Sometimes I regret my choice of doing software engineering only to be glued to a computer my whole adult life working at optimizing systems for large corporations to maximize their already huge profit and contributing nothing of significant value to humanity.
I’d rather be riding around on an ATV outdoors with the sun and trees and flowers and birds collecting soil and rocks and stuff.
Apply to the public sector ? I’m doing that, fuck waking up to increase profit margins of someone else
Honestly? Sounds like a pretty decent life path
I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.
Does he… not know about climate change? lol
I mean, yeah, but he spent his whole workday riding around in the woods on an atv. He came to my little gas station to fill up his truck and atv and he was always happy.
He also inspected mines, I think most of his job was about looking for runoff from the mines.
He probably knows a whole lot about soil biodiversity collapse. Close enough
Anon teaches us that making seemingly random choices and going for it is better than making no choices at all
As someone a bit older than most on these sites, I can say with confidence, if you have any kind of solid plan for your life you’re going to get royally fucked over.
If you want any chance of happiness in your life, you have to ride a balance between working towards goals, but also learning to love and appreciate wherever life takes you, even if it’s in the opposite direction. Because the harder you try to fit into an image you make for yourself, the harder life pushes back.
I know all this sounds like a wood-etching in grandma’s kitchen, but it’s 100% true and if you don’t get it now… you will.
I wonder why self-intro in college application asks so much about life plan, when it is not remotely how we should live.
Those kinds of things, along with work-interviews and small-talk at gatherings and why your boss talks to you at the urinal, because it’s far more about viewing how someone presents themselves and conforms to societal expectations.
Not necessarily in negative, overbearing way, often this is literally how we appraise people all day, all the time. This is how we keep from inviting psychotic strangers into our tribe who may cause damage. Just seeing if they can conduct themselves as we expect so we know they are likely to hold to their end of our social contracts.
(All of this is also why we’re such a racist and scared species, which is also what inspires college self-intros.)
Colleague asks to do Environmental activism
Don’t know what that means, but sure why not
mfw blowing up oil pipes
'How many credits do we get with this field project?"
I have a family friend who grew up near a creek. He loved bass fishing, so when he heard that invasive carp were eating bass eggs he took that personally.
He’d go out night after night bow hunting carp. He’d kill them and throw them on the bank for animals to eat. Dozens of these huge fish every night for years.
Eventually he cleaned out several miles of the creek by his house, and it’s some of the best bass fishing in the area.
tl;dr - He got a degree in fisheries.
Man really is all about that Bass; no treble.
People, man.
One man can create a great local environment with time.
And then there’s how much a group could do. How much more could they do if they just got one or two more to join?
And yet some of us just sit here, feeling a bit depressed and purposeless.
Went to college, had GPA issues.
Stoner neighbor friend says " Bro, you should do undergrad research at some lab at school, it’s really easy and they give you an A at the end of the semester.
ok
do undergrad bitch work get easy A
They ask me to do a master’s. Ok
they told me I could do a PhD. Ok
apply to national lab for post doc
accepted
working there 10+ years
boss retiring, says I have to run the research group now
its ok
My drinking buddy is a neuroscientist.
Same story. Went to college uncertain what he wanted. Did liberal arts, realized he was always curious about how the brain works, and just kept pushing through.
He’s not really sure how he was going to make a living, but he’s good at what he does and it’s the only thing that keeps him going.
A few drinking sessions prior, we celebrated over him submitting a paper that took five years to write.
Great. Wonderful. Really happy for you, anon. >:{
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I’m jealous of anon making a living out of sampling dirt
At least Anon didn’t pick Law like so many people do when they don’t know what to do after high school.
Could’ve also done business and become reprehensible.
Disrupt the market by exploiting your customers and employees. Such innovation! One golden parachute please
When I was at school everyone picked criminal psychology when they didn’t know what to do. Not sure what that says about my school.
