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I am definitely hecka privileged. What would you have me do? Keep working a job I don't enjoy, out of guilt that other people have to do the same?
by eevee 11y ago
I am definitely hecka privileged. What would you have me do? Keep working a job I don't enjoy, out of guilt that other people have to do the same?
- ryanx435 11y agoI hate the word privileged, especially when used in the context op did. so you're successful, and an unquantifiable amount of that success was an accident of which family and socioeconomic background you were born into, and op wants you to feel shame because of that? that's ridiculous. it's a free country: do what you want and don't worry about the haters.
- peu4000 11y agoYou should definitely do what makes you happy. However, the blog post seems a bit braggy. A lot of us experience the same things, but we don't have a safety net(other than the gubmit I guess), it breeds jealousy. If I were in the same situation I would have left off the part about cashing out and paying the mortgage and not created a patreon without something to back it up immediately. It would have been better if it just listed the reasons you're leaving and maybe some insight into how you might fix some problems.
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoWell said.
- eevee 11y agoI wrote it because it was what I wanted to write, not as a formal teardown of the tech industry. You may notice that I didn't submit it to HN.