Love this. I hear from young people all the time “I wanted to be an investment banker but then I learned it’s really just a desk job” (did you think you’d be on top of an oil rig when working on an energy acquisition?). Or “I thought marketing sounded really cool but then I learned that my college required statistics for a marketing major and I hate math”. (did you really think that companies spend millions of dollars on a marketing campaign without doing a test market, user research, etc.?) And my favorite, “Forensic accounting seemed really cool until I learned you need to be really good at Excel”. Did you think the forensics here referred to plucking DNA samples out of a company’s corpse?
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