Ask HN: Are you ok?
Nth-ing no social life and the related whines.<p>I hate the mild feeling of discomfort I get when I tell most people I&#x27;m a software engineer.<p>I hate having eclectic or traditional &quot;nerdy&quot; interests and getting a similar reaction. I&#x27;ve been enjoying Classic, and I have a small online circle for the niche games&#x2F;music&#x2F;art I like.<p>I hate that I like these things in spite of the detriment to my social benefit to liking them. I have no interest in turning off that part of my brain so I can fit into the sportsfan stereotype or netflix-watcher or chronic-substance-abuser or extremely-self-improving-gogetter.<p>Work is okay most of the time, as long as it&#x27;s about work. The environment is pretty lack and understanding. Having a non-work conversation is sometimes impossible because there&#x27;s barely overlap, depending on the person.<p>Basically, it&#x27;s just existential dread. That I have nothing to look forward to but more of the same of this, and the few people I have contact with disappear in one way or the other. Sometimes I ask, why bother?