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Vouched because it's a legitimate response. "Suck it up" is a totally valid response to "I'm soooo successful but I'm just _booooreeeddddddd_." "Get an executi

Vouched because it's a legitimate response. "Suck it up" is a totally valid response to "I'm soooo successful but I'm just _booooreeeddddddd_." "Get an executive coach" is a useful option as well.

throwanem 9y ago
Sounds to me like the man just needs someone to care for a little while, and maybe a chance to look at the world from a perspective not so intimately bound up with his troubles that he can't see past them any more. I know - who else in the world could ever empathize with that, right? Again, I get that it's a lot easier and more fun, especially on the Internet where no one seems quite real, just to be a contemptuous asshole about it than to try to be a little kind. I've been that way myself at times, and always been ashamed of it afterward - and rightly so, I think. How you react to your own unworthy behavior is your problem, of course, not mine. But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way?
- Domenic_S 9y ago
  It's not really easy or fun, because you often end up with white knights swarming you. He didn't say anything that you didn't say, he just used fewer words. Your original comment: > if I had a serious prospect of ending up with genuine fuck-you money, and all I had to do to get it was keep doing what I was already doing and gut it out for a few more years, then that is precisely what I would do In short: suck it up. You used more flowery language and a perhaps gentler delivery, but your message is the same. > But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way? I'm of the opinion that a lot of people should be told to suck it up a lot more than they're being told today. My close friends and I often tell each other to suck it up, or equivalent, and it's not being contemptuous -- it's, for us, a reminder that life is actually pretty good and these are first-world problems. The OP's phrasing, "I don't want to be a founder anymore", seems especially egregious for this forum. Not "I'm burnt out", or "how do you keep pressing on?", but "My successful startup is being bought and I don't want to be a founder any more". It would be like visiting a forum for college-aged NBA hopefuls and posting, "I'm about to sign a contract worth millions with the Kings but I don't want to be a professional basketball player anymore". It's almost intentionally crafted to be inflammatory.
  - throwanem 9y ago
    I gather you have a lot of opinions. One wonders how well, or how often, you're able to see past them.
    - Domenic_S 9y ago
      lol k
    - hitekker 9y ago
      I've always found it interesting how the people who enjoy berating the need are always silent when their newfound victims decide life is no longer worth living. The mentality of the misshapen, I suppose.

Vouched because it's a legitimate response. "Suck it up" is a totally valid response to "I'm soooo successful but I'm just _booooreeeddddddd_." "Get an executive coach" is a useful option as well.

throwanem 9y ago

Sounds to me like the man just needs someone to care for a little while, and maybe a chance to look at the world from a perspective not so intimately bound up with his troubles that he can't see past them any more. I know - who else in the world could ever empathize with that, right? Again, I get that it's a lot easier and more fun, especially on the Internet where no one seems quite real, just to be a contemptuous asshole about it than to try to be a little kind. I've been that way myself at times, and always been ashamed of it afterward - and rightly so, I think. How you react to your own unworthy behavior is your problem, of course, not mine. But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way?

Domenic_S 9y ago
It's not really easy or fun, because you often end up with white knights swarming you. He didn't say anything that you didn't say, he just used fewer words. Your original comment: > if I had a serious prospect of ending up with genuine fuck-you money, and all I had to do to get it was keep doing what I was already doing and gut it out for a few more years, then that is precisely what I would do In short: suck it up. You used more flowery language and a perhaps gentler delivery, but your message is the same. > But whom, really, do you imagine it helping, to choose to act this way? I'm of the opinion that a lot of people should be told to suck it up a lot more than they're being told today. My close friends and I often tell each other to suck it up, or equivalent, and it's not being contemptuous -- it's, for us, a reminder that life is actually pretty good and these are first-world problems. The OP's phrasing, "I don't want to be a founder anymore", seems especially egregious for this forum. Not "I'm burnt out", or "how do you keep pressing on?", but "My successful startup is being bought and I don't want to be a founder any more". It would be like visiting a forum for college-aged NBA hopefuls and posting, "I'm about to sign a contract worth millions with the Kings but I don't want to be a professional basketball player anymore". It's almost intentionally crafted to be inflammatory.
- throwanem 9y ago
  I gather you have a lot of opinions. One wonders how well, or how often, you're able to see past them.
  - Domenic_S 9y ago
    lol k
  - hitekker 9y ago
    I've always found it interesting how the people who enjoy berating the need are always silent when their newfound victims decide life is no longer worth living. The mentality of the misshapen, I suppose.