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After reading on HN about the miners in England yesterday, it's difficult to generate too much sympathy for your situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

After reading on HN about the miners in England yesterday, it's difficult to generate too much sympathy for your situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677863 I hope that you translate your passion into using technology to truly help make the world a better place.

noir_lord 11y ago
The guy is clearly burnt out and your best response is "well at least you don't work in a coal mine". You could argue "well at least those coal miners didn't live in Ethiopia or Rwanda" There is exactly one person on this planet at any time who has it worse than everyone else, everything else is just relative.
adenot 11y ago
I thought the same thing... first world problems in its essence.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago
  So just because someone has it worse you have to enjoy your job? Doesn't work like that. What the OP realised is that money is no good if chasing it wrecks your time. Is he lucky to be able to choose another way? Yes, but that doesn't make his decision any less valid.
  - adenot 11y ago
    Sure he has his reasons but it's most because he is making a decision that he believes is the right to do, not because his employer did something wrong. I am in the exact same situation as him (without the equity large enough to cover my mortgage), but I recognize my last employer was actually good to me, my unhappiness was not their fault.
- heidar 11y ago
  Also typical in the first world: ignoring and belittling mental problems like they are inferior to physical ones. Both suck but just in different ways.
aaronem 11y ago
> using technology to truly help make the world a better place This from someone whose accomplishments include mobile advertising and an app that recapitulates hotlinked YouTube annotations? If you're going to make the argument personal, you'll do well to ensure first that doing so won't undermine the moral high ground you're attempting to take.
- eevee 11y ago
  Phew. I was worried for a moment that making the world a better place would be really hard, but it sounds like the GP has set a really low bar for me.
thomas943 11y ago
> I hope that you translate your passion into using technology to truly help make the world a better place. I wouldn't hold out too much hope for that. It sounds like they quit because they would rather play with pokemons.

noir_lord 11y ago

The guy is clearly burnt out and your best response is "well at least you don't work in a coal mine". You could argue "well at least those coal miners didn't live in Ethiopia or Rwanda" There is exactly one person on this planet at any time who has it worse than everyone else, everything else is just relative.

adenot 11y ago

I thought the same thing... first world problems in its essence.

ZenoArrow 11y ago
So just because someone has it worse you have to enjoy your job? Doesn't work like that. What the OP realised is that money is no good if chasing it wrecks your time. Is he lucky to be able to choose another way? Yes, but that doesn't make his decision any less valid.
- adenot 11y ago
  Sure he has his reasons but it's most because he is making a decision that he believes is the right to do, not because his employer did something wrong. I am in the exact same situation as him (without the equity large enough to cover my mortgage), but I recognize my last employer was actually good to me, my unhappiness was not their fault.
heidar 11y ago
Also typical in the first world: ignoring and belittling mental problems like they are inferior to physical ones. Both suck but just in different ways.

aaronem 11y ago

> using technology to truly help make the world a better place This from someone whose accomplishments include mobile advertising and an app that recapitulates hotlinked YouTube annotations? If you're going to make the argument personal, you'll do well to ensure first that doing so won't undermine the moral high ground you're attempting to take.

eevee 11y ago
Phew. I was worried for a moment that making the world a better place would be really hard, but it sounds like the GP has set a really low bar for me.

thomas943 11y ago

> I hope that you translate your passion into using technology to truly help make the world a better place. I wouldn't hold out too much hope for that. It sounds like they quit because they would rather play with pokemons.