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Comment by notastartup | Hacker News Reader

damn this is like the complete opposite of me. I want to get out of the whole tech game once I make enough money to not have to work a 9 to 5 job. I wrote a quick rap verse about it.

    Jus trying to make a quick buck
    get outta this tech game but still no luck
    need to make it before i turn thirty
    before i end up old and dirty

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Is the implication that >30 year olds are old?

Apparently so. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. SV, specifically startup culture, is a large part of the tech world, but far from the only portion of it. I suspect the preference for young founders is not being able to "see the world through hacker eyes", but as was suggested earlier the willingness to burn the candle at both ends in order to make a startup succeed to the level that VCs wish. Young people are less likely to have families or an outside life.

So what do you want to do instead?

There are other things besides tech out there. I think too many people get caught up in the bubble.

I'd love to be able to make hip hop beats, or learn music production, or travel, or learn how to play the guitar. Those are all things that I think are more beautiful than programming or tech startups.

Why does it have to be a binary choice though? I'd think programming can be integrated in all of those things as well. It's just another tool in your mental toolkit.

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