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0 pointsbarrkel9y ago0 comments

Plenty of people work much harder than dentists, lawyers etc and get paid an order of magnitude less. Supply and demand sets prices, not worthiness or fairness.

Personally, I feel like I sold my teenage years as a price for my edge in tech. I'm not always sure it was worth it.

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abalashov9y ago

> Personally, I feel like I sold my teenage years as a price for my edge in tech.

Yes, this. That's how I got here, too. And have the same ruminations from time to time.

lordnacho9y ago

Sold them? What do you regret? As far as I can tell, spending my teen years learning stuff was the right move.

Short of becoming a professional sportsman, which was never on the table for me, I don't see anything that I could have now if I had acted differently.

initram9y ago

I agree. I learned a bunch of tech and then used it to socialize, make friends, meet women, etc. I don't feel I missed out on either the teenage part or the learning part.

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