cquin85
December 30, 2025, 7:23pm
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Here’s one:
A well-known saying goes, “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life again,” but an ironic double reading of the same maxim implies that if you spend four years studying basket weaving in school, you will in fact never work a day in your life again… because you’ll be unemployed. Basket weaving is fun, but society also has a need to produce food and feed its citizens. It has a need for people to staff its offices, factories, retail outlets, fire and police stations, hospitals – the list goes on.
It’s time for a paradigm shift. Instead of doing whatever you feel like doing at the moment, choose from the available options in the hope of optimizing future outcomes. My observation has been that those who study topics in school that have no life application end up unhappy and broke when they get out of school.
Examples close to me include my father and my brother (the former earning a master’s degree in “Asian studies”, and the latter receiving a bachelor’s in archaeology a…
There are others.
What I think you will find is that there is a % of the STEM STEM crowd who grossly overestimate how good they are at other things. In fact, somewhat ironically, some of the participants in some of those debates demonstrate that overestimation.
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