Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
by PerusingAround on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:39PM
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This advice is absolutely gold.
Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
by volkandkaya on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:44AM
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Counter advice, going to college isn't special and I wasted 4 of the best years of my life for it.
Unless you come from a good family you can't do any of the above and most of the time is spent being cheap.
Great friendships are forged by doing hard things, college can do that but there are infinite other ways to do it.
Find a great job with smart people, take long holidays and do the above without worrying about money.
I don't want to take away from the awesome tool you've written. It looks really cool!
But, as a person who followed a similar path to you, I really wish I had taken my teenage and young adult years to not focus on my career or computers. I'd encourage you to spend as much time as you can learning about music, art, film, history, psychology, philosophy, food, dance, traveling, starting useful habits, trying new things, and most of all, hanging out with people that don't work with computers :-) College is where most people make lifelong friendships and meet their life partners, and there's very little opportunity for that (much less trying out random college courses) once you've started a career.
Work will be there for the rest of your life. You're only young once. Spend that time being young!
Oh, and start saving for retirement now! The sooner you start, the less you have to put away each month over time, making it much easier to build a nest egg.