I don’t care about the kids under 30. The funnier the better, and the older you are the more I want to know: what would you like to be when you grow up?
Achievable goals fall short of true potential.

  • gjoel@programming.dev
    3·
    7 hours ago

    So many things. Sometimes I feel like going into politics, because everything there is so crazy. I take this as a sign that my brain is fried from too many meetings.

    It would be cool to do a startup making something cool, but honestly I don’t want to put in the extra hours and I don’t want to risk the comfortable lifestyle my current job provides.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    I just want to stop feeling imposter syndrome. I’m nearing 50, at work everyone seems to think I am one of the most competent people they have met in my field. I get the hard problems, get dragged into lots of projects as a technical consultant. And yet internally, I forever feel like I’m “faking it until I make it”. Like I’m one question away from being unmasked as a kid playing at knowing what I am doing. Consciously, I know I am not and that I’m actually pretty good at this. But, every time I get a meeting request from my boss, I still get a moment of panic thinking, “this is it, I’m about to be fired”. That’s what I want from “growing up”, to just not feel that feeling constantly.

    Also, I want to be independently wealthy when I grow up. Fuck this whole work thing.

    • gjoel@programming.dev
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I would have that. If not for the fact that no one around me seems to have any clue what’s going on (either). You don’t have to be perfect, no one is. Everyone knows no one is. But compared to the people around you, who are also putting up facades, maybe you’re actually doing a pretty good job?

  • algernon@lemmy.ml
    8·
    10 hours ago

    If I grow up, I failed. 43 years and counting, I’m still on the winning path. Aged? Yes. Matured? A bit. Grew up? Hell no.

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
    34·
    15 hours ago

    Retired, so I finally have time to finish the dozens of personal projects that I’ve started in my first 36 years.

  • mbtrhcs@feddit.org
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Language designer for a widely used programming language. Basically I want to be Brian Goetz

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Well, I am doing pretty well for myself in a combination of IT, geophysics, and offshore/ship stuff… but when things aren’t going my way at work I still conclude that it’s t8me to get the necessary licenses to finally become a crane driver.

    I’ve driven a lot of cranes (ships cranes, mostly), but I’m talking about those huge tower cranes - chilling alone at the top, and once in a while someone calls you on the radio, needing something lifted from A to B. Seems chill as fuck, and no searoll to worry about either.