Lunacy in the Modern Age

Home Blog About Me Links Contact

• 23 Jan, 2026 *

How about some uncomfortable truths in IT/tech for our initial entry?

1. There’s no path from the bottom-up like there used to be and it’s not coming back. If you’re anything like me, you’ll work a $8/hr desk job answering phones for a year and advance and go from there. But, there are far fewer places that experience will take you nowadays. Plan ahead, if you’re going to be in tech or are in school for tech or engineering, HAVE A GOAL. Reassess it constantly for it’s future-proofness. Or rather, your ability to adapt and keep it as a job once and IF you get it.
2. If that goal no longer seems attainable, drop it and focus elsewhere. Don’t play the game of diminishing returns with the one thing we can call precious, our time on this earth.
3. AKA - Move the goal posts as you move, don’t move around them or put them in silly places to make yourself feel good. Admit the goal is no longer viable, focus-up, and find a new one.
4. If you are young and feeling down about the state of things, I am sorry to tell you, us Millennial folk will fight right alongside you, but you have more in this than us at this point. As we age, the disparity gets worse but know that we will always understand your struggle better than any other generation since we carved many of it’s paths by just being told what to do. IE - College, job, wife, kids, American Dream yadda, yadda. It’s all bullshit and always was. Any economist worth their salt in my day, the late 80s, would tell us that post-WWII American "awesomeness," was never going to last. Oh hey surprise, it didn’t.

Side note: The concept of Millennial aging is wild because we were the butt of all those jokes in and out of the press just a handful of years ago...

Nobody owes you anything. This isn’t just a tech thing, it’s a life thing. I have realized that goals I didn’t achieve or X or Y thing I didn’t attain were attributable to my direct interaction with the thing(s) that could have made those realities possible. We falter on our own swords, even if the ground gets kicked out by say, your employer. 1.

Save money. Save it to live if you need it. No investing shoddy coin crap, no trying to game the system. At the end of the day, paying off your mortgage with reliable cash is better than wondering if you could have paid it that month if you just hadn’t made X or Y "wrong" move in the market.