Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40? by JabavuAdams on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:14AM (#9092675)

I was just thinking about this yesterday, and I disagree. I think it's something that people repeat without really thinking about it.

Sure, if you hate your job, or it's meaningless. But let's turn this around. Do great painters wish they had spent less time painting? Or do they wish they could finish their last project. Do writers wish they had written less, or do they wish they could live long enough to finish that last book?

I do what I do because I enjoy doing it more than spending time with my family. For better or for worse, it is a compulsion, a calling, not a job.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40? by Padding on Monday February 23, 2015 @04:24AM (#9093351)

I agree.

The way most people seem to mean this is one in which it's trivially true, since work is unpleasant but necessary and family is pleasant but scarce.

There is work out there that people love and not only activities that you get compensated for qualify as "work". Similarly there's relatives out there that people do wish they'd spend less time with.

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