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Re: I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

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Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 10:01 PM UTC

positr0n wrote: post #458

skinnymuch wrote: post #315

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When people use FAANG in these discussions. Is it literally those five companies and a handful of other high end growth companies (Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla?)? The number still being single digit. Or is it representing a handful more companies than fhat?

To me it can have a few meanings based on context, which I'm sure everyone has their own interpretation ha. Sometimes it means "giant influential tech companies" in which case you could make a good case that Netflix doesn't belong and some others could be added. In a career focused context like this I interpret it as "any tech company where most devs easily earn $300k+". So the original FANG plus a bunch of others, i…

Yeah the last paragraph is what I was thinking when I asked.

For sure Netflix doesn’t belong. Meta doesn’t either as of end of 2021 if it’s also about growth alongside influential. Tesla, Nvidia slide in perfectly.

Then there’s a sizable tail end of $100B+ companies and many under $75B with growth potential. AMD, PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, for $100B ones. Square, Atlassian, Datadog, Cloudflare, some cybersecurity firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, would fit in too. These are too small right now though.

Re: I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

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Post by Tcepsa » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:12 AM UTC

heyitsanewacco wrote: post #371

Tcepsa wrote: post #341

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Definitely have been struggling with stuff along these lines since my late 20s or so. It's been kind of like a revelation-onion, slowly peeling back the layers of expectations from myself and from others and realizing "Hey maybe I don't have to try to keep up with the media that everyone else is watching," and "Oh, if I want I really can pursue !" and developing into "You know, maybe this managerial track really isn'…

Do it. If quiet introversion is your thing then I think you've got a good plan. You don't have to be a Manager, and you don't have to be rich. Focus on being happy instead.

Thanks! So far so good, though the packing up to move is taking longer than I'd like ;-)

Re: I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

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Post by Tcepsa » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:25 AM UTC

supertofu wrote: post #382

Tcepsa wrote: post #341

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Definitely have been struggling with stuff along these lines since my late 20s or so. It's been kind of like a revelation-onion, slowly peeling back the layers of expectations from myself and from others and realizing "Hey maybe I don't have to try to keep up with the media that everyone else is watching," and "Oh, if I want I really can pursue !" and developing into "You know, maybe this managerial track really isn'…

My only life's goal is to become a hermit in the woods. Hopefully by the time I hit 45 I'll have saved enough to retire, uninstall VS Code forever, and enjoy the woods for the rest of my life :)

Best of luck with that! I'm a little too close to 45 for that to be likely to work for me, but in the meantime I am pursuing working arrangements that are more sustainable and fulfilling!

Re: I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

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Post by krageon » Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 12:46 PM UTC

slothtrop wrote: post #435

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You are describing a paid friend. That is indeed vapid and baseless. Therapy is something you seek for meaningful long-term change in an area of your life that you see as an impediment to living. All health care is (or should be) focused on that question: What do you see as a problem. If your therapist just wants to sit down to listen to you vent for an hour and asks for $100 for it, find a new therapist. Preferably…

I am describing what it indeed often becomes, but even clients who describe it as such may still care to pay for the privilege. Ethics aside there's no rigorous standardized approach for general psychotherapy. A therapist can draw from any direction. If seeing a therapist is to be maintained indefinitely, then it's not triggering meaningful long-term change. You can't chalk up a problem of this scale to a matter of e…

> You can't chalk up a problem of this scale to a matter of education.

Why can't I do that? It seems to me that if different countries have much better generalised psychotherapy results, I can absolutely ascribe that difference to education.