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it's like quitting pro football. There are some people that think you're crazy, because they can't understand another mind that doesn't want to play pro footbal

• majormajor 13y ago
  Reminds me a bit of this from just a couple of months ago, about a guy who quit pro baseball because he didn't enjoy doing it as a business. Just because other people think you have to use a talent in a certain way doesn't mean that's what's best for you. "I quit because baseball was sacred to me until I started getting paid for it. The more that “baseball” became synonymous with “business,” the less it meant to me, and I saw less of myself in the game every time I got a check from the Philadelphia Phillies Organization, the Oakland Athletic Company, or the Chicago Cubs, L.L.C. To put it simply, other players were much better than I was at separating the game of baseball from the job of baseball." http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/why-i-quit-major-league-baseball.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/...
  • talles 13y ago
    I often see this happening... with programming.
• thenerdfiles 13y ago
  As "talent" might imply, indeed. Social expectations ruin everything because everyone disagrees on the details.