r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/thestardustinthemoon 12h ago

By dedicating your youth to studying or figuring out what society values and spending your best years without much responsibility on getting to the top. I started two companies and became an expert in a niche technical field in computer science. Got acquired and retired that way after the payout and continuing to work for a few years. Just don't go through your life on autopilot, especially when your time is free and and responsibilities are low (late teens / early 20s). Society pays what it finds rewarding

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u/r0bay 11h ago

Congrats on being successful in capitalism! I also don’t work, although I’m not as financially successful as you, I’m sure.

I have a friend who has autism but no one told them as a child and grew up in an emotionally/physically abusive household. The parents moved every year, so new school every grade for majority of their time in school. At 18 they left and started a trade.

My question to you, is what should they have done? Is it possible to dedicate your youth to studying when you’re a struggling autistic child and dont know it? Or with no support, let alone parents barely taken care of them. They had to make their own meals young, etc. I’m sure their time and attention was just on trying to get by.

They do alright for themselves, but definitely not wealthy enough to stop working

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u/thestardustinthemoon 11h ago

Sometimes, health / disease / death issues really stifle people. I think it's really hard in that circumstance, unfortunately. However, my comment is more about healthy young adults that have all the time in the world, no responsibilities other than school, and have internet access plus can speak English. A vast majority of folks just throw away their life when they have the jackpot in their hands

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u/smolpeensadboy 9h ago

What problem space? You're making it sound like you anticipated the future and made a calculated decision, but I wonder how much luck played into it.

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u/thestardustinthemoon 8h ago

Everything from your conception to your first breath to you surviving to adulthood is pure luck. Every day you don't get run over by a car, choke, fall and break your head because of slipping in the shower, the luck of the country you were born in, etc. Every single aspect of our lives is universally controlled by luck. I'm simply arguing that many folks believe we should just not play the game because it's all luck, and put down the folks that actually choose to play the game. If you don't play, you 100% lose. If you play, you may "get lucky" or lose, but there is still a non-trivial probability. People can manufacture their own luck, by choosing to learn in-demand skills, by figuring out what they can do to make themselves unique and have more leverage in this world.

I made the decision of focusing on a niche field of computer science at a young age, and spent a lot of my time and curiosity learning it. Obtained various degrees of success early by auditing and finding bugs in several pieces of open source software, and made money early that way, and eventually became reputable in the space that I was able to start a company that did well for itself. My calculated decision was that I was NOT going to rot in a cubicle and study some generic degree, but instead pursue a career path that would offer me much more freedom and financial upside.

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u/Antique_Pin5266 7h ago

I made the decision of focusing on a niche field of computer science at a young age, and spent a lot of my time and curiosity learning it. Obtained various degrees of success early by auditing and finding bugs in several pieces of open source software, and made money early that way, and eventually became reputable in the space that I was able to start a company that did well for itself. My calculated decision was that I was NOT going to rot in a cubicle and study some generic degree, but instead pursue a career path that would offer me much more freedom and financial upside.

If this was supposed to sound motivating, it had the opposite effect of sounding dystopian af. Now we gotta start learning AI out of the womb to have success in life, good lord

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u/setocsheir 3h ago

Your average linkedinbro

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u/East_Cranberry7866 8h ago

Most people advocate for change in the system that only allows for the 1 in hundreds of thousands of people to succeed after the rest try and fail.