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really? you expected all that? shit. all i ever wanted was a sports car and a decent apartment, and i have that after quite a bit of work. i've entertained
by beachstartup 11y ago
really? you expected all that? shit. all i ever wanted was a sports car and a decent apartment, and i have that after quite a bit of work. i've entertained the possibility of striking it big, but never expected it. it's still a goal i work toward but if i were to crash and burn tomorrow i'd probably just go find work on a boat somewhere tropical and warm.
- nugget 11y agoI can relate to his comment. In particular I have no idea how my parents (a young couple in the 80s) decided to have 3 kids, other than blind optimism or a sense of security that doesn't seem to exist for us today.
- ryandrake 11y agoHigh expectations, no grasp of statistics, and a total misunderstanding of just how much of a role luck plays in everyone's outcome. That was back when the first dot-com bubble was rapidly inflating, and it seemed that all you had to do was put in a few years at Netscape, Sun or SGI, and then go found a startup, and you'd be a guaranteed success. People really believed this! In reality, the job environment consisted of those few known companies plus this big spread of unknowns (much like today, actually, except back then they were actually hiring). Nobody knew which ones would go out of business, which ones would succeed, and which ones would mean Maseratis for their early employees. I mean nobody had a clue. If you graduated in Comp sci or Comp eng or EE, you basically just rolled the dice and picked one, and that ended up being the difference between doing astoundingly well and just putzing along after 20 years.
- itgoon 11y agoHeh. Yea, I remember all that. If you know how to spell "HTML", you were certain to be a billionaire by 30.