[HN Gopher] Career Asymtotes
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       Career Asymtotes
        
       Author : neiljohnson
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2025-10-13 08:29 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | actionfromafar wrote:
       | Asym _p_ tote though
        
       | iamnotarobotman wrote:
       | > The point is this: you will be very dissatisfied with your
       | career if you expect a promotion every 2 years. Very simple math
       | would say you're setting yourself up for decades of
       | disappointment.
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       | https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/10/15/pathe...
        
       | Ethee wrote:
       | This kind of self meta-analysis can be amusing to think about
       | sometimes, but I think more often than not it's actually harmful
       | to your own sense of progress or worth. In my opinion the two
       | sides of this coin that are hard to reconcile are: "You shouldn't
       | limit your own ability" and "It's important to be realistic".
       | Comparing yourself to those around you is human nature, but here
       | you're asking us to compare ourselves to what we imagine is the
       | peak of ourselves in order to stay realistic. I guarantee you
       | that the people around you who are actually making forward
       | progress haven't given a single thought to whether or not they've
       | "peaked".
        
       | kazinator wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
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