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Einstein was working in a patent office because he had trouble finding any work related to what he liked doing after his applications for various professorships
by fartsucker69 4y ago
Einstein was working in a patent office because he had trouble finding any work related to what he liked doing after his applications for various professorships at research universities failed.
A full time phycisist already tends to work a lot of overtime hours to get anything done, while already doing that as their main fulltime job activity, so with 100% certainty Einstein grinded like a madman in afterwork hours to do his actual research. This is also why he quit that patent office job as soon as he was able to.
Not to criticize your approach. genuine 0.1x programmers allow 10x (aka 1x) programmers to exist and get a lot of money doing a normal job.
- namaria 4y agoThis whole 'grind' narrative is construed as a distraction. "Stay busy. Don't raise your head. If you're not to exhausted to have an original thought you don't deserve to be fed and housed." This is some perverse manipulation. You should not conflate focus and effort with physical busy work. Grind means literally to wear down physically. Theoretical physicists don't 'grind' by any stretch of the imagination. People should absolutely be allowed to be comfortable, free of immediate concerns with acquiring resources to survive. As OP puts it, 'freed from societies expectations of sweat, tears and busy work' Arguing against this right is drinking the elite's cool aid. If you don't profit from exploiting the working class, you shouldn't see a problem with setting them free.
- Aleksdev 4y agoNobody said you don’t deserve to be fed if your not the greatest programmer of all time. Your skills should always be improving. Technology moves fast and so should you.