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So my first job after high school was a start-up where the founder had three kids, ranging from about 5 to 12. He worked pretty much all the time, but on the weekends he'd come in wearing flip flops with one kid or another who would sit quietly playing for a few hours before mom came to take them home. Nobody ever complained nor were they anywhere close to the biggest distraction in the office.

I remember him once telling me to properly install the IEC receptacle in some equipment I was building, because "(5 y/o) is going to be helping me plug and unplug stuff when we do field tests."



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