Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?
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Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?
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#2As I roll up on 40, I think it's a bit late to ask this question.
Every day is a new day, though. Just because I did it yesterday doesn't mean I have to continue with the same tomorrow!
... unless I want to keep my house ...
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#3Look at it this way, you can always be a manager.
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#4It would be nice to have that kind of job security.
The key is to write a program that steals fractions of pennies from the company over time so you can retire early. If a disgruntled employee burns the building down, covering your tracks in the process, so much the better.
I wonder if the person in the article was aware they were nearly quoting the protagonist of Office Space?
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#5nope.
I used to say: "40! ha, i'm going to buy motorcycles and fast cars and eat badly and drink too much and have dangerous hobbies and hopefully die young before i get old like you 40 year old geezers."
then I had kids and that kinda doesn't work now. so now, sadly yes. I don't want to be doing this at 50 or 60 or 70 or ...
now go give your dad a hug
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#7Hopefully as you get older you naturally become less hands on and more "bigger picture" tech lead or architect.
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#8nope. I used to say: "40! ha, i'm going to buy motorcycles and fast cars and eat badly and drink too much and have dangerous hobbies and hopefully die young before i get old like you 40 year old geezers." then I had kids and that kinda doesn't work now. so now, sadly yes. I don't want to be doing this at 50 or 60 or 70 or ... now go give your dad a hug
I used to say the exact same thing!
I don't have any kids yet, but once it became clear my body wasn't what it used to be, I stopped feeling invincible and realized it sucks to be trapped in a messed up body.
This helped to reduce the poor decisions. You just don't know how long you might last.