Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job

Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by dx87 on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:53PM (#24760867)

If you earned it, then it isn't privilege, by defintion. Unless you consider being born a hard worker as being privileged, in which case the word is meaningless.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by boyobo on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:49PM (#24761763)

I think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by rimliu on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:09AM (#24763368)

So the person is misusing it.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by boyobo on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:43PM (#24771161)

It's certainly different from what seems like the standard usage in the past few years, but I woudn't say it's a misuse. Here's is google's dictionary definition

"a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group."

In this case, the "advatange" would be 'able to find job without going through recruiter' and the 'particular person or group' would be 'the group of people who (through their hard work or otherwise) are sufficiently talented/and or secure enough in their career'

Anyway it's sad this this word has such a negative smell attached to it now, thanks to people using it to shame people on the opposing side of internet arguments.

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