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Dude, whatever you choose to do, please do yourself a favor and ignore the bullshit advice that starts with - "this is how the real world works..." That nonsens
by kirillzubovsky 13y ago
Dude, whatever you choose to do, please do yourself a favor and ignore the bullshit advice that starts with - "this is how the real world works..." That nonsense only comes from people who had settled for the average.
Life works in any way that you want it to work.
Look, if you don't want to do the shit work, don't do it, but don't bitch and moan and complain about it. Instead, find a way to still get shit done, while not doing the work you don't want to do.
You don't like doing homework? Nobody does. It's a waste of time and you will not use 90% of what you've learned.
Spend the bare minimum time you need to pass high-school on work that you have to get done, devote the rest of your time to the work you want to get done. If that means learning computer programming, do it. I had friends in high-school who managed hosting companies, while at high-school. Guess what, while the rest of us were solving stupid problems and learning history, those guys made money. It's not a bad skill to learn.
Anyways, this discussion could go back and forth...
Get off your ars, close HN and just f'ing do something!
- elwell 13y agoReally? > Life works in any way that you want it to work. This, kids, is why you shouldn't smoke crack.
- s0rce 13y ago"Spend the bare minimum time you need to pass high-school on work that you have to get done" >> and get the grades you need to go to college to learn more For me, the bare minimum still got me good grades in high school, but in college I worked really hard, sometimes the bare minimum isn't enough to succeed.
- j45 13y agoMind letting us learn more about what you did specifically yourself that that ended up in your recommendation and how it turned out? The story often brings out more of a perspective.
- psc 13y agoGreat post. This is the kind of perspective you want to have. This reminds me of PG's high school essay: "The important thing is to get out there and do stuff. Instead of waiting to be taught, go out and learn." - PG Before I quote the whole thing, the OP (and anyone in the same position) should read the whole essay: http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html If you want the real world to be (quoting from the other post) "lots of sucky boring shitty work, for a few profound moments of bliss," that's fine. But if you don't want to accept that, you don't have to. What Kirill said above is totally right; life works how you want it to. It's normal for someone in high school to feel like the OP, especially someone who's a hacker at heart. School limits you in a lot of ways, but you don't have to let it stop you. You just have to realize that the boundaries are self imposed. You can do real things. So treat school like a day job, get it out of the way, and do what's interesting to you.