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Biggest Moment in My Life (Again) - Page 2
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
Greatness never came from waiting, patience yes, but waiting no. There is a difference. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
On February 16 2016 07:01 BeStFAN wrote: sounds like you're burning the house you've struggled to build in order to struggle to build another one gotta agree with this. I think it's fine if you want to change careers but honestly, you are taking a huge risk by leaving this job and hoping to make something happen in such a limited amount of time. It would've been much better to work on your future plans on the side while surviving the programming environment until you manage to get your foot in the door. Given, it's your choice in the end about how to proceed. Best of luck! | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
On February 17 2016 08:52 c3rberUs wrote: I hope you succeed at art but 10 months to go 'pro' from scratch seems like a stretch though. Still, I'm looking forward to the progress you make due to the similarities in our situation i.e. programmer (still in college though) but likes art/wants to improve at art. Best of luck there yo. i think if you're able to put real working hours into anything (30-50 hours a week) then you're gonna become decent at it over a 10 month period. even more so if you are outcome-oriented/organised in your approach to progression. i look forward to proving this lol On February 17 2016 11:56 evaunit01 wrote: So you don't drink at all now? Meaning you don't have a drink ever? I am asking because I have been abusing alcohol now for about 3 years and I am having trouble stopping. It has begun to affect my health now....noticeably. I went 3 weeks without a drink but on July 4th had a few....that was a mistake. I haven't been able to stop since. I am more of a binge drinker, not a traditional alcoholic. here's some quit drinking tips: 1) buy energy drinks instead. they make you high like alcohol 2) get a guitar. electric guitar is super engaging. its literally like playing a hard video game, but more meditative and at the opposite end of a degen mindset 3) pick up a 6 days a week gym routine. make it super easy (one of my days is "pullups and run 30 mins", another is "squats and abs"). doing this gives you a believable, tangible reason every day to not drink 4) you buy alcohol when you FORGET how shit it makes you feel. at all times, try to remember WHY you don't want to drink 5) buy energy drinks instead and get buzzed on them you must understand that it IS possible to wean yourself off alcohol and other addictions , if you JUST KEEP TRYING. you are smart guys, try to do what's best as much as you can, and aim to find values in life that you can believe in | ||
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mooose
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Probemicro
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gl with life in any case! | ||
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Jenia6109
Russian Federation1607 Posts
 On February 16 2016 05:59 FFGenerations wrote: 10) today i also gave in my 6 weeks notice at my new job. i'm not smart enough by far to do programming and, more importantly, i have absolutely no interest in becoming a better programmer. trying to do a job you're not smart enough for is MISERABLE AS SHIT let me tell you (you're trying to prove your worth and instead you just can't fucking do this shit no matter what, 40 hours a week sitting in silence only every hour you have to ask your colleague the same dumb question coz you're too dumb to do it yourself, 8 hours a day with 1 hour sitting in your car wondering wtf you're even alive for, 5 days a week with weekends to just do nothing but wait for the next week of sitting in silence and misery and pointlessness to roll around). i knew programming wasn't for me, i knew exactly what it entails (i'm actually pretty smart when i want to be), and after succeeding this last chance at university degree i had to get a job in it to make back some of the fuckton of money and years of pain and disappointment i owe to my mom. and i've done it, i've gotten through the most dire shit in my life, even as dire as the most dire shit that you won't even know unless you've been so fucked up like i have for so many many years, and finally i got out the other end. Wow, it's so about me! :D And the more you hate the work the more you drink after it. And the more you drink the easier you spend your time in this silence... I spent 6 years doing the programming job. And then i went for remote work (like a freelance) for a last company i worked. I worked for ~1.5 years and ~1/2 of my salary and got bored in the end and director of a company offered me to work in office 3 days per week + some remote work if needed. It helped a little but the work I don't like is still a problem. I have a music passion and music project i hope to finish... But this blog is not about me so i won't continue The things i can tell you: - Lonely work in the house can't last forever. So it's good that you have a deadline (10 months). - The thing i can advise you is to try web design. I know you hate me right now. But web design is a common job today and most web designers who works in our company are funny people. Maybe i wanted to be a web designer if i had some art skills which i don't have - Also funny thing is that i have neighbours who lives with me in my house (my friend and his girlfriend (already wife)). And she worked in some companies doing some marketing job. She didn't like that and left the job after some years of work and now she... studies art!!! :D Actually she practiced art before and now she want to improve her skills to get some job. Ideally some gaming job. So, you are not alone Me, my neighbour, we all find our way to do the job we like, not the thing you must do because someone told you. You said well. It's something about a belief. If you work on things you believe you can overcome many difficulties and be yourself, don't find the happiness in the bottle and... oh, come on, i'm speaking like a personal psychologist | ||
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