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Then why side income? If you're not going to worry about your career, why worry about side income?
The point is by the time you reach mid 40s, ensure you don't have to depend on a salary to run a family.
Related: Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722803 - July 2020 (52 comments) Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15989599 - Dec 2017 (28 comments) Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11747598 - May 2016 (20 comments) Lessons I wish I had been Taught - https://news.ycombin…
>>10 Be prepared for old age Like my dad adviced me. As you age worry only about four things: Health, Relationships, Side income and Free time. Forget about career, accolades, titles, awards or recognitions, nothing is really remembered in this world where kids can't remember their parent's birthday or what they had in dinner yesterday.
Related: Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722803 - July 2020 (52 comments) Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15989599 - Dec 2017 (28 comments) Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11747598 - May 2016 (20 comments) Lessons I wish I had been Taught - https://news.ycombin…
lol ppl keep submitting this. I knew what it was before even clicking the link.
(Playing HN on easy mode: grab almost any top story from a few years ago and repost it. It's not even bad if people are interested.)
> My late friend Stan Ulam used to remark that his life was sharply divided into two halves. In the first half, he was always the youngest person in the group; in the second half, he was always the oldest. There was no transitional period. Agree.
> Blackboard Technique Use Whiteboard. Worst teaching experiences in my life have featured blackboards. Ooh that scree of the chalk and the eraser that does no such thing. Mind you, I haVE bad experiences with whiteboards too, particulary when the previous user defaced the board with non-whiteboard markers
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point is by the time you reach mid 40s, ensure you don't have to depend on a salary to run a family.
What's the reasoning for this strategy? Is the idea that it's harder to retain a salary job if your older (I'm assuming because you are likely more expensive and a target for redundancy)?
This only works if you can afford it, of course.
>>10 Be prepared for old age Like my dad adviced me. As you age worry only about four things: Health, Relationships, Side income and Free time. Forget about career, accolades, titles, awards or recognitions, nothing is really remembered in this world where kids can't remember their parent's birthday or what they had in dinner yesterday.
If someone like Gian-Carlo Rota took the International Math Olympiad how well would he do? Would someone with a PhD in math and some published papers find it easy? Or do Olympiad problems require a separate technique to solve them efficiently compared to dissertations and papers. Olympiad problems seme to be heavy in combinatorics, symmetry, and 'tricks' to find ways to simply them.