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Sisyphus

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Greek mythological figure condemned to eternally roll a boulder up a hill, referenced in a creative prose piece about a perpetually small puppy as a metaphor for endless, futile existence.

Mentions (7)
"I'm a software engineer and I'm casually taking a pulse on the job market right now. I've been preparing for interviews (leetcode, system design) for a few months now. However, I can't even get an interview with 3 YoE and a masters."
Was applying for jobs always this Sisyphean? · Due-Investment-810 · ↑155 · 2024-04-02
"sometimes i wonder if the puppy still gets tired or maybe even wants to sleep, but can't, and so is stuck in this endless state of being that is like rolling that rock up that hill."
nobody told me about sisyphus until just now · u/koyaanisqatsi____ · ↑49 · 2023-02-24
"forgive the sincere posting, but just realized that almost all of life is extremely ordinary, and there is no great, golden paradise just on the other side of suffering (at least not on this plane of existence anyway). one must imagine sisyphus happy, i realize but how do you all cope with the work,"
anyone out there struggling to find the point of being alive? · u/hertfordmarlboro · ↑42 · 2025-09-27
"Sisyphus and his stone but its the annual video of a young wunderkind in Rural Africa invent a water powered car or a windmill"
"sometimes i wonder if the puppy still gets tired or maybe even wants to sleep, but can't, and so is stuck in this endless state of being that is like rolling that rock up that hill."
nobody told me about sisyphus until just now · u/koyaanisqatsi____ · ↑49 · 2023-02-24
"Sisyphus and his stone but its the annual video of a young wunderkind in Rural Africa invent a water powered car or a windmill"
"once i can start imagining Sisyphus happy my haters are toast"
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