What brutal lifepills would you like to share that aren't necessarily foid-related?

[Deleted member 7448]

One of the hardest pills to swallow is how getting rich and advancing socially is nearly impossible. You hear so much about entrepreneurship, people making businesses and working hard and becoming millionaires, that you think it's possible for you too. But it's really not. It's confirmation bias, like 0.1% of people that start their business make it, the rest are crushed by debt for the rest of their lives. And the ones that do make it are most likely involved in shady shit, or have rich parents/husbands etc...

Alternatively, there are people who work their ass off for 16 hours a day for several years, and do make an above average income. But they burn out eventually, and this kind of story almost always ends in tragedy. They never get to stay at that level.

P.S: I've always had this vague hope that I could maybe skip the life of wageslavery by learning programming and making an app or a video game. Besides the fact that I've tried and I'm too ADHD to learn programming, I keep encountering these sobering blackpills: so many indie devs complain that they spend 3 or 4 or even more years developing their game for many hours every day, and yet they're making no money off it. Shit, it's so sad seeing them try and promote their game on reddit on 4chan, getting like 5 replies.

 

[Deleted member 28903]

Well game dev is retarded. If something is fun, it's almost certainly a horrible thing to try to make money off of. The amount of competition will just be huge.

 

[Deleted member 7448]

Well game dev is retarded. If something is fun, it's almost certainly a horrible thing to try to make money off of. The amount of competition will just be huge.

Yeah but that's not really my main point, it was just a tangent. Although I can't imagine game dev being fun, programming is quite a boring, grueling and arduous activity.

 

[Deleted member 28903]

Yeah but that's not really my main point, it was just a tangent. Although I can't imagine game dev being fun, programming is quite a boring, grueling and arduous activity.

It's not the career for you then. A lot of people find it fun. I don't think it'd be possible to compete with them if you don't find it fun yourself. There are plenty of jobs that pay much better with much less work too.

 

[Deleted member 7448]

It's not the career for you then. A lot of people find it fun. I don't think it'd be possible to compete with them if you don't find it fun yourself. There are plenty of jobs that pay much better with much less work too.

Yeah I didn't even think of it as a potential career. More of a vague dream, like "Hey, maybe I won't have to wageslave at a shitty office job for pennies for the rest of my life, I could potentially learn programming on the side, make a product and make money". I never took it seriously, it's obviously a childish dream, but my brain has to hope something, the reality is too grim. Same idea as "I'll start a business, work 16 hours a day and make a lot of money!"

 

[ThoughtfulCel]

Yeah I didn't even think of it as a potential career. More of a vague dream, like "Hey, maybe I won't have to wageslave at a shitty office job for pennies for the rest of my life, I could potentially learn programming on the side, make a product and make money". I never took it seriously, it's obviously a childish dream, but my brain has to hope something, the reality is too grim. Same idea as "I'll start a business, work 16 hours a day and make a lot of money!"

Its not really a childish dream, you just aren't cut out for it. Some people have the intelligence and mental capacity to create amazing things and profit off of it, and some don't.

 

[Deleted member 7448]

Its not really a childish dream, you just aren't cut out for it. Some people have the intelligence and mental capacity to create amazing things and profit off of it, and some don't.

True. Even if I might have the creativity, I don't have what it takes to make it a reality. Not programming-wise, not drawing-wise.

 

[Mecoja]

In video game market competition is huge and you never know what might work, there are millions of indie games no one will play and there is games like minecraft and flappy bird which are made by one single dude and they became multimillionaires over night.