Is this as good as it gets?

Work is mostly social and mind-numbing. It’s getting more difficult to BS. The hardest part is seeing cool work being made on LinkedIn and stalking people’s portfolios. 

Does it get better? Maybe I don’t want to know. 

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If you’re seeing cool work being made on LinkedIn, that’s a sign that this isn’t as good as it gets.

Yes, the real end game is continually criticising everything on LinkedIn because it’s ‘no longer like in the good ol’ days’ while making nothing noteworthy yourself.

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