• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Your high school diploma. Nobody ever asks for it. No job I have ever held has asked for proof that I completed high school which I didn’t. My last job had a class they wanted me to take at a night school and that’s when they realized I didn’t have it after 7 years of competent, exceptional work, so they just shrugged and got me in there anyways

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 days ago

      Shit, I was able to get my GED to get in to college, didn’t complete, and get a job at one of the biggest tech companies on a prestigious project without completing either. But I was self taught and lived and breathed tech stuff to get there at 29 while the people with CS degrees were getting there at 22, so there’s a downside. But it’s just a piece of paper.

  • Melobol@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    The thing that comes only with age is: to not give a fuck.

    When we learn that it doesn’t matter we can all be little old people who are purple mohawk headed, wearing clashing neon adidas jumpsuit with zebra primted boas.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I only learned this a few weeks ago at 40 years old, now my hair is blue, both my ears are pierced and I’m a lot happier. I told my 19 year old daughter that “what will people think?” has been my mantra, now it’s “fuck 'em”

      • Ænima@lemm.ee
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        4 days ago

        Hey, I’m you and you’re me! I also just turned 40 in late September. Happy belated birthday, ya old fart!

      • foggy@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        "at 20, you care the world what everyone thinks of you

        At 40 you learn to not care what anyone thinks of you

        At 60, you realize nobody has been thinking about you at all, the whole time."