The 5-year plan to 50k posts - part douche

Just give up and become a neet like me.

Join the club for trying to get Dignitas or some such to become available in the UK.

I also tried doing CS50. I don't get how people think that anyone out there can suddenly learn to code.

Maybe start suing everything for discrimination for extra free money.

Try going outside and looking at a cloud. Stare at the cloud, get angry at the cloud, shout and swear at the cloud. In nothing but your underwear while kids are playing in front of your house.

Try suing the cloud for discrimination. Win free money.
 
I always try and remember a saying my mum once told me,

"Things don't get easier, everyday you do them you just get better at them"

It was about Golf when I was teen but think it fits well into most things.
 
Stick 10k in the stock market.
Don't look at it for 40 years.
Sit on a beach moaning about your lot in life.
Profit.
 
Find something you enjoy doing/am interested by OP and just embrace being average at it. This was basically my entire telecoms career from Nokia service engineer through to RF performance engineer at Apple. It helps if your being average means that you’re considerably better that most of your peers.

Have you considered teaching basic IT skills and safety to older folks? I’ve become the “tech bloke” amongst the Brits that live near me and I find helping them to use smart TVs, smartphones and computers so they can access the many French government services which are all online safely. As their numbers include roofers, builders and carpenters; I’ve received invaluable help towards renovating my home and outbuildings.
 
FoxEye said:
It's not like I'm in cutting-edge AI work or anything exciting. Just keeping the lights on. Really uninspiring stuff.
Click to expand...

You just described my job, except I love it. It's something different every day. Working within a crazy tight budget to keep enterprise level services running is satisfying in its own way imo and the pay isn't too bad either.

My misses shuffles numbers about a database for a bank. I don't understand most of what she does, something to do with currency exchange, but she loves it and gets paid well.

My brother in law is a gardener by trade and worked at that for years before getting a job with the parks maintenance/council people. Now he tutors apprentices and loves every day, and gets paid a decent wage.

I think you're missing they key thing, enjoying what you do.
 
d_brennen said:
You just described my job, except I love it. It's something different every day. Working within a crazy tight budget to keep enterprise level services running is satisfying in its own way imo and the pay isn't too bad either.

My misses shuffles numbers about a database for a bank. I don't understand most of what she does, something to do with currency exchange, but she loves it and gets paid well.

My brother in law is a gardener by trade and worked at that for years before getting a job with the parks maintenance/council people. Now he tutors apprentices and loves every day, and gets paid a decent wage.

I think you're missing they key thing, enjoying what you do.
Click to expand...

I enjoy fixing bad data on databases (TSQL), shamefully it doesn't pay tremendously well!
 
Stop trying to find meaning where there is none. Write a plan and start focusing on just getting the things done that need to be done to achieve X, Y and Z. You aren’t going anywhere constantly overthinking every decision you’ve made. Self-criticism is only helpful to a certain point and only if the criticism is accurate.

Don’t make the same mistake of setting a specific figure for a salary either, it will only make you feel like a failure until you get there.

I echo the thoughts on therapy though. Your posts in this thread and the fact you’ve got zero passion for anything suggests you’ve got some kind of depression or an extremely nihilistic view of life.
 
I've had 40 years of 'achieving ' things and tbh it was probably always to satisfy my perception of what other people judged me on and I never came up to scratch.

Modern society and culture is a joke tbh, all the gains in capability and all we do is work out ways to put pressure on each other.

My advice is to do whatever seems like a good idea, give it a go, but don't force it, things happen in life, but more by chance than anything else.

I also think that to make real money you have to be a sociopath or have a silver spoon.

Lifes much tougher than it should be if you ask me.
 
Don’t you work for a large public sector organisation?

There typically filled with a range of career options that you need no previous experience of, most of which have progression of your good.

Network with colleagues in other departments and get yourself loaned to them for a few weeks/months and go from there?
 
I can become your life coach?

Edit: my story with coding is exactly the same. Don't try and learn things people have a genuine passion for. We couldn't become ballet dancers either.

Config monkey on a SaaS product is much more benign and accessible.
 
d_brennen said:
I think you're missing they key thing, enjoying what you do.
Click to expand...

I spend my time marvelling at the ingenuity of fools, and the novel ways they get things wrong. I then have to work out what happened, and why, and stop it happening again. I rather enjoy it- it's like a puzzle.

I'm not expert at what I do- probably average- but have an enquiring mind, so find the answers others won't.

I'd like to be paid more, but despise management and its political shenanigans.
 
Have you read any books on how to structure programs? Tried seeking help from experienced coders? Put code out there for review and critique?
 
You don't have to find "meaning" in your job to be happy. Plenty of people (I'd argue the majority) muddle through life in pretty average jobs that they'd rather not be doing just to pay the bills. But they do things outside of work that make them content with their lot in life. Be it family, a pet, hobbies, volunteering etc. In some ways you don't want all your self worth to come from your job as it could be taken away from you at anytime or leave you feeling empty come retirement.

If you do find that thing that creates drive and passion in you then great. If that thing is also profitable then brilliant. But punishing yourself for not finding it isn't going to help and probably put you off from trying new things in general.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom