I was lucky to have money to invest at the right time when the markets crashed in 2008 and 2020, when stocks could be had at a 90% discount. As a result I was able to pay off my student loans and put a down payment on my residence with the profits, just by being willing to wait a few years for the market to recover.

I came from an upper middle class family have 2 great parents, and have wonderful extended family near by.

Pro: I never get seasick, no matter how rough it gets. Con: Terrified of heights and flying.

The Lord has blessed me in every way and I’m grateful for every gift and will continue to put them to good use in appreciation.

A lot of people saying white + male, I’m not white but I’m light skinned in a country where colourism is a social plague, random people literally call me “whitey” and “blondy” despite me literally having a black mother, when I tell them I’m not white they reply “yes, you are”, and I’m like “OK, mfer, apparently you know better than me to what ethnic group I belong”. Can’t say I haven’t benefited from it, the police has almost never given me shit (they did once to be exact). I’m also a heterosexual cis man, and even tho I was born and raised in the poorest district of a big city my father always told me to cultivate my intellect, so I learned multiple languages (English being one of those), went to community college, taught myself software development, etc. I didn’t have the biggest head start in life, but compared to my friends in the hood, and women and immigrants across the whole country I simply cannot complain.

A really good immune system. I get a cold maybe once every two years and they only last for about three days. I also don’t get fevers (nobody knows why), which I know is kinda paradoxical but my immune system somehow is really good at dealing with infections despite this.

My dad was a union electrician. His medical benefits literally saved my life. You’ve probably heard how expensive it is to treat type 1 diabetes, well most everything I needed was covered by his benefits, and I did have to deal with a copay at the beginning of the year, but I didn’t have anything denied.

It’s a good attitude to have, to focus on what you have.

I read a book about a holocaust survivor and how little life was worth in the camps. Now I feel genuinely grateful for a warm bed and no wars around here.

Huge dick.

I dunno. I feel I get worse and worse at things the older I get.

I used to have a fair bit of imposter syndrome but now that I’ve been working with a proper team I’ve come too accept I have an aptitude for code and logic in general, alongside a fairly good abstract memory.

I’m not the best by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m a little more competent than the average software engineer, enough that it gets noticed.

I also got lucky and scored a job at 17 in the field (with no nepotism involved), not a great one but enough to look good on my resume, and have been working in the industry for just over a decade with no college.

Though I’m disadvantaged in a lot of ways, I have a really good job with a solid team and a fantastic wage structure. It’s also union and wfh. Super lucky and grateful.

Things I didn’t choose or earn? Taller than the average woman in my country. Both parents were smart as hell, university professors. Dad who thought women had every right and ability to do any job they wanted, we weren’t raised differently based on sex.

Being born in our times.

I still have one working hand, and I can walk.

I seem to be pretty good at English, which is definitely a leg up on billions of people.

I’m actively protected, respected, and cared for by my insular community.

I’m skilled with a microphone and can make whole audiences cackle.

These advantages are enough that I needed to be nerfed in some incredibly heinous ways, and yet I still have such an advantage that I’m usually first- or second-ban in the draft.