<story><title>A Forty-Year Career (2019)</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>IDK. This seems like good advice for a particular kind of person. One who is content for the vast majority of their human experience to revolve around software and technology. All these side gigs add up and this looks like a life with very little time to broaden oneself. Either that or this person has somehow found the golden ticket of a boss that actually considers career development as something they are willing to pay salary for.&lt;p&gt;I would have to do these kind of things on the side and I don&amp;#x27;t want my whole intellectual inner life and my hobbies to become software. I don&amp;#x27;t want to write software blogs in the evening. I want to read history books and cook dinner. I don&amp;#x27;t want to do podcasts on Saturday. I want to tear the drywall off my entryway and frame in a new window. I don&amp;#x27;t want to do side hustle paperwork on Sunday. I want to teach my kid how to shoot. I don&amp;#x27;t want to take a day off to go to a developer meetup. I want to go march for Medicare.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Forty-Year Career (2019)</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; Meeting my new coworkers, they structured their jobs as lottery tickets bought with their lifeblood, trading tips on managing the symptoms of work until the pearly gates of liquidity opened.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a true statement and a painful insight.</text></comment>