Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness? by bckr on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:02PM (#29617757)

Thanks for expressing this. I think it gets left out of the conversation due to stigma. People are expected to say how happy they are to have disabled children because anything less is, I suppose, considered inhumane.

However, it's very humane to bring to other people's attention that their prospective children might not be healthy.

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Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness? by emodendroket on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:18AM (#29621780)

They might not, but is there any way you can live where you're free from the risk of terrible calamity? If you become close to another person, you don't know if they'll get hit by a car tomorrow and suddenly leave you grieving in a way you'd never be if you never met them in the first place.

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Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness? by bckr on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:57AM (#29621930)

> is there any way you can live where you're free from the risk of terrible calamity?

No.

> and suddenly leave you grieving in a way you'd never be

And we should consider that when deciding to enter a relationship.

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Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness? by emodendroket on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:50AM (#29622125)

The notion of a life lived without any relationships with other people seems too grim to contemplate.

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Re:Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness? by bckr on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:31AM (#29626706)

I find it helpful to contemplate just that. Helps me realize that I am in all of my relationships through choice and to appreciate them before their inevitable end.

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