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As a person with ADHD. It feels like I always knew that working hard wouldn't get automatic rewards. Because no matter how hard I worked, I was never like the rst of the kids, and was always told I needed to try hardrr.
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When I was about ten. Washed my uncle's Corvette without negotiating a price. I finished and the fucker didn't pay because "I didn't set a price before I started" or something to that effect.
10. Years. Old. I'm now almost 60 and still haven't forgot that. Hopefully I haven't turned into the ass he can bePeople like that will do shit like that and then genuinely think "I thought them a valuable lesson." Like... no, arsehole, you just traumatised a kid for absolutely no reason and taught them that hard work doesn't pay.
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But you do get rewarded!......with more work.
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i refuse to accept a nihilistic stance on this tbh, i will keep doing me and if life wants to be a bitch about it she is free to give me her worst
we shan’t buckleI have the same and I think it's something like this, but for humans:
Like it's not hard to abuse people's trust, but if everyone did it, humanity would literally not exist. So we've learned to tolerate the dumb-fucks who don't get that and try to "game the system" (ie just being selfish cunts) so that society and humanity overall will prevail.
However since the industrial revolution, it hasn't worked, because abusing the trust and good will of others has become even more efficient and the amount of capital one person can accumulate makes a single person so wealthy and powerful that they can actually ruin the lives of all the non-psychopathic people who aren't being greedy society-destroying cunts.
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16, 21, 27, 32, and 37. I just keep forgetting for some reason.
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In school when I realized that the people who copied homework and cheated in exams could get the same grades as me with a quarter of the effort + everyone else gave you shit if you told on them and the teacher still didn’t change their grade because you have no proof.
wrote last edited by [email protected]School taught me how to be lazy. I had no idea or motivation to be lazy before I saw how much effort I was wasting.
I taught myself how to read before going to school and the reward was being placed in an empty classroom to read by myself when everyone else was learning how to spell. Unsupervised. Alone. "Sit here and read" Bitch I could do that at home wtf am I here for
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About 10 years ago, when I realized that automating my job just means I get more work (when I share my automations). Now a days, I still share some of my automations, but I wrote and hoard scripts to make me look good (and also lets me write more scripts since it takes probably about as long as my mid-level coworkers).
Upside is I can look like an absolute wizard when I want to.
This is it. You cant give it your all every day. Youll be filled to capacity every day and be miserable. Then those days / weeks where your work load increase, you turn it up to 11, hit all your deliverables, and look like a champ
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15 yo me just went straight into cyber security because of easy money so...
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Early 20s. Almost 40 now.
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When I was about ten. Washed my uncle's Corvette without negotiating a price. I finished and the fucker didn't pay because "I didn't set a price before I started" or something to that effect.
10. Years. Old. I'm now almost 60 and still haven't forgot that. Hopefully I haven't turned into the ass he can bewrote last edited by [email protected]I would throw mud on his car every time i saw him until he paid up.
Turns out "teaching someone a lesson" can go both ways.
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It’s honestly just who I am, I don’t understand moderation. I’m from the US and moved to Germany, and it’s exploited a lot less, which is nice, but I either give everything or nothing.
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I'm almost there. Everything I've worked hard has blown up in my face so far. It's getting harder and harder to convince myself that there's light at the end of the tunnel, especially since society is about to collapse
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19 as an army conscript. Never volunteer, never be first, but also never be last. Never let your friends or colleagues do your work tho', always lift your share. Always have your friends back, never trow blame aroud out loud, nd never trust those who are willing to stab others in the back. Lost honor and trust can never be fully regained.
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People like that will do shit like that and then genuinely think "I thought them a valuable lesson." Like... no, arsehole, you just traumatised a kid for absolutely no reason and taught them that hard work doesn't pay.
"Fuck you I got my single free car wash"
Hope it was worth destroying his nephew's trust in him for life
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"Fuck you I got my single free car wash"
Hope it was worth destroying his nephew's trust in him for life
That uncle
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Amen. Why should I be less good just because lots of other people suck?
There's no call to be less good or less yourself. But it's helpful to have stress management, relaxation, and self-support skills along with tempered expectations to maintain a healthy mental state. Then the rewards that never materialize aren't as big a deal.
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I'm 42 and it has worked out pretty well so far, honestly.
I joined the military, got good reviews (called "marks" for us), and tested well when I tried. Now I make good money, have the support of a lot of people in different departments and largely able to work on the projects I want, have gotten my #1 pick for station every time I have had to transfer, and will be retiring in 4 years with a bunch of ties to the community to keep me involved with things I enjoy after.
I get a lot of this is luck, and privilege (e.g. not everybody can join the military), and other factors. And regardless how hard I worked, many things ended up being popularity contests, so I missed some opportunties that way. But at no point did I feel like being nice and hardworking worked anything but in my own favor.
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There must be places where that behaviour is rewarded. The question is how to find them.
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As in work wise? I am aware for as long as I could remember to not always put in more than one hundred percent into a workplace. I have always heard of stories of companies and employers abusing their employees, despite said employees having done more than they were asked for. Twenty years service is not always rewarded well. Many senior workers are intentionally sidelined or underpaid to make them to quit; because it is cheaper for employers to hire new, cheaper workers than keep those with decades of experience.
More often, going the extra mile is not even about getting recognition for some individuals. Some people are workaholic to distract themselves from their personal issues outside of work.
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It’s honestly just who I am, I don’t understand moderation. I’m from the US and moved to Germany, and it’s exploited a lot less, which is nice, but I either give everything or nothing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In a better world, being highly motivated to contribute to your neighborhood's well-being and improvement would result in... a nicer neighborhood with happier, healthier people living in it.
But now we're all just miners, digging up gold nuggets and hoping it means we get paid a fraction of their worth, with no regard to what this giant strip mine will do to the land we live in or our successors inherit.
