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All the folks in my peer group who followed their left-leaning parents mantra of doing something interesting, something that you love, got absolutely screwed. A
by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
All the folks in my peer group who followed their left-leaning parents mantra of doing something interesting, something that you love, got absolutely screwed. As much as I hate big tech, I cannot blame anyone for pursuing it.
- bombolo 3y agobeing a hipster and being a socialist aren't the same.
- rxhernandez 3y agoKinda hard to be either without being left-leaning
- flangola7 3y agoChud brohipsters are a very real thing.
- pixelatedindex 3y agoAnecdotally speaking, I don’t ever see myself being right-leaning because really, what do I have to conserve to be conservative? I don’t have much wealth, I can’t buy a house for the foreseeable future, I will be done paying off literally all my debt including student loan next year, I have a wife and no kids. So yeah… I just want to do what I like and screw making another person or company richer, they’ll be fine.
- astrange 3y agoIn a former communist country being a communist can be the conservative position. And in China being a communist is actually a kind of capitalist. Thanks Deng.
- ekianjo 3y agoMaybe but there is a very big overlap
- bombolo 3y agoone is about feeling morally superior to others, one is about helping others.
- BMorearty 3y agoI followed my left-leaning parents' advice to get paid for doing something I love. But luckily for me I love coding.
- adastra22 3y agoSame, lol. I love coding and startups. We hit the jackpot.
- infinite8s 3y agoWe did, didn't we? Sadly most intellectual loves aren't as monetarily rewarding as programming has been for the past three decades.
- kenjackson 3y agoHow did they get screwed? I feel like I kind of got screwed going into SW. I have friends who make 1/3 the money as athletic trainers, but just seem to love their life so much more. Maybe when we’re 60 things will change, but seems like a bad tradeoff.
- vl 3y agoThere are happier because their work is finite. They do athletic sessions, they are done, their time then is their own. As software dev/lead/manager/pm you are never done, there is always next thing to do. This why some devs become SREs - your shift is over, you are done.
- kenjackson 3y agoThat probably plays a factor.
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- Frog0fWar 3y agoI'm not sure about SREs - it probably depends on company, but where I work, if you aren't oncall, you develop projects similarly to a SWE - so you can still think about work after you clock out.
- astrange 3y agoOne reason devs work a lot more is that getting paid more causes you to work more, not less, because you miss out more by not working. (This is why two income families are a sign of high wages more than poverty. And that both of you have relatively equal earning power of course.)
- kristopolous 3y agoMy parents are on the far right. It was only after I ignored their rugged individualism Ayn Rand style beliefs that I got anywhere in life and now I'm doing fine. That's probably why I consider it to be such a scam. YMMV.
- lambdasquirrel 3y agoThe opposite of something that is not working is not necessarily something that is working.
- ohbleek 3y agoThe opposite of a useless comment is not necessarily an aphorism.
- kristopolous 3y agoMy point was more that following your dreams will get you to about the same place as gumption, hard work and keeping your head down. Instead you need to understand power dynamics, social arrangements, how to negotiate, things like that. For instance, your success as an artist in say the 1960s could come much easier if you spent your time becoming close friends with Peggy Guggenheim instead of working on your brush stroke. Next time you see a stupid startup get funded, go research who the founders are and invariably you'll find like, their parents are hedge fund managers. Now you could call me a cynic, complain it's unfair, or you could go out and meet some hedge fund managers with your time (this option works the best!)
- Tade0 3y agoSounds more like a generational thing than anything connected with political affiliation. In my corner of the world it's the economically conservative crowd that advocates this - assuming money will follow because that's what happened to some of them in the 90s, when we were fresh out of communism.