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Don’t look at job adverts. Figure out what interests you. Find people who do that. Figure out how they got there and how you yourself can get in the same positi
by krisoft 4y ago
Don’t look at job adverts. Figure out what interests you. Find people who do that. Figure out how they got there and how you yourself can get in the same position.
> It honestly makes me feel like my skills and time are being wasted.
Stop wasting them then. Hint: work is not necessarily the thing which will scratch that itch. If after plenty of introspection, and trial and error you find that the kind of things which make you happy don’t pay enough, then you can try thinking about your work as the thing which you do to support what interests you.
- uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y agoThat's pretty much where I currently am. "easy" job, the rest of my free time is spent on open source side projects. But it's just not a great feeling to be paid to make nothing useful, and to have so much of my life be effectively wasted time.
- 082349872349872 4y agoEinstein worked at the patent office while coming up with relativity. Aristotle charged big drachmas for tutoring Alexander. It may not be the dream, but there are undoubtedly many more examples of people who managed to roll the peanut of humanity a bit forward despite doing something else to pay the bills.
- cevica 4y agokrisoft, you are spot on with trying to change one's perspective on viewing your current work differently. I find interesting initiatives to work on the side at Mozilla- Foundation (&Mozilla Corporation for paid work) : https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-you-can-do/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-you-can-do/