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[–]girlCtrl-Cgirl interrupt 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, even 10-15 years younger... I've got a perfectly decent job now, in my mid-30s. I can't complain about that. It'd be even more decent if it'd ever been the thing I wanted to do. But, no. My dad was willing to engage some of my interest in such things, but he thought I ought to marry a programmer, not be one. He was killing time with me until my younger brother got old enough to do the cool stuff.

My brother is doing fine, but the unspoken acknowledgment of our whole lives has been that I'm the smart one but he'll be the one who actually does better. Some of that is to his credit: he got more of a work ethic because he had to actually work for his grades. But he's making twice what I do, which seems slightly disproportionate. We're both of us the raving success stories of our family, mind, so I feel guilty even thinking about complaining about the state of my life. At the same time, I wonder a lot about what might have happened if someone in my family had, when I was a kid, seriously entertained the idea that I was going to want a career.

Unfortunately, didn't ever get any kind of expression of regret about any of it.