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Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

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I'm 29 now and I feel so old... I feel like it's already too late to get really fit (I'm skinnyfat) or change careers. Despite having a bit interest in machine learning, I don't have the time or skills to keep improving and I'm stuck in mediocrity. Then I come here and read all these 25 year olds that beat me on every single metric I could conceive,

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

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AT 25 I was going nowhere, having dropped out of my expensive liberal arts college education and the ample financial provisions of my parents (my grades were good too, I just lost interest in normal life paths). So I worked menial jobs, learned to want cheap stuff (I have never had health insurance, 36 years and counting) and no doubt I did display antisocial behavior and talked wild crap. SO now I am almost sixty,an…

Thank you for your honest account. I hope you do find some happiness in this lifetime.

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#163

Well, this falls nicely into the "bucket of common experiences lots of people can talk about". :P Turning 25 in two-ish weeks. Currently just past my 3rd year at a FAANG after failing to figure out a "path more interesting than just a software job"* during college. Life isn't rainbows and unicorns, but I'm building a nest egg while figuring-out-what-I-acutually-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up, learning, and playing with pi…

I never thought about the negatives of open office areas.

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

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post #136
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+100 to fitness. Especially since its much easier to get fit when you're younger. Maintaining the same level of fitness is much much easier than having to achieve it later in life.

Do you think a 29 y'old skinnyfat is too late to get properly fit?

I started working out when I was 33 and I am in better shape now than I ever was including my teens and twenties. I can run for miles, lift for hour and half and hike for 12 hours straight. It's never too late.

I have read real world stories of people starting running at the age of 60+ and finishing marathons.

I urge you to get off your ass and embrace active lifestyle. You will not regret it.

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

#165

Well, this falls nicely into the "bucket of common experiences lots of people can talk about". :P Turning 25 in two-ish weeks. Currently just past my 3rd year at a FAANG after failing to figure out a "path more interesting than just a software job"* during college. Life isn't rainbows and unicorns, but I'm building a nest egg while figuring-out-what-I-acutually-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up, learning, and playing with pi…

I'd love to hear more about your experience as a mathlete, as someone whose bad at math trying to be decent at it, I'd love to know how you got good at math. What sorts of things did you do (aside from just spending a lot of time doing math).

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

#166

AT 25 I was going nowhere, having dropped out of my expensive liberal arts college education and the ample financial provisions of my parents (my grades were good too, I just lost interest in normal life paths). So I worked menial jobs, learned to want cheap stuff (I have never had health insurance, 36 years and counting) and no doubt I did display antisocial behavior and talked wild crap. SO now I am almost sixty,an…

Why did you post twice under two different throw aways?

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

#167
Working on my CS degree, working full time (or at least 20h per week) at the same time.

What would I change? Maybe try to be really frugal with my money and not work as much but get university done quicker. I might have only saved a year, maybe two, but still would've started working earlier full time for better conditions.

Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

#168
Well, I just got married that year with a daughter on a way that we didn't entirely plan.

My biggest advice would be along the lines:

* your parents love you, and you should ignore all of their well-meant advice, because it will bring you mostly stress

* bringing up a kind is hard, but awesome

* you and your wife will need both time together, and time apart

* rewiew where you are in life and where do you want to get

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Re: Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?

#170
Advice to younger self - take the boring Federal Government job and in 30 years you'll have a pension and can "retire" at 55 and do whatever you want - hobbies, travel, second career, ... You'll find out they call it "work" for a reason. I've had exciting and boring jobs - but at the end they all felt the same.
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