Aleksei Ivanov

• 03 Apr, 2026 Not caring about your own work

  Maybe I’m too irritable. But whenever I get compared to somebody who is better off than me financially but obviously—and almost demonstrably does lower quality work than me in everything they do—it makes me mad.

  I mean, sure you can do bare minimum work and still get the paycheck and you don’t even have to pretend to like the work you do. I get it, all of us need to go by and survive.

  But if everything the person does is of noticeably lower quality simply because they don’t care and I get compared with this person — it gets me mad.

  I know I shouldn’t get mad. I know this is my own, probably some sort of “elitist” problem. I also know this post probably won’t age well.

  Let’s just say I don’t like when people don’t give their true selves to anything they do. Not even their passion project or a hobby.

  I probably sound like a bigot right now and that might also be true. Maybe they do their best, try very hard and just cannot improve through the years.

  Maybe my communication skills could be improved as well and still haven’t all throughout the years and I also don’t give my whole self to it. Actually, that’s one of the reasons I do this blog.

  Not that it’s a good enough excuse…

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• 03 Apr, 2026 Not caring about your own work
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• 28 Mar, 2026 Not knowing what to say
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