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I take that opinion away from watching my dad work incredibly hard as I grew up, and listening to him tell stories about what a slacker he was compared to my gr
by delichon 2y ago
I take that opinion away from watching my dad work incredibly hard as I grew up, and listening to him tell stories about what a slacker he was compared to my grandfather. My grandfather worked continuously for the survival of his eight kids. My father worked from the fear of another depression like the one he grew up in. He had four kids. In comparison I lounge about all day and tickle the keyboard a little when I feel like it. I have no kids. I can't claim that my work is more demanding with a straight face. For my own family that climbed out of poverty into the middle class in the last three generations, work demand has been inverse to fertility.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoI am aggressively data driven, and ignore my gut whenever possible. Anecdotes? Not data. My minima observations? Not data. In God We Trust, all others must bring data. Like IFR flight as a pilot, you must ignore your senses and rely on the instruments, because your senses will lie to you about orientation. Remember, yours and my lived experiences are just one of billions.
- delichon 2y agoI'm a coder, I solve little problems all day. My work would be enormously harder if I didn't use my gut to test results. I doubt I could make a living doing that. I frequently get bad results from doing statistics on large data sets, and only discover it when my gut asks me why it looks funny. Like this one. We don't need a happy medium between Mr. Gut and Mr. Data, we need to merge them. For another data check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility In my own experience lower income has been associated with harder work. If a stat says that modern knowledge work is more demanding than subsistence farming, I have to question it.