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> This process was short-circuited immediately for those of us who went into tech. It’s the new gold rush; you really can go west and seek your fortune. Remarka
by 6502nerdface 5y ago
> This process was short-circuited immediately for those of us who went into tech. It’s the new gold rush; you really can go west and seek your fortune. Remarkable times.
> it’s completely unfair to those still trapped in that life who weren’t lucky enough to adore computers.
I must confess that after being picked on throughout middle school and high school for being a nerd, I totally reveled in this observation well into my young adulthood. Revenge of the nerds, baby... the gentle computer geeks are the ones getting rich and living well in fabulous places, while the mean, popular kids never left the hometown and are worse off than their parents' generation.
Eventually I realized that this was still thinking like a kid.
- tibbar 5y agoIt’s funny how wildly off base my assessments of important life skills were as a kid (a fellow nerd, to be sure!) A world of ‘alphas’ where soccer skills and strategic bullying defined the social order. If you had told me that spending hundreds of hours dinking around on TI calculators was the real secret to future success, it would have just sounded so random. It’s like finding out that your collection of bottle caps you hoarded as a kid is now immensely valuable and assured you a life of wealth and access. So as much as I share the sense of catharsis, it does feel tremendously random and would have confused the heck out of teenaged me. :)