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I'll go first...after 10 years of speculating in the market (read: gambling in high risk assets) I realized I shouldn't ever touch a brokerage account in my lifetime. A monkey would have made better choices than I did. Greed has altered the course of life many times over. I am at an age where I may recover from my actions over the decades, but it has taken its toll. I am frugal and have a good head on me, but having such impulsivity in financial instruments was not how I envisioned my adulthood. Its a bitter pill to swallow, since money is livelihood of my family, but I need to "invest" all I have into relationships, meaningful moments, and fulfilling hobbies.

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[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 31 points 20 hours ago

It's easy to do when we're all surrounded constantly by the paradox of money meaning nothing at all, but also the only material thing that dictates the action and activity of everything past and future

Biggest Pill I've had to swallow is that no matter much I love programming and will continue my computer hobbies for life. I will never make a profession out of it. I'm slowly coping with the fact that all my work will ultimately influence very nearly nothing at all...

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

On the other hand I have found a lot of people who turn the hobby they love into a business and it ruins the joy they found in their hobby.

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

That is certainly a bright side of the matter isn't it. Maybe keeping the joy alive is more critical than the bread?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I feel you. I think about how intangible code is and how quickly that will fade from existence... It's heavy, to say the least. And yet the challenge ever calls me to solve a problem with ones and zeroes.

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