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Life is a lottery. I had the opportunity to take a job as lead programmer at a dot com that ended up becoming one of the biggest entertainment companies of the
by dpcan 7y ago
Life is a lottery.
I had the opportunity to take a job as lead programmer at a dot com that ended up becoming one of the biggest entertainment companies of the early 2000's and I passed for a job at a company that went bust in 6 months.
The only lesson I got from this post is one I already know - don't regret your decisions because you can't see the damn future.
- Apocryphon 7y agoThe butterfly effect is also worth considering. There’s no telling that the current outcome is inevitable if you had chosen to participate.
- cryptica 7y ago>> There’s no telling that the current outcome is inevitable if you had chosen to participate. True. Judging from the author's terrible decision-making abilities, the company would probably have gone belly up before it got to series A if the author had joined sooner as a director.
- friendlybus 7y agoGoing into the unknown can be guided by things other than luck and randomness. Did you figure out why you chose what you did?