Ask Lemmy

Accomplishment? My entire career. I'm really glad with where I'm at now.

Now, in a moment? Being able to help my parent buy a house.

Passing the assessment and training process to become a commercial airline pilot. Definitely my proudest accomplishment.

It's a tough choice between some professional accomplishments and my relationship with my wife

I try to not talk about this, though I jumped into a river to save a man who was lying face down and clearly drowning. Unfortunately I did not get to him in time and the bank was far too steep, and the man a solid 6'0 200+lbs, to get him onto any sort of ground.

Just proud that I tried and also proud that I didn't allow the guilt to overtake me.

In remission from cancer.

I was in a patient in a day program at a hospital. This program was different types of mental health information and tasks done in groups. One of those groups was about distorted thinking. You’d pick a random ball of paper and read out what it said. A guy pulled out one and read “I’m not worthy” my instinct was to to jump in and say “it’s funny, I hear that and I know it’s wrong and they are worthy but then I hear it and tell myself I’m not worthy.” I guess there was self awareness that I was trying to make them feel better while not derailing the conversation. I didn’t think much of it and about a week goes by.

It’s a rotation of a few people join and a few others leave. This person day to leave he sits next to me almost in tears and thanks me. Said he saw what I did, but it hit him so hard he had to leave to cry in his car. He thanked me.

It’s something I look at and feel pride because I didn’t do it for any other reason other than it just felt right. It’s something when I struggling I can tell myself you made ‘Jason’ feel worthy. Maybe I actually made a difference regardless if it was small.

I've been a hobbyist musician for the past twenty-something years. I got up the courage to release everything on Distrokid a couple years back. I've gotten 11 million listens! Which gets me about $40, but who gives a shit? People actually listen to my music. And not just the poppier stuff, some of my more popular tracks are the outre noise experiments. I thought I didn't care about that until it happened.

I identified the biggest bottleneck in a solar panel factory and described how it could be more efficient to the Sr Manager of engineering. One month later, they implemented my plan, and output increased by about 15%. Thus, there are thousands more solar panels on Earth right now than there would have been without my unique influence.

So in the summers my cat is outside with me and he has a harness and cord as to not get lost. He gotk himself stuck after having gone around the ladder and I told him "go backwards and around" and he bloody did it, he got himself unstuck by following directions.

Reaching the point where I love myself.

I took a colossal dump an hour ago.

Getting 400,000 views on a story I wrote.

I played keyboards in a truly excellent band about 25 years ago. We caused much dancing.

I set the timer on the dishwasher to finish approximately when I get home after work. However, that day I didn't really know what time I would get home, as there was an after-work BBQ event.

When I arrived at home and stepped into the kitchen, the timer showed 0:00 and shortly afterwards it switched off.

My proudest achievement in like two years.

Got my universiry it team to allow 3rd party 2fa not just the microsoft spyware app.

Starting my first position as a software engineer. I failed at continued academics, and essentially only had a GED. I'm not dumb, I just suck at traditional classroom environments.

I've saved a few dozen kids from genital mutilation, that I know of.

That's probably my proudest achievement to date.

I've also taught a good 50 people to whistle that never could before, and while that's pretty low impact, it still makes me happy.