No matter how much I relate to the content, a New Yorker article about how unsuccessful the author is bound to come off a little... tone deaf?
It’s not an article, it’s satire. (Most of the commenters here seem to have missed the joke.)
I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
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What were you going to do with a million dollars?
It’s quite nice. You can live wherever you want, make your home just how you want it, have a variety of investments, and have your other half not have to work and raise the children and take care of a garden, etc. You can leave work as well to be even closer to the ones you love. It takes a lot of stress out of day to day living and you can really plan a future. All while being able to continue work you enjoy or swit…
Okay. So where are you gonna live? Do you have the blueprints for you new house? What are you investing in?
You didn't answer the question.
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It doesn't get easier, it just gets a different kind of difficult.
I generally agree with you (I have a six and a two year old), but the sleep deprivation when the kids are babies is extremely debilitating. At least that part definitely gets better.
Exactly that. I have a 1.5 year old. We've been pretty much zombies for the first half a year, until she started sleeping through (most of) the night.
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Where do such jobs exist?
I’d assume the parent comment is alluding to FAANG or some of the hotter software startups.
I'd be very surprised if most FAANG engineers aren't millionaires after 5-10 years. The caveat being that houses in the Bay Area cost a lot more than a million...
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#385Everyone here is reading this article as a cautionary tale on procrastination. To me it’s about the unrealistic expectations we place on ourselves. Maybe that’s due to our fake meritocratic society, or comparisons made on social media, or our parents expectations. I thought I’d be a millionaire by now, changing the world for the better, with a Wikipedia page and a yacht. But what I really want now is to put down the…
Absolutely agree. In some ways I've done more than I ever expected, and in other ways I feel like I'm behind. But comparing my current self to what I thought back when I was 20 doesn't really matter at all. All that matters is that I'm happy with my life as it is, and that I feel like I have enough influence over things in order to change the things I'm not happy about.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s quite nice. You can live wherever you want, make your home just how you want it, have a variety of investments, and have your other half not have to work and raise the children and take care of a garden, etc. You can leave work as well to be even closer to the ones you love. It takes a lot of stress out of day to day living and you can really plan a future. All while being able to continue work you enjoy or swit…
Okay. So where are you gonna live? Do you have the blueprints for you new house? What are you investing in? You didn't answer the question.
You don't have to already have blueprints for the house in order to want the million dollars. Once you get the million, then you have time to look at blueprints.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay. So where are you gonna live? Do you have the blueprints for you new house? What are you investing in? You didn't answer the question.
You don't have to already have blueprints for the house in order to want the million dollars. Once you get the million, then you have time to look at blueprints.
The dream is so far out of reach, it doesn't even exist. Yet we chase the money anyways. Thank you for explaining.
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#389I love life. I'm 37. Being alive in itself is truly remarkable. I've made great friends. I've met people who ended up disappointing me greatly. I've married a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman twelve years ago. We've went through exhilarating ups and soulcrushing downs. I've worked for a startup, which almost went under several times. I've worked for a corporate thresher which sucked life right out of me. I've worked…
Thank you, I really needed this.
Re: I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
#390I love life. I'm 37. Being alive in itself is truly remarkable. I've made great friends. I've met people who ended up disappointing me greatly. I've married a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman twelve years ago. We've went through exhilarating ups and soulcrushing downs. I've worked for a startup, which almost went under several times. I've worked for a corporate thresher which sucked life right out of me. I've worked…
This is the best thing I've read today. Thank you. :)
Thank you, I would love to read your perspective if you feel like sharing!