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Post by jackgolding »

jen729w wrote: post #29

Unhappy in a relationship, stuck in the UK after a couple of glorious years working overseas. (I got real lucky in my early 20s.) At 27 – I'm cheating, sorry – I packed it all in and went on holiday. Backpacker style, South-East Asia then Australia. Some time later I found myself in Melbourne, and I'm still here. As a result, my career basically re-started. I'm now 41. It's worked out incredibly well. You have to enj…

In this highly connected social media world - wouldn't you say people chase the whole idea of backpacking/nomading in Asia?

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Post by dsgrillo »

I'm 25. In the last year, after dating for 2 months (with a person that I knew for more than 15yrs), we married and decided to move into Italy, without much planning. I had a great job in Brazil, since 2010, and they let me keep working remote.

We struggled a little to live in Europe with only my salary from Brazil, but in general, I'd said that its being an incredible experience. We are traveling a lot!

After the bureaucracy to get the visa here, I've found a nice job in a start up and I've been working here for 3 months now. My wife also found a job as a engineer.

Now, things are becoming more stable and hopefully soon we are buying a car. Although, I don't expect to become rich anytime soon.

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Post by laurieg »

My advice to my 25-year-old self: Focus on your career NOW. It might seem fun to be footloose and fancy free but the stress of being in poor finances in the future will cut you down.

Get a good job. Move for it. Anywhere. Don't worry about friends/relationships at this point.

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Post by orcs »

At 25 I was in Iraq about to leave the army because my now ex-girlfriend was pregnant with my first child.

I had no 'civi street' skills and no job prospects, only wished to bring up my unborn baby, actually be there; with all my limbs.

Up to that point I had drifted through life with no plans and only joined the army because I lacked the skills or qualifications to do anything else.

I'm still drifting through, doing what I need to survive. I can't offer anything by way of advice. I had no idea what I wanted to do while at school or after. Being poor growing up meant I didn't touch a computer until I was about 24; having not grown up with them I never bothered with them. I was given at that time a second hand laptop and that was it for me, I was fascinated, I just wanted to understand how 1s and 0s could do what I was seeing.

Working on a degree at the moment so I can, hopefully, do something I'm actually interested in at some point in my life.

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Post by rohit2412 »

o2l wrote: post #115

I am 25 now. Until 3 years ago, my dream was to become really good at computer science, move to the US and join Google. I have always had interest in ancient history so I tried to look more into Indian ancient history since I am Indian. I sincerely tried to understand the oldest scriptures which I could find which led me to commentaries & books written by people ranging from millennia old to present living and surpri…

What scriptures or other ancient texts (even scientific ones) did you read? Does one need to learn Sanskrit/Brahmi for it? Can you suggest some good one? I have been thinking of reading arthashastra sometime, any opinion on it?

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Post by Malagasy »

uptownfunk wrote: post #119

Don’t worry about girlfriends/boyfriends, focus on yourself. Plenty of time for it later. Put energy into: Being fit Building your creds (either a big name firm or prestigious degrees) in case you fail at the next step And then jump into a startup if you are so inclined, or just keep climbing the ladder at a nice company. Studying whatever you like for the hell of it Learn a language and travel somewhere, drink coffe…

> Don’t worry about girlfriends/boyfriends, focus on yourself

I am 23 and I have been focusing on coding/studying over the last 3 years since I broke up with my now ex-gf. Now I believe I will have a promising developer career but I feel disconnected to people as I'm not used to hang out anymore (except w/ my friends) and enjoy small talks..

I have recently discovered personal development and I'm getting over that step by step but it was a harsh time.

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Post by danieltillett »

0x4f3759df wrote: post #48

Advice to my younger self: Get really fit. Like do upside-down-handstand-push-ups fit. Fitness is an easy way to get status that requires essentially no luck. Women are attracted to high status individuals. It shows you are a hard worker, a trait that people respect. It gives you energy and health, and is much more fun than being on a computer. Family advice: life after 40 for most people is about family and the chil…

As some who was really fit at 25 it is probably the thing I miss most now. I would like to try and get back to this level, but I just don't have the time.

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Post by Ftuuky »

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,

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Post by estilos »

I'm 30. 5 years ago I had just quit a job I hated and moved internationally to work in another industry for a while.

Advice: quit faster. I've got a hang of it now, but quitting (relationships, jobs, hobbies) that are getting you down is the best.

I've learned quite fast (only started working in industry at 23) what jobs I like and don't like, been involved in 2 startups (didn't quit those - they just didn't work out), and am now a manager in a job that lets me work on my startups in my ample free time. I also own my own home, and have a really sweet girlfriend.

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