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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? by jfornear on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @08:30PM (#392220)
Not anymore. At least in my experience, people think you are either a naive dreamer or a burnout that can't get a real job, especially if you work with computers/internet. I just tell relatives and new people I meet that I don't know what I want to do after school.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? by thomasmallen on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @08:39PM (#392236)
We live in an unbelievably conservative time right now.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? by eru on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @08:43AM (#392872)
Teenagers even stopped to rebel.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? by thomasmallen on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:09AM (#392897)
Not all of us. Well, I'm 20, but it still counts.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain what you do to your relatives? by eru on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:31AM (#393089)
Yes, but "I am going to start a company and make loads of money." differs from sixties style rebellion.
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