I took awhile before reading this installment, but its completely on point. I remember a guy i hired while working at a (large database company). He was a software guy from China. One day a bunch of us were talking about our backgrounds, how we got to (the company) etc. and he related his story, which involved *swimming to Hong Kong* with his family (he was 10 or 11 at the time) during the Cultural Revolution in China. (I was i think 7 at the time he was doing that). They were doing that because his father was some sort of teacher (maybe at a college, I don't remember) and they were *killing people like that* in the town he lived in at the time. It really put everyone's struggles in perspective, lets say.
Counterpoint: our generation's zone of comfort is too narrow.
There was that guy from Serbia whom I worked with a couple of years ago, and he wanted to leave for some startup or other. I told him to reconsider, as he was about to leave a quite cushy government-type job (same as mine) for a higher-risk, (hypothetically) higher-reward venture. He told me “I escaped a war-torn county at the end of my childhood, I don't care about comfort all that much”... This got me thinking.
I grew up in a village with a very similar socioeconomic situation within my family, and this post resonates with me a lot! With years I think I'm getting better at not comparing myself to others but rather with myself from the past.
I took awhile before reading this installment, but its completely on point. I remember a guy i hired while working at a (large database company). He was a software guy from China. One day a bunch of us were talking about our backgrounds, how we got to (the company) etc. and he related his story, which involved *swimming to Hong Kong* with his family (he was 10 or 11 at the time) during the Cultural Revolution in China. (I was i think 7 at the time he was doing that). They were doing that because his father was some sort of teacher (maybe at a college, I don't remember) and they were *killing people like that* in the town he lived in at the time. It really put everyone's struggles in perspective, lets say.
Counterpoint: our generation's zone of comfort is too narrow.
There was that guy from Serbia whom I worked with a couple of years ago, and he wanted to leave for some startup or other. I told him to reconsider, as he was about to leave a quite cushy government-type job (same as mine) for a higher-risk, (hypothetically) higher-reward venture. He told me “I escaped a war-torn county at the end of my childhood, I don't care about comfort all that much”... This got me thinking.
Here's a 2 min audio version of "Be happy about your journey" from Wednesday Wisdom converted using recast app.
https://app.letsrecast.ai/r/678519f2-d1e3-4c44-ab78-56d29eda6e65
I grew up in a village with a very similar socioeconomic situation within my family, and this post resonates with me a lot! With years I think I'm getting better at not comparing myself to others but rather with myself from the past.