Seriously. How many frameworks and jobs that were just the thing I already did before. Over and over. They hire me because of what they knew I did but want me to sign a thing that says I'll never do it for anyone else but also they never plan on enforcing shit. The better I get at anything no one wants me in the good rooms. Trust me. Chasing all this shit is stupid. VC shit is stupid. Hunt bliss and seek truth through work. Frameworks and tools are great if they serve something that serves you.<p>Paint on a borrowed canvas and it's hard to complain when they take your life from you. Find the real and fuck all this shit. I turn 40 in a month. I've been following this religion since I was 15. It served me better than most of my peers really but I was never accepted into the pantheon of "in group" either. I suck at programming but I'm almost definitely better than you.<p>Yeah man. I would say don't do what I did, but that's probably not you. You'll probably have 5 jobs. The advice here that is looking backwards is fucking useless stupid bullshit. This is a tire fire covered in an accidental sewer dump from a Dave Mathews Band tour bus.<p>Work isn't a search for capital it is sometimes solo but usually a collaborative search for a truth that sums one and one to make three.
The only beauty and truth, different to a hobby or scratching your own itch, is open source. Open source, a pet project of yours I mean, not submitting patches to some bigCo sponsored orchestrator, only that is true freedom. It's the truth. It's beauty. And it really does make the world a better place, unlike the gaslighting preached by SV execs nowadays.
Thanks for sharing. I'm younger than you and only work for the money. I'm not looking for bliss or truth through my work because I don't think they exist in modern work, but through other things: friends, family, personal hobbies, artistic pursuits, etc. I feel that most modern jobs are bullshit and I'm ok with that. I just want to feed me and my family and search for bliss and truth in my personal time. I hope I'm doing the right thing.