BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
@Lurin3D Good work only comes when you're enjoying the process, I don't think anyone would blame you for wanting more than focusing on just "crank out as much of the same thing as possible".
Imo the unexpected randomness is what makes things interesting
@BrianAtlas It's not necessarily because of being too nice, it's being as flavorful as an unsalted pretzel stick. They wanna be comfy, but they also crave random adventure.
Give them a story they can explore where they know it's gonna be enjoyable, but not extremely predictable and boring
@MensHumor Pulp Fiction. Hopelessly drawn out, everything out of order, hasn't aged well, but there's just enough quotable scenes of gold that it's resting on the strongest toothpicks ever made
@financedystop Late 20s, senior role, higher pay, and onsite are all normals words until they're put in the exact same sentence. Red flags all around. Not only is a bunch of that lost in gas and increased car maintenance, but those kinda places also rarely respect boundaries or life events
@onlyskypace 100. Bigger triangle leaves 50 for the angle shared by the smaller triangle, 2 angles of the smaller triangle are identical because 2 sides are identical. That leaves the 3rd angle at the top of smaller to be 80, and the other side of that straight line is x which is 100