Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
by fipar on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:27AM
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> because we are the sum of everything in our past, the good and the bad
Oh, definitely! I had a bunch of obviously bad things happen to me and I’ve gone through your “if you could change one thing “ exercise many times, until I learned to accept all of it got me to where I am.
In late 2001 my mother killed herself so by the end of 2002 I had a crash course on dealing with adversity!
Anyway, while I’m slightly older than you, one of my coworkers at the bank was the same generation as you at university so I remember you, and all the software you wrote that your classmates used. Crisis or no crisis, it’s no surprise you did great :) Nice to see your name on a comment!
There's this fun question "if you could change one thing from the past...", and I don't know how to answer it truthfully, because we are the sum of everything in our past, the good and the bad, and I like where I am today... but man, that crisis was rough.