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To: SeekAndFind
Bottom line: Find something you believe in that you love to do, and work hard at it.

This contradicts the exhortation earlier in the article to concentrate on engineering, math, and computer programming, advice which really needed a qualification: they're hard and they take a sort of work that not everybody enjoys or is good at (and those are not the same thing). Coding, for one - it used to be a great entry level job but guess what? Good coders are rare and it's hard work with a high burnout rate. The notion that anyone can code may be technically true in the sense that anyone can do heart surgery but you probably don't want "anyone" doing yours.

The cruel fact is that the majority of people doing the majority of work aren't involved in something they passionately love, they're involved in an opportunity they found that pays well enough to keep body and soul together and a roof over their heads. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it turns out that one way to learn to hate something you used to love is to do it for a living. There is, fortunately, a flip side to that: one way to learn to love something you didn't is to do it for a living, too.

I enjoy inspiring young people with my own example: look at me, this is your future, old and wrinkled and yelling at clouds and driving in the fast lane at 40 mph with my turn signal on. This is the face of success, kids! Strangely, I never seem to be invited back as a motivational speaker...

16 posted on 09/30/2019 9:06:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

LOL!


20 posted on 09/30/2019 9:17:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The potential for miscalculation and chaos is substantial." ~ Kevin Williamson)
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