Lol. That was never my plan, except for the first bit. My 'plan', such as it is, has always been to do at little work as possible.
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27 years old, believe it or not. I had an "I have no enemies" mindset
Never realized that 😍
Honestly it worked to an extent. It got me an ok job where I was paid decently until eventually I'd built up enough experience that I was underpaid.
Then I switched jobs a couple times to get my salary up, and now that I'm older and have kids, I focus more of work-life balance than on my career.
Working hard is still a good thing to do, especially when you're young.
Can I ask what career field you went into?
Systems analysis, which I've done in the finance, energy, and healthcare industries.
I started by doing mundane, repetitive computer stuff. Then I taught myself Excel and VBA and started automating it, so that became my job. Basically finding ways to make existing processes faster and more consistent.
At some point I started learning more advanced programming languages, but in my last job switch I moved away from that and back to Excel and VBA. The pay is similar, and the career development is worse, but I work from home and spend more time with my kids and my cats.
When I didn't have kids, I'd have prioritized working in-office and building my career. But nowadays I'm much happier this way.
I didn't know VBA was still a thing lol.
It's still an easy way to solve a lot of problems, especially around Excel.
I was 25ish. It was kinda crushing, but I also had cheat codes for life so its a bit easier.
What cheat codes? I could use an edge haha.
I think you're probably born with them. Some people lie about it though, that's a thought?
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People never wanted my help in the first place ...
Eh, its worked out for me...
Highschool when I was stonewalled from fixing my academics.
I just found out I got lied to and I actually passed the honors placement test.
Was this people's original plan? Why?
About the same age when I realized it was too late to do anything about it either.
Make a company with all the people who think alike and profit together.
The moment I graduated from secondary it slapped my. All the old people who neglected to save or plan and refused to retire, and entry level being about half of what was needed to actually survive.
Never, because it's actually working out for me. Stop working for shitty corpos I guess
I gave up on the working hard and trying to do too much 20 years ago. The first part I will do until I’m dead.
Hmm, Yeah, I guess I'm only now coming around it, not sure . . . I'm 32.
I mean, I realized it much earlier, but did I change my behaviour right away? Of course not.
It's definitely a topic I'm embarrassed to speak about with family.
Closed mouths don't get fed.
automatically rewarded without asking
I sense the root of here problem.
Around 14yo
Disillusioned early like 8 years old, so that was never me.
26
Yeah, but asking is super easy, tho.
I end up doing a lot of my admin at home (I’m salaried) bc people won’t leave me alone with their conversations that…aren’t important. But the hours are really good. One more year and I can move on and take a massive pay bump without working outside of campus hours.