extrememacaroni

The internet is sort of like a local neighborhood in that regard, it's just that your neighbor next door is The World's Biggest Genius in [whatever your passion is] and down the road there's a few more contenders.

Now you could look at others too but when everyone around you talks about the same few people over and over, it's hard not to think that "unless I'm as good as them, I don't matter".

His advice is applicable to those wanting to impress others, it's really a healthy way to look at making progress in your endeavors by focusing on said progress rather than all the way you still have to go.

To improve the digital services for citizens you'd first have to be in a position to initiate or convince your superiors to convince their superiors (and so on) to initiate an investment in an improvement. Then wait for about a decade to actually see anything happen.

You don't just show up there all like "if we rewrote this portal in react with all these patterns here (which are really cool, I promise) things would be better for the citizens" and then do just that.

tl;dr if you want to improve the state of public sector software, you're better off entering the domain as a politician rather than software developer.

I think one of the points of prison is that you don't get what you prefer.

This is a very dramatic presentation for something that does not warrant it.

I'd imagine medium's servers would combust trying to contain this guy's post about a hypothetical something that has its roots in something like the holocaust gas chambers.

The thing about pessimism is that it's a very attractive mindset for people who don't like to think all that much, but want to have answers.

It's also the mindset for people who stagnate and adopt a defeatist attitude.

It's also an extremist mindset, that closes itself away from other options and is fueled constantly by more pessimistic thoughts.

It's also a mindset that can quickly lead to depression, due to the constantly negative and skewed perspective of life.

It's also an easy mindset to disguise as "realism". There is no realism in what you've advised, in fact the advice for people to stop reproducing due to a doomsday scenario is perhaps the least realistic thought when it comes to reactions to global warming. The absurdity of such an advice is only explained by the naivety of someone who only now started life (which is accurate).

My advice for you would be to think longer about these things, 23 is just the right age to think you have all the right answers and everyone else is wrong.

You don't sound like you're enjoying anything.

No, here's the title in another form but with the same message: People who had meaningless but safe 9-5 jobs and escaped, how did you do it?

OP didn't claim safe jobs are inherently meaningless nor did he allude to the claim.

OP is trying to find a state where he's happy, you seem to have already found one, so good for you.

In literally every possible way.

> Have you ever had a multi-day run of beautiful work?

> Y’know, flow state the whole time, work is clicking, everything is getting done without distraction or interruption, the feeling of unstoppability, time disappears, work gets done…

>… good feeling, eh?

Yes, I get that with work that I enjoy doing. I don't need it with work I don't enjoy doing (doing less so long as I advance at a steady/estimable pace is fine), so this looks like working for work's sake.

My god is this website awful, this is what I see when I first open it up: https://i.imgur.com/wcUDbhD.png

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