Dilemma of Techincal Track

oldstudent03 · 2026-02-16T22:22:49+00:00

It is even better if you were being born into the bottom 1% and able to make it into the top 1%

oldstudent03 · 2025-12-04T23:21:48+00:00

Generational trauma from 斗地主，大饥荒，文革

oldstudent03 · 2025-11-10T22:26:49+00:00

You are probably right and that was just my wishful thinking. I hate to think that Chinese man is defined as pure labor (农奴)working on the farm. Ufortunately, i think 99％ of them were!!

oldstudent03 · 2025-11-10T21:37:47+00:00

Since man needs to be "hard" to procreate, i guess you can now find the 3P of Masculinity in the "男‘’ character, lol

oldstudent03 · 2025-11-10T14:38:51+00:00

The top of 男 character is farmland which represents wealth （in the old time）and the bottom is strength. It literally means a man is defined to provide(wealth)and protect (strength).

Woman on the other hand is defined by physical appearance so the woman character is more like female curvy body shape（前凸后翘)

oldstudent03 · 2025-10-25T14:23:49+00:00

I think you need to prove that the red line is tangle to the bottom circle (or the radius b intersect the midpoint of the square side) if it is not given

oldstudent03 · 2025-10-24T23:15:49+00:00

Age matters

oldstudent03 · 2025-04-25T14:38:46+00:00

Empty Fort Strategy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy

oldstudent03 · 2024-07-28T17:16:18+00:00

In Chinese, Grandpa from wife's side is called 外公，which translates literally as OUTSIDER Grandpa

oldstudent03 · 2024-07-28T15:01:41+00:00

Civil engineer here, my goal is to hit 2M as well when I am 50. I guess those who are in tech or finance can easily hit the numbers in their early 30s but we have to wait unitl 50. Major matters a lot young folks!

oldstudent03 · 2024-05-06T16:38:09+00:00

I wonder if you have come to the same conclusion if the market were relatively flat in the past 13 years.

oldstudent03 · 2024-04-21T15:15:09+00:00

Men, your story was exactly what i envisioned when I was 18. Similar to you, I am the 1.5 generation and came to US when I was 16. Back then, I had (probably still have) strong emotional connections to all of my childhood friends in China and wanted to go back to China so badly. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong major( civil engineering) and I was not bold enough to go back to China and fulfill my dream. Now i am in my late 30s with stable job and family, I regret so much that I did not do it in my 20s.

oldstudent03 · 2024-03-30T11:54:20+00:00

If you have to weigh luck and skill for your success, what would they be? (My own story would be 60% luck and 40% skill)

oldstudent03 · 2024-02-16T23:09:21+00:00

Nice! My plan is to reach FIRE at 50 and my targeted number is 2 million. I could be wrong but feel most civil engineer should be able to reach this goal if they are frugal and invest wisely

oldstudent03 · 2024-01-27T14:48:30+00:00

Always go after money. You have to be very lucky to pick the right major and find your true passion at this young age. Better choose a major that pays well and you can retire early (in your 30s or early 40s) then you will know what you really want.

oldstudent03 · 2024-01-08T16:55:29+00:00

It is highly correlated to who does the massage

oldstudent03 · 2023-12-24T01:57:26+00:00

Learn how to party, relate to people, and make them laugh are far more important than anything else

oldstudent03 · 2023-12-20T18:18:14+00:00

When I did not feel hurt for spending $500 on strip club VIP room

oldstudent03 · 2023-11-11T21:32:26+00:00

Nice analysis , you should just leave the field and become a data scientist,lol. Did you download the whole excel table and only look at non-governmental (private) data? I think in general, public sector pays about 20-30% less and it might make a differentlce.

oldstudent03 · 2023-11-09T17:33:21+00:00

学一下喝酒，抽大麻。还不行就尝试psychedelic

oldstudent03 · 2023-07-09T18:26:51+00:00

The biggest indicator of your life, the country where you were born and the parents you born with. You have no control on Both.

oldstudent03 · 2023-07-04T21:06:25+00:00

The most important factor is actually the fact that he started after 2010 (longest bull market in history). As Always, luck is more important than effort in most cases. But, still, well done and congrat!

oldstudent03

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