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Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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giantg2 wrote: post #40
226_ebro_treaty wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand. Hope you make it through your current difficult situation, and get to a better place. Wish you the best of luck! I just wanted to point out that to consider yourself a failure because you're "only" making 100k is a bit ridiculous. Going by that metric, 99% of the world's population is a failure. You're not a failure. You've just fallen through some hard times. Try your best, and you'll be out of them so…

"you're "only" making 100k is a bit ridiculous. Going by that metric, 99% of the world's population is a failure." Ok, I'll put it a different way - houshold income is below the 50th percentile for the area. So by that measure, 50% of the world population is doing better than I am on a location-based relative measure.

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Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by _fvh3 »

giantg2 wrote: post #31

I'm a failure. I didn't live up to my potential. I'm lazy. Nothing I do works anymore. My career is in jeopardy because I'm "slow". My main cause would be naivete. I believed all the stuff you're taught about the world in schools, by parents, etc. I believed the company when they told me stuff like they don't outsource or layoff. I'm wasn't aggressive enough to go after promotions or switch jobs. This resulted in me…

Thank you for sharing your situation

If you don't mind me asking, are you the only person in your household with a significant income & do you live in a country with social services for childcare?

Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by _fvh3 »

codevark wrote: post #4

In the late '90s, we were Amazon before Amazon knew what it was doing. Now I work in IT for a private college. Pay sucks, benefits are great. I tell a lot of stories to the young folks.

What do you think was the factor that prevented you from becoming Amazon?

Thanks for posting

Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by _fvh3 »

temp20230425 wrote: post #42

I'm 30 and this is my situation: - I have health issues that decrease my quality of life and leads to embarrassment. I can't work an in-person job anymore. - I work freelance but have one client, and they're an miser - very tight with cash, so I barely meet my minimum needed income to cover expenses and save a little. - Because of the above, I have been stuck in a very poor apartment for the last 8 months. Water leak…

Do you think you could still enter the job market working something like a part time job to prevent burnout? Its quite refreshing to hear a realistic situation of freelancing, so thanks for posting.

I know something like THC or drugs will be my downfall in life, I have a very addictive personality and often cannot escape addiction of any kind

Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by _fvh3 »

xupybd wrote: post #45
giantg2 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I might not be making it much longer with my bad ratings. Plus, it's not a lot for supporting a family (lower cost areas would be different).

One job that is a bad fit does not define you. You are probably not as bad as you think. This might not be the job that best suites you. Don't give up.

From an outside perspective OP sound really pretentious and a show off, though I think he is mischaracterising failure as a "missed goal"

Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by aizyuval »

xupybd wrote: post #44
aizyuval wrote: post #39

Im 18 yo, trying to understand this world and myself. I started a venture last year, which I was crazy about as my first. A few months didn’t pass by until I got noticed that my so-called friend so-called “partner” has been cheating me and frauding me. The product sucked and I seemed to be (unintentionally) screwing my customers. I should have checked my partners more closely and also the product. Looking back, I don…

If you're 18 you are too young to have failed. It sounds like you're doing very well for someone of your age. Most haven't tried to launch a product at 18.

It did feel like a big, stupid failure, but you’re right. Thanks for the words.

Re: Ask HN: Are You a Failure?

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Post by _fvh3 »

sph wrote: post #22

Having a failed business or career != being a failure. Every successful person has failed at something, until they succeeded. That's how it works. The premise of this post is very shaky.

Honestly I wrote the title just for clickbait, people in turn interpreted the post as if I was asking if "they were a failure", though I was really asking if they had a failed business or career. Unfortunately, I cannot edit post titles.
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