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People who gave up on "the dream", do you regret it? How are you? (lemm.ee)

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wanted to work for NASA one day. I realized I was a dumb motherfucker, could barely pass HS maths, so now I'm a cybersec drone.

But my job is extremely chill WFH, so i get to explore my other interests so much more. It was never meant to be, that's okay.

Now I just want to get good at something and use that to do stuff that I can be proud of, that I can show to other people and they can be impressed by.

I feel like all my life people just do things so much more easily than what comes to me and I don't have any talent, so that doesn't help, I don't want to be some schmuck that just watches TV or scrolls social media poisoning herself with alcohol all her life.

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