Quarter life crisis: Advice?

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Hello. [LongSelfIntrospectionRantAlert] I'm in my early 20s, out of college for 1 year now with a degree that decrees me as an engineer. Although I've pulled through the better part of my academics with decent grades, I've been fighting what seems to be a losing war with mediocrity. At this time, I'm facing a severe motivational crisis to do any fscking thing in life. In no particular order, the below mentioned points describe my current state of mind and work: a) I hold a long standing consulting career as a developer. I got sucked into this at some point during college. While the money is reasonable (for where I live), the work itself is normally pretty uninspiring. b) I have a modest amount of contributions in f/oss-land. I wish to do more, but frequently turned off by how all the projects I'm related to work. c) I fiddle with a couple of ideas -- mostly forks of f/oss projects. Juggling as many things as I am, and being a one man army, there's very little of achieving much. At this

Published 21 Jun 2010
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