IMHO: The only way to win the game is to not play. Nobody takes the job title or their salary with them. Enjoy life, prepare for retirement and don't get ass fucked by the stupid staus symbols everyone wants you to buy.
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That's the lesson I learned with my credit cards. I took out a loan to pay them off and as soon as they were paid off, I closed them. The sugar is too sweet, and the goblin is ravenous. It's too easy to use the credit card to acquire junk. Next thing you know, over 25% of your income is going toward credit cards, and you've got nothing to show for it.
I finally said fuck that shit. They need me more than I need them. It's a shame the realization took so long.
The only way to win the game is to not play.
And you're goddamned right.
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I'm very bad at networking. I blame DNS.
It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
isitdns.com
It says here you’ve got connectivity problems.
LinkedIn lunatics can't understand this. If your whole work culture revolves around who you network with and how your profile looks and not mutual respect then I am happy to work for someone else. Honestly the people that crave power the most are almost always the ones that should not be in charge of anything. I'm fortunate to have an awesome job and totally understand you might need to take a shit job just to get by but the lunatics don't understand that it doesn't have to be this way.
One of the biggest reasons I’ve stuck with my current job for so long is that my direct manager is awesome. I can’t imagine how it would be if it was someone else.
If your whole work culture revolves around who you network with and how your profile looks
I call that late stage capitalfeudalism.
How do you meet people who can make you happy if you don't do small talk? That's literally how you meet people
You can always infodump, if they stick around they're a keeper.
High stakes gambling isn’t for the weak of heart
No, that's how you meet people. That's not the only way to meet people.
I've seen the same people around the different skate spots or climbing gyms. I see them try and fail to land some trick a hundred times, or try and fail some boulder a hundred times. Then I see them make it for the first time and I shout hell yeah Tom. They do the same for me. By law you're now homies.
Roll up to your local weekly Street Fighter tournament. Lose against the same Guile player a dozen times in a row. Every week ask him for some friendly matches til you learn to beat Guile. Fist bump them once you get a win. By law you're now homies.
Walk down the local haunted railroad track on a friday night. Get scared by some local teens who jump out at you. Spot someone else down the rail who's walking your way. Hide back in the bush with the teens and wait to jump scare the next passerby. You are all blood-bound as homies.
Pick up some nerf guns off craigslist for $10 on your way to work or whatever. Spot the nearest person who looks like they'd play softball and shoot a dart at them. Softball Lesbians love nerf wars. Throw them a gun. Start a nerf war on the sidewalk. You've acquired a war homie.
Go to a local makerspace/workshop. Build some RF Drum Sticks that bang on a real drum 5 feet away when you waggle them in the air. Ask people to play it while you "Calibrate the sticks". Watch them pop off. You're now band mates.
I hate talking to people but I love doing stuff. This is all real shit that's gotten me some friends without really talking to them. You just gotta do things in your free time. For every 10 nights you go do some dumb fun shit on your own only one of those nights leads to you finding someone who's down to clown but that's alright. It's a thousand times better than the people you make friends with by talking about holiday plans with Marvin from Accounting. No hate to Marvin.
I met my wife at a roller disco, just skating around messing about, shared joy at an activity. We were 15 and dated for a few years subsequently. Didn’t work out then, but years later, went back due to younger sibs and relived a bit of youth, there we were again. Rest is history.
Lemmy: I do not have social skills and view anyone who does as fake.
It's actually a perfectly fine metaphor, portraying themselves as ego, the villain who's obsessed with his world view being correct.
Can you knit? I do! But it's not expected of me just for existing. And i do not claim or am considered to be better because i can knit.
Been at my job for 5 months now and the only person I talked to got fired.
I will always network
The only networking I do is connecting my RPI server to my thinkpad router
This is me at work.