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Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#421-. Leave my poor country, as i feel it keeps me from reaching superior goals.
2-. Study abroad
3-. Work for a company that makes people's lives easier
4-. Learn everything to replicate these ideas on my own country.
5-. Return to my country, help people in any way possible using what i've learned. Make the world a bit better and reduce some suffering.
I'm 25 years old and still at step 1, but I know I will make it happen.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#43For me: work, life, family, everything is built on these foundations (albeit imperfectly): Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8 ESV)
If I was created in God's image, then my goal must necessarily be to create life in my image.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#441-. Leave my poor country, as i feel it keeps me from reaching superior goals. 2-. Study abroad 3-. Work for a company that makes people's lives easier 4-. Learn everything to replicate these ideas on my own country. 5-. Return to my country, help people in any way possible using what i've learned. Make the world a bit better and reduce some suffering. I'm 25 years old and still at step 1, but I know I will make it h…
Just curious, what country are you from?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#45To contribute something meaningful that I see being used by people daily. An example will be fixing my favorite tool in the ecosystem that is used by a lot of people and seeing my patch hit stable making life a lot easier. It makes sense for me to contribute more and also to value the work of others that I get to use in the first place.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#46I feel that we're alive at a unique moment in human history, when humanity must either "figure out" how to live sustainably on a finite planet or suffer the consequences. It's a daunting but wonderful challenge. I can't imagine living at this time and not being part of this project.
For the past (almost) 15 years, contributing in some way to this project has been my "mission". In that time, I've experienced the highs of having an important purpose; and the lows of not achieving enough; and burnout.
After having worked on various projects (climate, ecological footprint, bikes, etc.), I've come to be focused on one aspect that has particular resonance for me: biodiversity conservation. This blends my higher (intellectually motivated) purpose with my selfish desire to enjoy and preserve what I love most in the world. I find this combination is the most sustainable for me personally.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#47Would you say it's possible to use computational modeling to derive a sociopolitical belief system that won't inevitably degenerate into inequality and war? If it's not purely fantastical, it's something I might want to try my hand at...
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#48I live in a country (Italy) that has been crushed and whatever mission I might’ve ever had or sense of accomplishment I might’ve ever earned has been superseded by a never-ending sense of dread and struggle to not drown in a decaying world. I have very little time for glib self-improvement or self-coaching. I’m starting to wonder what purpose all of this could possibly serve (”none at all”, comes my self-reply).
I'm not Italian, but I love the country and have Italian cousins. These things surprised me:
1. The need for licenses to build anything. I seem to recall the figure of 100,000 euros licence to open a small chemist.
2. The need of support from the local big families for your business to thrive, ie you need to be anointed to make it.
3. The cost of housing relative to income. Who the fuck owns all the housing.
I feel sad for Italians, they are some of the best people I know.
For the Americans reading, young Italians have not been dispirited by socialism, but by rampant crony capitalism.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#49My missions are as follows:
- Work: Create profitable businesses that enable my teams to have healthy life-work balance with 35 hour work weeks and 6 weeks vacation so that they have time for family, adventure, positive mental health and time to perhaps start their own businesses.
- Life: Be a great father, husband and to travel to over 100 countries. Do things that make the word a better place.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
#50My mission is to breakdown barriers and level the playing field by allowing people to leverage the huge amount of knowledge we have available today to understand the world and subsequently tinker with abstraction. I want to help people make the jump from "rookie" to somebody who understands abstraction and can look past it, as smoothly as possible. You'd be surprised what we can do as a species if everybody could und…
How are you planning to do it?