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What should I do with my life?

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Re: What should I do with my life?

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Set your main goal in life to "Share that knowledge". 29 is stupidly young to be a mentor, but it's a great moment to start working on helping others in your field of expertise. I think HN is not a place for that kind of posts. It's a place for people like you to post about their incentives to help the world (and succeed in the process), thanks to what they achieved in their field of expertise. Otherwise, just open a…

Thank you, best advice so far. I find I am slightly lacking in soft skills/mentoring skills. I mostly come across as edgy on first meetings which scares some people off- it is related to my cultural background where smiling is only done for a reason, not as a courtesy. However people which have known me for more than a few days find that I am quite friendly/useful. Where do you think I should start? How do you think…

There are many ways to share knowledge.

The most obvious would be "write a blog". But to be honnest, you may as well use your knowledge in the process of building a tool to share it :)

Here comes the engineer approach : List your knowledge, structure it, and think about how people would like to get access to what you have to offer. You might come pretty close to what Khan has done with http://www.khanacademy.org/

Feel free to contact me (nsebban at google's mail thingie) if you want to talk about this topic in more details...

Re: What should I do with my life?

#32
post #24

well, for a start read the Big Kahuna epilogue, simple with a touch of humor http://www.makemagic.gr/node/312

While I appreciate the comment (I'm a fan of that essay too), I think you should read it in full, as written by Mary Schmich: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

Thanks, now mentioned.

Re: What should I do with my life?

#33
listen, OK, here is my story, 10 cent version, way back in 1985 or so, sorry if it is a little hazy, I was developing GUI for network management systems for a Big Blue type company. I interviewed with this rinky dink company in, what was then, HQ'ed in Bellevue WA (now they are in Redmond), to work on their top secret "windows" project. Wow, what a POS that thing was at the time. They offered me $10K/yr less than what I was making at the time and this fantastic stock option plan. But hey; all they had going for them at the time was DOS and this crappy windows where the windows could not overlap, wow. They did not stand a chance against Apple who was way ahead of them with the Mac. So I turned them down. That was the smart move on my part? OK, so the moral of the story is this, take chance when you are young, go for it, do what excites you. So what if you fail. Try it, do it, go for it. Do NOT stick with the cushy salary.

Re: What should I do with my life?

#34
well,this is my story. I am born in a rural place in China, and my family is poor, I have a elder sister and she leaved school after she finished high school, while I got a graduate degree. Last year I enter a big IC company, and do embedded system programming. However after less 1 year, I find I can't learn a lot from this job, what's worse I am not interest the job, so I quit last month and now I'm finding a new job.
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