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106/ Related: you know how I got my current gig? Cold-emailing the founder and asking if there were any bugs in the codebase he needed someone to fix, open-source style, for free. (Yes, this was a ploy to get paying work. Yes, it succeeded.)
107/ You know how I got my weekend gig? Cold-emailing the author of a blog I read, asking him in I could help him solve a problem he'd mentioned in his blog.
108/ You NEETs want to mock as "Boomer" the idea that guts and a cold call can get you a job? THIS SHIT IS PUTTING FOOD ON MY TABLE IN 2019. Hustle, or don't. ...but don't lie to me (or yourself) and say that hustling doesn't work.
109/ Me: <looks around at 5,000 square foot house on 56 acre farm, great wife, history of starting companies...all based on EXACTLY this strategy> Yeah, ok, dude. https://twitter.com/TriumphTribune/status/1109239314788032513?s=19 …
110/ I mean, is it LITERALLY guaranteed? No. But 99,999 out of 100,00 cases, having hustle is going to outperform not having hustle. So...choose wisely.
111/ Also, lads, there's this: even if your hustle doesn't put more dollars in your pocket, it LOOKS AWESOME . Who do you think women prefer? A mopey sad sack, or someone who makes shit happen? https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1109240401645449216?s=19 …
113/ Yep. Cold calling, looking for work, ASKING ... it's painful. But - as the Chinese say - you've gotta eat bitterness to get ahead.https://twitter.com/ee_elephant/status/1109240991264006146?s=19 …
114/ I'm reminded of this quote from The Last Days of Disco: Jimmy : women prefer "bad" over weak and indecisive... and unemployed Josh Neff : I don't know about that. Jimmy : You think they do prefer weak, indecisive, and unemployed?
115/ Many such cases. https://twitter.com/t_ancap/status/1109242295151403015?s=19 …
116/ Here's another onehttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1109244697891885056?s=19 …
117/ Here's another one.https://twitter.com/Face_Almighty44/status/1109246094649839616?s=19 …
118/ Everyone should dig a ditch, once. When I was 29 or so, I needed to reroute the sewer line on my house. Dug a 5' deep x 30' long ditch with pick and shovel, then laid a new sewer line. I never bitch (much) about my desk job. https://twitter.com/AidanMaclear/status/1109246214317490176?s=19 …
119/ I talk up blue collar work as honorable, and as a decent option. Yes. But anyone is going to take better paying / physically easier work, if it's an option, right? So what - if anything - Is the disagreement here?https://twitter.com/jimmyjakejohns1/status/1109249060253380608?s=19 …
120/ This keeps happening. I'm saying "hard work and hustle are good", and people act as if I'm defending social atomization, tindr hookup culture, and the trilateral commission. I dunno, man, I'm just defending a very narrow thesis.https://twitter.com/jimmyjakejohns1/status/1109254835600326661?s=19 …
121/ "I refuse to do things that bore me" Prima donna mindset. Disgusting.https://twitter.com/SakakiIsCute/status/1109284263357284354?s=19 …
122/ You utter the limp-wristed hi-curious words "work life balance, and you accuse ME of backing globohomo? Look, this is simple. You work hard. You advance your career. You save. And THEN you enjoy the fruits of your labor. https://twitter.com/SteppeBrahmin/status/1109286312874598400?s=19 …
123/
NEETs are using any excuse to pick apart my thesis "hard work and hustle is better than lack of hard work and hustle".
"Oh no @MorlockP , you made a lot of money. That's not possible for normal people. Your ideas are bad."
OK....topic switch...
https://twitter.com/Captain_Columbo/status/1109434991883284480 …
124/ Themodel for this criticism is "you succeeded, so you're not a good model for people who are failing". First off, that's retarded. Who is a BETTER model for someone who is failing than someone who succeeded? Another failure? That's not a role model. That's a pity party.
125/ Let's talk about me 5 yrs ago * ran my own firm for 15 years. * average maybe $40k/yr * is that $20/hr? Not, it's less, because I worked > 50 hours/week. * firm shut down, I declared bankruptcy * in legal trouble for dank tweeting * massive legal bills * forced to move
126/
So, me at age 40:
* bankrupt
* jobless
* history of earning $20k
* forced to sell my house and move out of state
* single for most of my 30s
"Oh, @MorlockP , you're such a success, you don't know what it feels like to earn crap money and have no goth gf and be broke"
Oh?
127/ I was in EXACTLY the same place that these 22 year old NEETs are in ... except I was about 20 years older. I differed from the NEET path in one single way: I decided to make a change.
128/ I made two resolutions: * I would work at WHATEVER job paid me the most. I'd spent 15 years running my own firm bc I wanted autonomy and decision making authority and and and and * I would work HOWEVER MANY HOURS the job wanted to pay me. These implied a third: * HUSTLE
129/ So: Time to give up on leisure, hobbies, and working for fulfillment. Time to get serious about debt reduction, savings, and progress in life. And ... that's what I did. I took ANY job that would pay me. If two jobs wanted to pay me at the same time, I'd take BOTH.
130/
Any time I thought that there was room to negotiate the wage up, I'd do so.
"Oh @MorlockP , that sounds like hard work. That doesn't sound rewarding. You - and by that, I mean 'I' - shouldn't HAVE To do that. I should get yangbucks!!!!1!"
ok.
Do whatever you want.
131/ This thread is not aimed at the people who are so dead set on "I'll only cash welfare checks because working is beneath my dignity" thought leaders. This thread is aimed at those that I can reach. The wavering middle who have kinda bought into the NEET / Yangbucks meme...
132/ ...but wonder, in the back of their minds, if the "stupid boomers" with their "stupid boomer memes" might actually know a thing or two. Do you wonder if MAYBE hard work and hustle actually is sometimes rewarded?
133/ I'm here from down town. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. I'm here to tell you that the mindset of free-will, creating your own success, hustle, hard work (a) works. By that I mean "dollars in your pocket" works (b) it makes you feel better (c) it makes your look better
134/
Yep.
About 15 yrs ago I was laid off from my coding job.
Couldn't get another job for a month or so.
You know what I did for those weeks?
☐ bitched & moaned about how there are no jobs
☐ played MMORPGS
got a gig doing construction (framing)https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1109457369090715648 …
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