{"id":1929,"date":"2003-11-08T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/09\/im-such-an-underachiever\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:35:15","slug":"im-such-an-underachiever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/08\/im-such-an-underachiever\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m such an underachiever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12864,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.museumofconceptualart.com\\\/accomplished&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.museumofconceptualart.com\\\/accomplished&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12865,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/29447&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060220011321\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/29447&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 03:28:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 03:28:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some days I think I&#8217;m doing okay in my life. I may not have a set career or a ton of money or anything along those lines, but I&#8217;m not doing too badly.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I find things like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofconceptualart.com\/accomplished\/\" title=\"Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age\">Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  At age 30:<\/p>\n<p>  Mark Twain published his first short story, &#8220;Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen published his book of fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p>  Nat Turner led a slave rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>  U.S. mariner Moses Rogers made the first ocean steamboat voyage.<\/p>\n<p>  Donald Trump persuaded bankers to lend him \\$80 million so he could buy the Commodore Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>  Samuel Morse&#8217;s assistant, Alfred Lewis Vail, devised Morse code.<\/p>\n<p>  Physicist Armand H. L. Fizeau measured the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>  Dr.\u00a0Narinder Kapany invented fiber optics and designed a glass gastroscope which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed view of the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>  Hank Williams overdosed on drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>  Bill Gates was the first person ever to become a billionaire by age 30.<\/p>\n<p>  Earl Vickers started the Dollar Project, in which dollar bills were rubber-stamped as being lost, with a reward offered for their safe return.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/29447\" title=\"youthful endeavor\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I think I&#8217;m doing okay in my life. I may not have a set career or a ton of money or anything along those lines, but I&#8217;m not doing too badly. Then, I find things like this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}