Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: I'm so fucking good at stuff, but so fucking bad at showing it to people. It didn't ...
I'm so fucking good at stuff, but so fucking bad at showing it to people. It didn't help that a lot of people usually punished me/ignored me if I showed off my skills too much to people and no one taught me how to impress employers and get experience and network back when I was a teenager and really freakin' needed to start learning that stuff, in an economy that had extremely steep barriers to entry for newcomers thanks to minimum wage laws and inflation dynamics at the time.
I never focused on learning that stuff until I started to desperately need it in my late teens and early 20s when I finally realized I had to START learning, so I lagged like crazy and started to carry a major credit card debt burden. No one ever taught me. No one. With public school usurping so much of my time as a teen, though I craved getting a job at something like a newspaper route, I didn't pursue it actively as I would had either my parents encouraged me or my school gotten off my back with the endless drudgery of that particular form of slavery. I should have pursued it. The minute I knew I wanted it, I should have brought it up and not been shy.
I never focused on learning that stuff until I started to desperately need it in my late teens and early 20s when I finally realized I had to START learning, so I lagged like crazy and started to carry a major credit card debt burden. No one ever taught me. No one. With public school usurping so much of my time as a teen, though I craved getting a job at something like a newspaper route, I didn't pursue it actively as I would had either my parents encouraged me or my school gotten off my back with the endless drudgery of that particular form of slavery. I should have pursued it. The minute I knew I wanted it, I should have brought it up and not been shy.