Parsing a point to death misses the real point being made by a country mile!!!
Ok, MEDICINE. Or SOMETHING lucrative.
The grass IS often greener. A high school classmate got his law degree several years after I graduated and went to work in Silicon Valley for a year, and he is now the senior counsel for a major IT infrastructure provider (a spinoff of NCR.)
Your mileage will vary.
In some fields and some circumstances, my entire point was that life can and does fall before you in a fairly satisfying upward path.
For us NOT.
Therefore
YOU NEED TO DESIGN YOUR LIFE.
You can always pick someone who entered a good field and made really shitty strategic decisions. So they're kind of like us!
YOU NEED TO DESIGN YOUR LIFE.
Do you disagree with that point or should we continue to debate stupid shit and pick people who almost went out of their way to choose failure? (speaking to ID)
I agree with this very much. You need a plan and need to stick with it. Unless your parents teach it to you, how are you going to learn this? The same thing applies to investing and saving money. They do not teach this in high school nor college.
Frankly I had no plan when I was younger. I started off in art in college, realized there was no money in it and switched to comp sci. Even after switching to comp sci I still did not have a plan. I just figured I would code and make money. Thats it. I didnt have a clue how the world works beyond the whole - work hard, do what you are supposed to do and the world will be your oyster. Boy was that a rude awakening when it hit me.
Corporate America is not about working hard, its really about politics. My parents had this mentality - go to school, get good grades, get hired by a big company like Ma Bell and you will be set for the rest of your life. Be a company man, do what you are told. At one point that may have been true but it was already dying in the 80s/90s.
Than reality hits you. You realize that all that hard work and FREE OT means NOTHING. What you really need to learn is not how to code but how to think like a business. What can you do that benefits the business while benefiting YOU. If you can think this way there really is no reason to work for someone else providing you have a viable business. In my experience most IT people never figure out that the reason they are there is to benefit the business. Than they wonder why they outsource their job to the lowest bidder. HINT: They dont value you or your skills.
I think the most successful corporate people I have encountered, they entered corporate America with the mentality that they were going to ABC. Than they worked toward that goal. They let nothing stand in their way. But the reality a lot of them top out and than never can get beyond a certain level because in reality its all politics.
Most lawyers dont do that well unless you are in some elite law firm representing the rich or big companies. I know a few because I used to fix their computers on the side. A lot of them starve for work. That is why many of them go into real estate law or become judges. In the case of real estate its brain dead paper pushing but they get paid for grinding out the paper. And you cant do real estate transactions without them.
