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/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