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- title: Be Humble
- url: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2021/2/5/be-humble/
- hash_url: deb0e4b7e744eb8767d1ad803c7922f3
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- <p>2020 was a crazy and challenging year. Millions of people lost their jobs
- and thousands lost loved ones. But not me. Not just that, I work in an
- industry where I can safely say that most of us didn't really have such a
- terrible 2020 all things considered. Yeah, the pandemic sucks and for
- those of us with kids at home home office was challenging for sure. But
- really just compare that with the experience people have and had that are
- not in such a privileged position.</p>
- <p>And it's not just that programmers and IT folks in general had very little
- to complain about when it comes to the pandemic, we're a really, really
- privileged bunch <em>in general</em>. We get preferred visa treatment which
- makes us one of the most mobile work forces, our profession is universally
- recognized even if we did not actually get a degree, we can work from home
- and we're monetarily compensated in a way that even juniors coming from a
- few month training will out-earn many studied professions.</p>
- <p>With all that money come a lot of inflated egos. This has always been a
- weird thing but over the last year it has really started to annoy me how
- tone deaf some folks are about their personal situation. All that money
- buys you a ton that many can only dream of. You can use that money to
- retire early, that money buys you the freedom to start your own company,
- that money is often enough money to get more money from investors.</p>
- <p>It's nice that people can do that, but the nonchalant way in which this is
- presented online really starts to give my profession an awful reputation.
- Some of you might think that it's great you are all angel investors and
- serial entrepreneurs who work on dodgy immigration arrangements from
- different places in the world, who network on the latest and greatest
- social apps, share their lifestyle in their podcast armed with that fancy
- latte and craft beer and who are making a brand out of themselves.</p>
- <p>I just have one ask: when you do that, be humble and reflect on your
- situation. Most people are not <a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I&t=70s">that lucky</a>.</p>
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