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Your priorities are messed up my dude. Work to live, not live to work. We all end up in the dirt either way.

• JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Right. And a right attitude toward work is critical. If there's any mental health issue, it stems from the cognitive dissonance of believing a counter job should be like chatting with your friends and hanging out with cool people. Instead of dealing with a sometimes-difficult public for the purpose of moving coffee (or whatever). Understand what you're doing, and doing it right, can be very satisfying.
  • wayoutthere 6y ago
    The "right" attitude? Why is your attitude necessarily the right one? HN is an anomaly in my experience; people outside the tech world mostly hate their jobs and put in juuuust enough effort to not get fired. Millennials (and younger) have largely abandoned capitalism. The only way to win a game that's stacked against you is to not play. Shit's gonna get real weird in the next couple decades.
    • JoeAltmaier 6y ago
      Being paid to move coffee, to coffee-deprived people, is where we started. Taking the money and not doing that, is something like fraud. Make all the meta-argument you like (Capitalism! Stacked!) That's substantially moving the goalposts. Feel free to have that conversation, but its a big left-turn from where we started here.