Tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more

>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more

I'm 25 and I was thinking about this, maybe 10% of the people I know from high school have "made it" despite that, people still don't have real jobs anymore

>>Consultant for Consultants and Company Consultants
>>Software Developer for Software Co.
>>IT guy at Pajeets

>not being motivated to do more by the success and wellbeing of your peers

Some small percentage, yes. Literally 2 guys out of 98 in my uni class are the tryhards who try and get As.
Thank you but I'd rather not take stress medication to achieve a useless grade.

I think out of 30 people in my class, only 5 people went to university or college. Out of those 5 people, there are 4 girls and 1 guy, me being the guy.

Also out of those 5 people, only 3 of us have jobs relevant to our studies.

>Tryhards who try and get As

so silly that you actually think that way. Speaking as someone who had no problems getting As in uni without working hard for it, those people are most likely just smarter than you.

No, we're all on the same intellectual level, some people just enjoy putting in the extra effort. I'm in the best university my country has to offer, and getting an A has diminishing returns for effort.

>tfw people the same age as you are actually doing something they really enjoy

How would you explain that to a future employer?

It's a small country and most of the talent, tryhards included, brain leaks towards Europe and America. I needn't worry for a job position.

>best university my country has to offer
As was I, didn't stop a bunch of idiots being in my uni class though.

>tfw people your age have moved out of home. Have a job & a beautiful 2D girlfriend.

4/5 of the people who started at uni with me dropped out or needed to retake courses.
There is no point in getting depressed over the 20% who also made it as I am doing better than the 80% who enrolled for the education.
I am 27, I have a master in engineering, I have lived on my own for the past 10 years and I don't have any debt.
I have two educations in fields that is unlikely to get me unemployed.
There will always be people more successful than me, but overall, I am doing fine.

Memory =/= intellect

Nice! What country?

Not sure what you're implying, the exams are heavily based on face-to-face interviews with each professor.

How did you not incur any debt? Are you American? I'm thinking about going back to school to finish my degree.

Bulgaria. Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University.
I'm doing Informatics, the toughest in terms of subject count and material covered. It's basically applied maths + CS.

All you're expected to do is reproduce works other have done, but present it in a form that makes it look like your own.

That's what I initially thought and now I'm repeating first year.

Technically op is tfw doing better than people your own age

>>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more
like what? who is pic related?
when did Sup Forums become /r9k/?
at least go on /sci/ to cry about being lazy

I just wanna have coffee in my hand every morning
I was never built for big things

The fuck? In Aus, the first year of Uni is damn near a carbon copy of year 11. You must really be retarded.

>Failed at school
>Snuck into university via a back door
>work hard year 1 but get meh grades, everyone else gets A's
>Go all out years 2 and 3, cut all freinds off, zero socialising. Studying becomes my life.
>90% of the rest of the class start to slip as things get tougher
>Finish with the best degree score of the year
>Many others have to re-sit exams
>get offered great engineering job with fantastic salary, car, computer phone and other benefits
>Last time I spoke to a classmate it was "caramel latte please"
>get married and have a kid
>realise freinds will only hold you back in the end.

We have year 12 here. And it would make sense, since I'm not from "Aus".

t. barista

>tfw people the same age as you are achieving much more
What feel is that?
Always wondered how everyone else around me feels.

We have year 12 as well...

So? It is almost invariably going to be so.

Everyone can't be the top 1%.

>barista
thats the name they came up to compensate their life failures huh

So, OP?

Has a better ring to it than "coffee bitch"

>the toughest
the fact that you couldn't get into the comp sci programme (the actual toughest one) shows a lot about your intellectual level, now stop spewing shit

Really you can call most of them Punky Brewster now.

>there's hundred millions of people of any age
>unironically believing that anyone you will ever meet across your entire life will at any point in their entire lives be top 2 "most achieving" person of all people their respective age
>honestly entertaining the thought that it could ever be you

What does this have to do with technology?
People the same age are also achieving much less. Take your autistic cuckery back to and don't come back.

If you're talking about the same university, no. Comp sci is a joke and their lecturers put no stress on the students during exams. They also study less math than us and all courses are not as in-depth.

>I'm not a special snowflake, now what?

1, Work hard
2, Have a family
3, Enjoy life
4, Stay healthy

I study applied maths & informatics at TU and can safely say you don't need that much math to be good at comp sci or informatics. The maths you do need are all included in SU's comp sci course, so why didn't you get into the comp sci programme?

Young self took a bite too big to swallow and thought I'd just study extra hard. I did have enough points for CS, though.
I had also heard Informatics' programming lecturers are the most thorough and professional, which turned out to be true.
How's TU's programming course. What did you study and for how long?

It's absolute shit and I wouldn't learn anything had I not known it prior to starting the course.

> working on a doctorate in chemistry
> 22
Yep, people my age have achieved more than me...

Meh
Many more people the same age as me, and older, are achieving much less. It doesn't really matter. People are different.

>im a fuckup who dropped out of university and works a retail wagecuck job
>my friend owns his own hedgefund
>one of my old coworkers works for Google now
>another works for SpaceX
>we're all the same age

JUST

>teamwork assignments

Sucks ass when you're the smart one. Especially when your work is usually A's only then you get stuck with someone who barely knows anything and is usually a C student, thus drags your assignment down to a B. Happened so many times until I just manipulated my usual teamwork partners into letting me do all the work on the shit we would get graded on and made them do everything else that wasn't important and didn't get graded.

Seriously, fuck teamwork. I guess it's an exercise in how to deal with retards.

This.

The moment I gave up at having what was sold to me as a "normal" social life is when I started to excel at life. Instead of having to worry about committing to things with other people, I was free to jump on any good opportunities that arose, and life became easy.

"I prefer the challenges of real world work environments more than the classroom. I'm a much better learner with hands on experience"

>giving a fuck
get a degree, get a job that isnt shit, get a decent apartment/house, get a significant other, enjoy life.

there are 7 billion humans on earth and every single one has somebody to be jealous of

going down that road can only lead to madness

There are a lot of people who need to be programming small things, too.

>1 month into uni
>TEAMWORK ASSIGNMENTS
>"I'm sure you guys know eachother by now, so in this assignment you get to choose your own partners!"

>22
>gitting gud with Linux since the beginning of high school
>drop out of CS due to health problems
>only high school on paper
>3 years of NEETing
>health NEETbux runs out
>get serious about finding a job
>land a Linux sysadmin job in a far away city
>it doesn't pay great, but allows me to rent a room and live on my own
>3 months pass
>get a job offer in a foreign country
>3.5 times the pay
>leave after the 4th month, to start working at the new company
>job is much more pleasant
>do what I like the most
>literally play with and test the latest technologies
>comfy city
>eat out everyday
>living expenses are only about 1/3 of what enters my account
>mfw it's only going to get better from now on

>forgetting the law of diminishing returns

This was the worst part of Uni.

Just 3 hrs socialising a day between years 16-24 wastes a year of your life. People just don't realise the time they waste and then whine that things just didn't work out for them. Freinds are career cancer. Short term validation at the cost of long term success.

kill yourself

That's the real fucking kicker

at retard community college, maybe

Tfw I'm the achiever

>not having exams with open books
Your professor is doing it wrong.

>low IQ detected

git gud @ life

What about the le networking meme? I have trouble believing it if you're a social retard.

Life isn't a fuckin game bitch.No one cares.

actually it kinda is....survive, get rich or die trying

>git clone gud@life/life.git
>vi README
>"Life is an illusion. Kys."

>tfw people the same age as you have 100 times the wealth of all your family for doing absolutely nothing
t-thanks capitalism

>tfw people the same age as you are fucking literal supermodels
t-thanks genetics

>tfw people the same age as you are living the dream
t-thanks chad

New York only looks pretty when looked from way above.

At least I don't look like an alien with Asperger's

its took me six years to finished my EE degree.
i fucking hate my uni peoples and classmate they are just asshole

what why

+ you level raises as time goes on (i.e. age)
+ you earn experience
+ you earn money doing quests (i.e. jobs)
+ you learn and update your skills
+ things become easier with social links
+ existence of achievements
+ existence of victory conditions
>rich, children, degree, others?

Life is a just a long, difficult and uninteresting game.

>No, we're all on the same intellectual level

The indoctrination worked on you lad

>22 years old with no diploma

I stopped after a failure, something you should never do. God damn life hurts.

>(YOUR AGE HERE) is more successful than you!
>16 year old graduates harvard and invents a new FaceBook!
>12 year old builds a quantum computer!
>8 year old girl programs a calculator to solve her math homework!
>6 year old speaks three languages!
>3 year old plays Chopin's Op25 No12 "Ocean Waves"!

Yeah, nearly all of us here have been long gone in that department.

Just accept the fact that there's always someone better than you at something. If you spend your life negatively comparing yourself to those people, it's just gonna make things needlessly depressing.

You are here because you wanted to be here. If you truly gave a fuck about doing something, then you'll give that fuck.

No reception here
I wave my black phone
In the air like a flare
like a prayer
but no reception
I read on the Internet, baby face boy billionaire
Phone app sold made more money in one day than my family over 100 generations
More than my whole world ever has
World where house-buying jobs became rent-paying job became living with family jobs
Boy billionaires
Money is access, access to politicians waiting for us to die lead, in our water, alcohol and painkillers
Replace my job with an app, replace my dreams of a house and a yard
With a couch in the basement
"The future is yours!"
Forced 24-7 entrepreneurs.
I just want a paycheck and my own life
I'm on the couch in the basement they're in the house and the yard
Some night I will catch a bus out to the west coast
And burn their silicon city to the ground

...

I'm a 21 year old beaner, I have a job and go to college. Haven't known of any of my peers locally that have "made it" at least not by their own means (wealthy parents); except for a friend of mine who has started a PET plastic business.

I don't complain, I've always pressured myself to do better tho and right now I feel like I can so I'm coding a little site, from back end to front end and DevOps this summer to see if anything good comes out of it (plus the experience).

I teached myself to code since I was 13 and got straight A's on everything until I got disappointed of the education system here in Mexico and stopped giving a shit, so my grades are shit but whatever.

I've gotten shit grades all my life because teachers were never able to explain why the knowledge would be useful.

I find it difficult to hoard my brain with information that I believe is useless.

Had aspirations of being a 'hacker' and started learning programming. I learned C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS all in 6th grade. I was interested in programming and knew there was a future in it.

I passed highschool with a shit grade. The only reason i passed was high grades in English and Computer Science (it was Java and pathetic beginner level Java at that)

Parents would not buy me a PC, but were more than willing to pay thousands for college. Got an internship at a software company, worked my way up there, used the on-paper experience to find better jobs.

I now work as an IT specialist in a high profile law firm, and earning 3x the salary than all my fuckface friends that went to college for worthless degrees.

>old friend enlists after college
>im working minimum wage retail
>his grandmother sees me there
>she tells me all about how well hes doing
>he dogged me in the past so fuck him but im very polite to her
>about a week later she calls out of the blue asking me asking if i had thought about enlisting (trying to get that sweet referral)
>tell her im not interested
>sighs to me on the phone
>try to sound confident and talk highly of myself
>shes not interested and basically hangs up

i didn't really care but seriously what the fuck

Sounds like me, but my parents forced me into college. I loved the idea of being challenged with hard coding problems until I realized teachers there are all entitled, talentless people that attend only to collect the paycheck (#NotAll)

>jealousy
pathetic

Networking can come once you get a foot in a good company. Just keep everybody as 'acquaintances'. I am not a social retard, I have zero friends by choice. I also have close to 1000 contacts in my work phone and do the company nights out etc. Prefer my little bubble with wife and kids :)

>wastes a year of your life
mfw I realize I wasted 5 (five) years being a NEET

Topkek, you're delusional.

Get the degree now, failing once doesn't mean you stop trying

I did ECMI there last year

A wiser man than me once summarized your post in one sentence:
>Whatever it is you do, a seven-year-old Korean does it better.

>tfw people much younger than you are actually doing anything besides sitting on Sup Forums

>tfw "archiving more" only means that they work their asses off but stay fucking stupid

>How would you explain that to a future employer?
What future employer?

This but 7 years of being NEET.

>no idea what I want to do
>spend 4 years taking a little bit of everything at Community College while I worked as a software engineer for a startup
>Graduate with Associate of Arts in "General Studies"
>startup goes belly up
>5 years of experience but no degree, so I'm stuck as an intern
>finally give up and figure I'll just stick in software
>transfer to university to get Bachelor's in Computer Science
>because I dicked around in CC, I'm missing a ton of pre-reqs
>going to take around 3 years to finish my degree

Don't fuck around, kids.

>26 and 2 semesters left
We're all gonna make it, brother.

>Hello Employer X, I would like to preface this interview with a clear condition for my participation. I will not accept work that leads to no reasonable goal just because someone made the decision i had to work two hours more than i would have if i did my work sensibly

>tfw you literally don't care

I'm surprised you weren't easily able to find something with 5 years experience. Is it really that bad in America?

>majoring in psychology
>govt is really corrupt. University is powered by the state; university receives no funds, so they go on a strike
>there's a strike every six months that lasts from two to five months
>during strikes I study CS on my own, as well as Linux and program some stuff of my interest
>I take some classes from the official CS curriculum but I can't stand them because of the sense of the sense of obligation
>tfw you learn better and with more passion on your own
>tfw you can't stand going to college
>tfw I love to study but I hate making it an obligation so I think about trashing my major every day
>tfw analysis paralysis

Most employers use automated applicant screening to match for qualifications and keywords.
Probably the first filter they do is "do they have a bachelor's degree?"

So realistically, most companies I applied to probably don't even know that I have 5 years of experience.
They never even saw my resume because their software filtered me out in the first round for lack of a bachelor's degree.

what city, user? Looking for a comfy city with a tech market myself