low grade ambient awareness is a nice way of describing the all encompassing anxiety that is my life here in america
at the end of the day the two ways you can contribute to a company is with hours, compromise, and talent.
if you’re not willing to compromise (look the other way on sketchy things), not viewed as having talent because you were born without a silver spoon up your ass (despite all this talk about tech being a meritocracy), and if you suffer from anxiety/depression you may not be physically capable of performing the amount of work needed to “make up” for this
