there's a specific type of jealousy i feel watching 40+ guys in tech.


They got in when "software engineer" was enough.
No LeetCode marathons. No 500 applicants per role. No AI threatening to automate the whole job in 3 years.
Just.. get the job. Stay. Rise. Accumulate.
Now they're in senior or managerial roles earning in crores, with enough saved that layoffs are an inconvenience not a catastrophe.
They became the reason every Indian parent spent a decade saying "beta, CS karo."
And they weren't wrong. For their generation it was the cheat code.
The frustrating part isn't that they had it easier.
It's that the ladder they climbed got pulled up right after them.
The rules changed. The expectations multiplied. The competition went global.
Same destination. Completely different road.
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