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nothing gets by you
I call BS on the philosophy and political science degrees
nothing gets by you
Manny, where did you go to get your atmo science degree? just curious
tbh we don't have that degree here at Tech. I'm majoring in geophysics and minoring in atmo
Pursuing a career you genuinely care about isn't necessarily motivated by a rainbows-and-lollipops belief in the relative unimportance in financial stability.Don't expect the "go into a career you love and desire regardless of pay
For me it was a decision based on the fact that I'd much rather try for the career I want and end up supporting myself as a secretary, than say it and invest a lot of time, money, and energy pursuing something that doesn't move me. It's certainly not because I have a romantic notion that being broke leads to an "authentic" life experience.
I don't have a degree but I am CPP certified and make a decent living. I've been reading and seeing reports about "Is a degree wortht it?" lately compared to a trade school. More in the line of debt vs income I believe.
As a male, it's hard to fathom having the mindset that it's ok to be poor as long as I am doing something I like. I like doing things that aren't cheap to do, or I especially like having that option. Options are great things. Being broke means no options, so unless you love your job so much you think about it on your days off, men better marry a woman who also works if they want to venture down the road you are talking about.
I don't think it's the same outlook for straight men as straight women financially. Many women end up married to someone who pretty much bankrolls the venture, and they might have a "fun" job on the side just to occupy time. As a guy who's been working his entire adult life and much of my childhood, I can tell you that "fun" is the last thing that I would ever look for in employment. I like my job, it's not taxing on me and I have more freedom than most people I know, but tbh I would rather be fishing.
I've seen those articles. What they discount is that the trade school grad will still get into debt over his ears, but if he's maxed out in pay after 10 years doing the same thing, he's at an impasse financially. The degreed individual can more easily level up to a higher pay grade even if that means doing something completely different, if that's what it comes to.
Also, they ignore the fact that most trade schools are in blue collar work where there's a demand, and as the demand changes so does the school's classes. They compare those diesel mechanic certificates with degrees in philosophy instead of an engineering degree, which it most closely matches. No one is going to think "should I go for the liberal arts degree or become a master repair tech?"
It's never better to get just a certificate over a degree, but it's better to have a trade than to answer "I can do anything you need" to the interview question "what can you do for our company?"
There is another way...
You can chase the carrot on the stick your whole life and discover that you will never find happiness by looking for it in material things, accomplishments, achievements,so-called success,etc...
Or you can find out how you were programmed and conditioned since childhood and re-program yourself so you never need anything outside yourself to make you happy.
When you don't crave or need anything you are pretty free to enjoy life regardless of whatever le or label you or society place on yourself.
I have a pretty decent education...it's taken me years to get over it...
Most of them ed up going to lawschool, that's prolly why.
Well, I crave my own yacht, a country club membership, a trophy wife who's in her 20s when I'm 50, and most of all, I wanna be able to go into the strip club with a stack of 100s and make it rain.
I have no choice but to pursue money.
just out of curiosity what area of engineering is your degree in, bro?
tbh silverblk might have it right because you can be a cop and make for money, but you also get to beat the out of n!ggers all night long. Win-win.
Horse .
Try to offer that "happiness" as a down payment on a home or a vehicle.
Tell that to some homeless person the next time you see a sign that says "will work for happiness".
Or you can find out how you were programmed and conditioned since childhood and re-program yourself so you never need anything outside yourself to make you happy.
When you don't crave or need anything, you are dead. Otherwise you need and crave food, water, shelter. You crave a social life and a lifestyle that reflects the work you have put into building something more.When you don't crave or need anything you are pretty free to enjoy life regardless of whatever le or label you or society place on yourself.
Not everyone wants to die in a trailer house fire.
If someone offered you 100,000 a year more than you make now to do something different, live somewhere different, drive something different, would you accept? How about a million?I have a pretty decent education...it's taken me years to get over it...
If it's just haggling over price, it's still about money.
Who are you asking?
And then steal whatever drug money you find. Alonzo Harris could basically have $1,000,000 whenever he wanted it.
Electrical.
How about you?
**Deep inside you know this is true...but people don't really want truth...because truth means that they might have to give up their cravings,addictions, attachments....which are precisely the things that make them unhappy....
No. What makes people unhappy is stress. Stress over financial situations is a killer, and death makes the living unhappy.
I've never seen a happy, broke person who didn't have a means of survival.
Face it: Someone is going to have to support your old ass when you reach retirement age, because happiness won't pay for your property taxes or your medicine, or your electric bill. Resorts don't accept happiness as a form of payment. Airlines won't even talk to you.
You will be a no home walking the dog happy mother er..... eddie.
market is pretty choked with lawyers in lots of places, that is unfortunate.
brave , i only took a lower level circuits class but seems way more conceptual than mechanical imo.
and not an engineer, hopefully in a few years
You still don't get it...nor do I expect you to...you have been programmed and brainwashed your whole life and don't even know it...
What makes people unhappy is the thinking in their head-plain and simple. If your thinking is clear...you are under no stress. What is stress but worrying about things that you have no control over anyway.
Just because you have de-programmed yourself doesn't mean that you are unemployed, broke and/or stupid. Well in your case...you will never rise above stupid because you haven't even figured out you are brainwashed.
I have no financial/retirement financial worries because I have worked my entire life and also had some very lucky breaks...the difference is that I have enjoyed every day of my life no matter what I was doing, where I was working, what hat I was wearing or what label or le people tried to place on me...because I had already gone through the pains of to de-program myself and drop my conditioning.
If I fancy a new toy I just buy it...but I don't ever fool myself into thinking that I NEED these things to be happy...these things don't have anything to do with happiness...neither does success...money...fame... les...achievements, etc....those things are all transitory things that come and go...those are just swings of the pendulum.
Happiness is when you don't give a what anyone thinks...you don't have anything to protect and you don't crave stupid transitory things like success, money, prestige, honor and all of that rot.
You better run harder to catch that carrot on a stick....only to discover you were wasting your time and energy on worthless crap.
Smh
VINCENT: So you're serious, you're really gonna quit?
JULES: Most definitely.
VINCENT: So if you're quitting the life, what'll you do?
JULES: That's what I've been sitting here contemplating. I've decided, basically, I'm gonna walk the earth.
VINCENT: What do you mean, walk the earth?
JULES: You know, like Caine in "KUNG FU", just go from town to town, meet people, and get in adventures.
VINCENT: So you decided to be a bum?
JULES: I'll just be Jules -- no more, no less.
VINCENT: No Jules, without a job, residence, or legal tender you're gonna be a bum!
JULES: Look my friend, this is just where you and I differ --
VINCENT: And when did you make this decision -- while you were sitting there eatin' your muffin?
JULES: Yeah. I was just sitting here drinking my coffee, eating my muffin, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a "moment of clarity."
I think you're dead wrong. True stress is worrying about the things you can control.
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