If you’re not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK
You are happily married in Europe, don’t pigeon hole yourself in networking, jump on the automation bandwagon and as always buy and hold Bitcoin till it hits 90K
The question is “what would they say about your current self”, not what advice would you give them…
Yep, totally misread that. I shouldn’t Lemmy right as I wake up
Someone tried to convince mid-20s me about bitcoin and he was having none of it. Probably would’ve squandered a ton of it back then, anyway, once it got over the hump of a pizza for 10k or 50k bitcoin or whatever it was and finally got some acceptance.
Career? (Not knowing about AI) Oh wow interesting!
Life? (Not knowing about cost of living) Dude wtf!
19 year old me was dirt poor and thought everything was expensive. Now I spend more on my mortgage than he made in a month. 🥲
To avoid this and probably be generally better, I’d explain the current situation and say to be more active in government and vote more, but I was working at times 2-3 jobs and surviving off of dollar store boxed mashed potatoes at one point and, I forget whether 19 or 20, living out of my car surviving on wonderbread factor outlet leavings and peanut butter in addition to what my restaurant job would give.
The question is not “what advice would you give them?”, but “What would they think of your current self?”
They would tell me to read better, apparently. I had meant to do a two-birds-one-stone sort of approach but swapped your final ‘they’ with a ‘you’. Oopsie.
Nice recovery 😂
Your dog is awesome.
Your job is pretty cool. I don’t think I’m ready for that yet, but I’ll keep that on my radar.
Your beard and moustache are epic. Shame about the hair, but I knew that was coming.
Congrats on getting married, can’t wait to meet her.
Donald Trump? Twice? Really? And they do what? Fuck, man…fuck.
whoa, really?
nice! congrats!
Things are going mostly according to plan? Can I give advise? If so it would be buy stocks as soon as possible bitcoin/doge with skyrocket so buy that as well as sp500. Sell everything the day trump wins the 2024 election. Then buy the big dip in late Feb
You read the question backwards (you weren’t the only one :/ )
If I can explain now to past me then why can’t I pass past me information from the future?
We haven’t seen the big dip yet.
I meant to say late April that’s my bet but we will see.
“You were right and the guidance counselors were wrong.”
I have no memory of what mine said… But yeah, in my experience people who start out one one path and switch on to a totally different one often seem like more interesting and well rounded and happy people. I imagine guidance counselling would often be nearly impossible. At least in the sense of suggesting a career path - I guess just answering questions could still be really useful.
I just wanted them to place me better classes. They were convinced I would be happier, or more likely, their job easier, if I was placed in all remedial classes. This is despite testing advanced proficient for science and average for math and despite my grade school recommending me for advance placement for science.
I was never interested in talking to them about career paths or any of the other “American Dream” lies. I wanted to do something good for the world with my years in college. They fucking hate that.
I can’t believe we pulled it off holy shit we are good.
19 year old me would say “lmfao, how are you still alive?”
Wait so I still get to do this as a career? And I’m considered an expert in the field?!?
Yea that makes sense about my knees and back hurting.
My 19 year old self would be sad and hopefully take a different path.
No video games? You used too be a real nerd, man, now you’re just another normie!
“What kind of career strategy was ‘go with the flow’, old man? Oh, but it worked out ok? Good to know.”
Bahaha, this for me too, so much.
Probably a fair bit of middle class white male privilege in action for me - I’ve got a lot of community and family to be greatful for.
She would be absolutely stunned. Probably wouldn’t believe me. At 43 I’m married to the guy I was dating at 19. At 19 I had dropped out of college and thought I wanted to be an artist; at 43 I’m already retired from a successful career in academic research. At 19 I had no thoughts about politics or the world as a whole (9/11 hadn’t happened yet); at 43 I’m pretty informed and opinionated. And she’d probably be surprised how much I’m into the outdoors, healthy living, and weightlifting, given that she had negative interest in those things. The rest is pretty consistent - e.g., I’ve always loved music from the '60s, fun nail polish, scifi, swimming, and handmade art (drawing, beading, etc).
I mean the math checks out, but holy crap, you’re 43, but at 19 ‘9/11 hadn’t happened yet…’
Fuck yeah. Sounds like a great trajectory!
Probably;
- I’m proud. You proved everyone that you were able to do everything, they said you could not (education-wise).
- Don’t be afraid to change jobs, get the one that’s better for your future.
