Comment by mettamage
1 month ago
> I’ve got no idea, I’m too busy gaming on my Playstation 5 and living a life of selfish consumption.
This is in another article of his about not having kids. But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town. And the other things that life has to offer, can be fucking painful. But I'd still say it's worth it to experience.
I appreciate it that life is bitter sweet. I wouldn't exactly say that I like it, but I appreciate it (and it goes up to a point, when we're talking about really rough tragedies, yea none of that please).
> But I think just focusing on enjoyment in life is a poor human experience. Life has much more to offer that is equally interesting. Enjoyment isn't the only game in town.
I assume this person is employed, so they're probably already doing quite a lot more than just hedonistic enjoyment.
That's fair.
Here's where I'm coming from.
With the Leetcode stuff going on I'm doing a lot more than 40 hours per week. Nevermind I also need to learn actual tech developments outside my job.
Other than that I put 10 to 20 hours of time into personal development. I've done this since I was a teenager.
All of this feels brutal, but my life does seem to get better over time. Though, I am not at a place in my career where I want to be, but in part that's because I find it really tough to know where I want to go, so I tend to do everything. Unfortunately, being an average/above average xyz in multiple domains doesn't do much (currently in pentesting, software engineering, data engineering and being a data analyst).