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Horrible advice: find a way to blend your work with your interests so that you no longer understand where your core work hours start and the obsessiveness begin
by tetris11 2y ago
Horrible advice: find a way to blend your work with your interests so that you no longer understand where your core work hours start and the obsessiveness begins. Do this for > 12 hours a day, every day, holidays included. Tell your loved ones that you're busy with work, and take small satisfaction that what you just said was half true. Develop an unhealthy addiction to liquid stimulants and spring out of bed every morning with a burning curiosity that wont abate until you've tripped over enough hurdles to crush your enthusiasm for a few hours. Rinse and repeat for a decade until you're no longer a jack of all trades, but a master of most. Try to convey your interests to those around you, and failing that, retreat to social media where you will attempt to spin these as career developing STAR moments. Accept the disappointment you will feel in knowing that no one will appreciate the efforts you went to in achieving this level of tedious mastery.
- tyre 2y agoDude are you okay?
- etrautmann 2y agoParent’s comment was perfect IMO
- shivc 2y agodude this was next level lol
- nehal3m 2y agoPlease stop. Get some help. No, seriously.
- LogHouse 2y agoHurts but is a likely truth. I need to print this and remind myself of it daily as I lean this way with a young child at home.
- tetris11 2y agoI know that the moment that I have kids, this, all this (gestures vaguely at the mess that is my intense hobbyist life) comes to an end. Unfortunately every time the opportunity has presented itself, I've run away; scared to abandon my ego or compromise my twisted values for the sake of responsibility. This is no way to live. I will get there eventually, but I wish I didn't have to ruin the lives of others along the way.