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You are a lucky one, because at that time to your interests in computing would lead to job opportunities. I’m afraid it is not so with an iPhone. Our phones ta

You are a lucky one, because at that time to your interests in computing would lead to job opportunities. I’m afraid it is not so with an iPhone. Our phones take without giving. Now excuse me I should probably log off and do something useful.

kemayo 6y ago
My daughter has learned a lot about video editing, having fallen into the "Gatcha Life" community. It's a legitimate life skill.
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  > It's a legitimate life skill. ...this month, maybe this year, until the next fad hits the 'net and all those influency types need to adapt or exit.
  - boomfus 6y ago
    Video editing has nothing to do with being an influencer lol. That is a very transferrable skill to a lot of industries.
    - Turing_Machine 6y ago
      It's worth learning anyway, even just to help one's family videos not be so damned boring and amateurish. Not everything has to be directly related to employment. It's nice to know how to cook a meal, even if you have absolutely no ambition to work in a restaurant.
    - ed25519FUUU 6y ago
      Video editing is a useful skill in exactly one industry...
      - AnimalMuppet 6y ago
        Television news? Hollywood movies? Video games? Corporate presentations? Online schooling? Which is your "exactly one industry"?
      - imtringued 6y ago
        So is software development, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Or basically every profession ever.
buzzerbetrayed 6y ago
> my dad couldn't realise that there was a rising future in gaming as an industry or the internet, because it was so far removed from his traditional roots Why are you so convinced this sentence isn't going to describe you in 20 years?
pwinnski 6y ago
The head of technical support at the company for which I work recently quit her job to support her husband's streaming career. He makes in three months more than I do in a year. This idea that things like iPhones, or video games, or any other piece of technology cannot possibly be productive or profitable in the future, it's got to die. When I was young, my passion for computers meant I wouldn't become the lawyer people suggested I should be, but now I make more than most of my lawyer friends. Things change, and "using an iPhone" may end up being the key to future happiness, career opportunities, or who knows what?
- floren 6y ago
  > The head of technical support at the company for which I work recently quit her job to support her husband's streaming career. He makes in three months more than I do in a year. For every one of those, there are hundreds of streamers who quit their jobs to focus on streaming but ended up broke, and thousands of streamers who spend every free moment outside of their day job trying to build a following but never get there. The old dream of rock stardom, well, you get a guitar and figure out that it's actually hard and maybe you shelve that. Streaming... anybody can play Minecraft, so you can keep the dream alive a lot longer.
  - pwinnski 6y ago
    Sure, but I'm not saying "everybody should try streaming for a living." I'm saying it's not true that kids using iPhones is always a dead-end timesuck.
    - RonanTheGrey 6y ago
      You're taking one example and generalizing it. I'm sure someone did something productive with cocaine once too, but that's not generally its outcome. (just a random example that occurs to me, I do not agree with the "War on some drugs" btw it was just an example)
      - pwinnski 6y ago

kemayo 6y ago

My daughter has learned a lot about video editing, having fallen into the "Gatcha Life" community. It's a legitimate life skill.

Yetanfou 6y ago
> It's a legitimate life skill. ...this month, maybe this year, until the next fad hits the 'net and all those influency types need to adapt or exit.
- boomfus 6y ago
  Video editing has nothing to do with being an influencer lol. That is a very transferrable skill to a lot of industries.
  - Turing_Machine 6y ago
    It's worth learning anyway, even just to help one's family videos not be so damned boring and amateurish. Not everything has to be directly related to employment. It's nice to know how to cook a meal, even if you have absolutely no ambition to work in a restaurant.
  - ed25519FUUU 6y ago
    Video editing is a useful skill in exactly one industry...
    - AnimalMuppet 6y ago
      Television news? Hollywood movies? Video games? Corporate presentations? Online schooling? Which is your "exactly one industry"?
    - imtringued 6y ago
      So is software development, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Or basically every profession ever.

buzzerbetrayed 6y ago

> my dad couldn't realise that there was a rising future in gaming as an industry or the internet, because it was so far removed from his traditional roots Why are you so convinced this sentence isn't going to describe you in 20 years?

pwinnski 6y ago

The head of technical support at the company for which I work recently quit her job to support her husband's streaming career. He makes in three months more than I do in a year. This idea that things like iPhones, or video games, or any other piece of technology cannot possibly be productive or profitable in the future, it's got to die. When I was young, my passion for computers meant I wouldn't become the lawyer people suggested I should be, but now I make more than most of my lawyer friends. Things change, and "using an iPhone" may end up being the key to future happiness, career opportunities, or who knows what?

floren 6y ago
> The head of technical support at the company for which I work recently quit her job to support her husband's streaming career. He makes in three months more than I do in a year. For every one of those, there are hundreds of streamers who quit their jobs to focus on streaming but ended up broke, and thousands of streamers who spend every free moment outside of their day job trying to build a following but never get there. The old dream of rock stardom, well, you get a guitar and figure out that it's actually hard and maybe you shelve that. Streaming... anybody can play Minecraft, so you can keep the dream alive a lot longer.
- pwinnski 6y ago
  Sure, but I'm not saying "everybody should try streaming for a living." I'm saying it's not true that kids using iPhones is always a dead-end timesuck.
  - RonanTheGrey 6y ago
    You're taking one example and generalizing it. I'm sure someone did something productive with cocaine once too, but that's not generally its outcome. (just a random example that occurs to me, I do not agree with the "War on some drugs" btw it was just an example)
    - pwinnski 6y ago