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What a crock of crap. "Don't be ambitious: be mediocre and replaceable." He's right. Don't try to be a youtube star or a professional athlete, or an actor. Do

What a crock of crap. "Don't be ambitious: be mediocre and replaceable." He's right. Don't try to be a youtube star or a professional athlete, or an actor. Do something realistic. But I mean... do something ambitious for god's sake! Be an accountant! Be a doctor! Be a computer programmer! Hell: Be a lawyer. These are not crazy pipe dreams. Lets say someone makes $120k as a programmer a year taking out NO debt, and having NO risk invested in the company they work for. That is a damn healthy small business.

corndoge 9y ago
being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures doing exactly the programming I always wanted to do and more. I am already bored of what can be done with computers and the entire tech culture that I grew up in and loved. it is so repetitive.
- mnm1 9y ago
  So are most other jobs that pay a fraction of what programming pays. When I think of that, I'm still willing to put up with all the repetitiveness, bullshit, and literal pain of programming. Jobs suck. Otherwise they wouldn't be jobs.
- brookside 9y ago
  Join the financial independence movement. Spend little and save much, and with a programmer salary you can not have to work again in a few short years. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
- neffy 9y ago
  A lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from getting bogged down by the job.
  - corndoge 9y ago
    I work on gpl'd systems software that is very relevant to my interests but I look to the future and can't see myself doing this for many more years, software as a whole is just so depressingly mundane
- Clubber 9y ago
  Business processes are what make it that way for me. I'd still rather do that than be an accountant or salesman or something.

corndoge 9y ago

being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures doing exactly the programming I always wanted to do and more. I am already bored of what can be done with computers and the entire tech culture that I grew up in and loved. it is so repetitive.

mnm1 9y ago
So are most other jobs that pay a fraction of what programming pays. When I think of that, I'm still willing to put up with all the repetitiveness, bullshit, and literal pain of programming. Jobs suck. Otherwise they wouldn't be jobs.
brookside 9y ago
Join the financial independence movement. Spend little and save much, and with a programmer salary you can not have to work again in a few short years. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
neffy 9y ago
A lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from getting bogged down by the job.
- corndoge 9y ago
  I work on gpl'd systems software that is very relevant to my interests but I look to the future and can't see myself doing this for many more years, software as a whole is just so depressingly mundane
Clubber 9y ago
Business processes are what make it that way for me. I'd still rather do that than be an accountant or salesman or something.