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What Should I Do With My Life?
Bamafan77 writes "FastCompany's website has an interesting article about what it means to be successful that I think builds nicely upon a recent Slashdot discussion. That Slashdot thread was about a study that wanted to find out if there is a link between college rejection and success. This new article asks a more basic question that many people struggle with: what does it mean to be successful and how do I achieve it? This article is an excerpt from a new book by Po Bronson which details the personal lives of several people, many of whom are very talented and superficially successful, who switched gears to try to find that 'thing' they are impassioned about. One interesting excerpt that might particularly hit home to the Slashdot community is Bronson's tidbit about a Rockwell manager who left his job because, though it was mentally challenging, lacked a deeper level of gratification. What is this man doing now? He's a cop in East LA."
I'd to be solvent when I'm old, and I think I'm not alone in that.
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Not only are they a great company to work for, but you will contributing to the advancement of the world's most popular software. Your work will bring happiness and joy to billions, as the work of thousands of Microsoft employees before has.
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the person wanted the satisfaction of beating on people or helping the down-trodden?
Well, I was selling death sticks and making a handsome profit until some Jedi told me to go home and rethink my life...
So, maybe I'll become something less profitable, like a sysadmin...
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
..is world peace, having a comfortable house, a job you love, a modest paycheque and a loving family.
Oh yeah, blowjobs... plenty of blowjobs.
Trolling is a art,
He figures: "At long last, they will respect mae authoraetai!"
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Now there's a philosopher-king!
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Ask Slashdot: 'What should I do with my life?'
Oh, dear God, don't ask that here.
Russel Crowe was great in it. But that wasn't a jedi, that was al pachino.
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
I dream of big machines.
I dream of big machines multi-processor server beasts.
I fall asleep to the soothing whirr of RAID arrays grinding in the background.
Endless lines of monotous code fill my head as I down one too many Jolts with the coffee cup still on my desk.
I hold onto the mouse like a lifeline because it is.
This is what I always wanted. This is what I got.
I am not afraid.
ACK
So, am I successful? I have about six zeros followed by a couple other numbers then the decimal.
He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send your fingerprints off to Washington."
I love all these articles that tell you how to be successful in life/work/love/etc
is that a standard directory in some linux distro i haven't used yet? can i see your config files?
btw, agree with everything you said.
> Get tipsy with friends.
> Have lazy Sunday morning sex.
> Enjoy your coffee.
> Realize you don't have to be rich.
Based on these recommendations, I can confidently say the author doens't have any kids. Nice try though.
mm ya.. now.. if it only was actually funny..
I read: "What Should I Do With My Wife?"
Actually, to get things truly to the SEI level 5, would be to create a harmonious working atmosphere where the business process accurately reflected the way which the work is actually done. If I could have a hand in bringing that to the people, I would feel like a hero.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
from his parody of that sunscreen song from a few years back.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '98,
People often ask me if I have any advice to offer
And when they do, I tell them this:
If you're unsure about what you're going to do with your life,
Try to remember, some of the most interesting people didn't know what they were going to do at age twenty-two or even at forty, and nearly all of them are
unemployed drug addicts forced to live on cat food.
Also understand that friends will come and go, this is because of your irritating personality, nobody likes you. So if the only thing getting you thought the
day is the misconception that people like you, end it now. (bang, gunshot)
Learn how to smoke Whinny Blues, if you're under aged, get an older kid to buy them for you.
Get to really know your parents, they're good for money, milk them, then put them in an old people's home.
Travel as often as you can, live in New York City once, live in Northern California once, never live in Adelaide, It's a hole.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, if you do have children, lock them under the stairs.
Do one thing each day that scares you, sing, dance, jump in front of a car.
Do not trust anyone who tries to update Sheakespear for the kids, and if you see Quindon Tarver in the street, punch him in the face for me.
Chorus
Brother and Sister, we can be free (smack)
If you're worried about the way you look, try to remember, you're probably fatter than you think, maybe you should consider an eating disorder. Don't
worry too much about the future. If you're nervous about an exam, ring up your school to schedule time, and make a bomb threat. If you're a girl, lie about
period pains to get out of anything you don't want to do. Cheat if you think you can get away with it. Remember, someone with richer parents is getting
private tuition.
Shop-lift as often as you can, Shopping Centres factor shop-lifting into their prices, so if you don't do it, it's like they're getting money for free.
When you're on work experience, steal a cab-charge, and take a Taxi to Perth.
Wear sunscreen, but only if it's that coconut oil that gives you cancer.
Keep your old love letters, if you see an old lover in the street, try to run them over in your car.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or else by the time you're thirty-five, you'll look like Greg Matthews.
Remember you can wear your underwear four times without washing them, Forwards, Backwards, inside-out Forwards, inside-out Backwards.
Chorus twice
(bang bang bang bang)
Congregate in gangs around train stations and shopping centres, it's a free country, It's public space. Skateboard on War Memorials.
Smoke in your School uniform.
Set off car alarms.
Plant Drugs on a teacher.
Join a cult.
Spike Drinks.
Don't flush public toilets.
Remember, only you will truly take care of you, so carry a concealed weapon.
Don't wear your 'P' plates.
Walk around with your eye lids rolled back.
Touch your tongue on the tip of batteries.
Be open to new love.
Remember, you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex.
Expect others to support you, it's easy to get the doll and still do cash in hand work.
Respect your elders, when your grandma dies, have her stuffed.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when you're knee capped by a loan shark.
Get revenge, don't forgive anyone for anything,
But most of all, don't aim too high, you're probably only suited to an office or factory job.
And trust me on the Whinny Blues.
glossary, whinny blues- winfield cigerettes,
dole- welfare,
Greg Matthews- aussie cricketer that advertises hair replacement procedures.
P plates- probationary drivers hace to put these on their car.
Perth- capital city of Western Australia along way from anywhere, (around 3000 km to the next major city).
Adelaide- capital of South Australia, it's a hole.
...try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations, and, finally...
I think Boiler Room said it best....
"Money can't buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face..."