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> I wasn't out there making wise choices You give yourself too little credit. I am not discounting luck -- I too have gotten very lucky in my career -- but wit

> I wasn't out there making wise choices You give yourself too little credit. I am not discounting luck -- I too have gotten very lucky in my career -- but without good decisions and hard work luck is wasted. You didn't have to accept the job at KC. You didn't have to go along with your boss' demand to spend the money on wardrobe. You didn't have to do well at that job. These are all things you did that nobody forced you to do.

saraid216 13y ago
Wow. When you put it that way, you make it sound like he's a soldier obediently following orders. I've never thought of it like that before. I've never thought of wisdom as synonymous with obedience before. ...religion makes a lot more sense now.
mcv 13y ago
> without good decisions and hard work luck is wasted I disagree. Luck can go a long way. Ever heard of Paris Hilton? Do you see hard work and good decisions, or simply a big pile of luck? Or how about me? I'm a fairly successful programmer, making quite a bit of money as a freelancer right now. But I don't work hard, nor did I really make a lot of hard decisions. I just kinda wound up where I am. I just went with the flow. I'm lucky to be blessed with a good brain for programming, and to be born in an academic family that loved computers. My dad and my older brother are programmers, and I just followed the family trade. There were plenty of other things that I would have liked to do, but all of them would have required a lot more decision and discipline. This was the easy road for me. I wouldn't even know how to apply for a different kind of job. The only tough step I ever made, was to switch from being a salaried employee to a freelancer. That was seriously a really big and hard step for me, and one that I messed up quite a bit. But miraculously it all worked out tremendously well.

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> I wasn't out there making wise choices You give yourself too little credit. I am not discounting luck -- I too have gotten very lucky in my career -- but wit

by Domenic_S 13y ago

saraid216 13y ago
Wow. When you put it that way, you make it sound like he's a soldier obediently following orders. I've never thought of it like that before. I've never thought of wisdom as synonymous with obedience before. ...religion makes a lot more sense now.
mcv 13y ago
> without good decisions and hard work luck is wasted I disagree. Luck can go a long way. Ever heard of Paris Hilton? Do you see hard work and good decisions, or simply a big pile of luck? Or how about me? I'm a fairly successful programmer, making quite a bit of money as a freelancer right now. But I don't work hard, nor did I really make a lot of hard decisions. I just kinda wound up where I am. I just went with the flow. I'm lucky to be blessed with a good brain for programming, and to be born in an academic family that loved computers. My dad and my older brother are programmers, and I just followed the family trade. There were plenty of other things that I would have liked to do, but all of them would have required a lot more decision and discipline. This was the easy road for me. I wouldn't even know how to apply for a different kind of job. The only tough step I ever made, was to switch from being a salaried employee to a freelancer. That was seriously a really big and hard step for me, and one that I messed up quite a bit. But miraculously it all worked out tremendously well.