Im genuinely happy for the first time in a while...

I don't believe that at all. Don't be offended, but I believe your blinded by your own cognitive biases. Convincing yourself of these things will only manifest your destiny. I used and still am pessimistic about things like finding a wife or getting a job, but it does no good to beat myself up over it. Actually that is counterproductive, rather I should put in effort to reach those goals, then gain optimism and confidence, and use that to fuel other endeavors. I have confidence in myself and simultaneously am ridding myself of arrogance and instilling humbleness. Dunning krueger

Haha I have male pattern baldness genetically, but am not white. Love the smug attitude tho

Don't join the software corporate slaughterhouse if you know what's good for ya.

>kick massive ass at first, wonder why everyone and everything seems dim and grim
>your efforts start to be considered normal, you get loaded with way more responsibility, or problems to deal with which aren't your fault
>be so tired yet still anxious enough to need to work through lunch, and often times through the night
>still feel like shit because you can't ever get ahead of the curve
>managers are tech people, so they haven't a clue on how to manage you
>collectively with your managers shit on the low performers, but secretly envy them, they make pretty much what you do, do way less, and seem happy with their lives
>kill yourself

Holy fuck I hate being a software engineer

>bald
>not white
hey op, you better save this fella

You won't have a job soon. Shits collapsing

Have you heard of the overworking movement? Two remote tech jobs, putting in minimal effort at both, keeping low profile, ie no office drama bc no office, purposefully late to respond, overal nuetral. Just get the bare minimum done, then fund your startup

lol.

user you gotta do better than the after school special shit. I have a job. I make more money than my only remaining living relatives, who are toxic and selfish ppl that I can’t talk to anymore. my mom’s dead. my dad literally spent my college savings on his failing business, gave our house away to strangers so he could live in it without paying the mortgage, and he kicked me out on the street a month after I got discharged from the ICU from barely surviving being hit by a car on my bike. then I got raped by a woman I thought I loved. then I got a new job and literally everyone including the managers were mocking me to the whole office because apparently I
>read gud

look user, I hate to sound like a bone-deep pessimist, but some people just have shitty boring lives. not melodramatically shitty, not shitty so it gets better later, some people just lose in a boring and pointless way in life. attitude doesn’t change shit, because trust when I say that I go into every day and every opportunity and every situation hoping for the best and expecting nothing at all. and shit still goes wrong for me and the ppl who try to help. I’m a bit of a spiritual person and if you ask me my family, both sides, are full of awful people who did awful shit to so many people and actually died without facing any consequences. someone’s gotta eat that bad karma, and it’s pretty obvious to me by now that that’s what’s up. it would take a tremendous sacrifice, from not just one but like a dozen people MINIMUM, to take me off of this course I’m on. misery runs in my family, dude. there was no other way this was gonna go down. the only difference between me and my relatives is I’m not taking it out on the world. quite the opposite, I really go out of my way to brighten ppl’s day. originally I secretly hoped this would turn my luck around, but not anymore lol

I said I have genetic male pattern baldness, not that I'm experiencing it currently, just thst it's in the inevitable future

I've heard a little about it, but damn this sounds like something to consider.

jackhorner?