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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
How many of us have always known what we wanted to be (as children) when we grew up and then went on to fulfill that?
The you have to go to college and declare your major by 18 years old is so messed up. True, some children/young adults know and have a certain capability or talent shown early on, but for many, myself included, we go into it nearly directionless. I thought I knew what I wanted. I ended up wasting time and money. Yes, I did get to make friends and try new things, but it took me years to figure out that I don't really know what I want. I have figured out that I enjoy working with my hands and can do some things quite well. Even now, 7 years of college later, I still couldn't declare any one thing to focus on. Maybe I'm more inclined to be well-rounded. I do get bored with a job once I figure it out and get it running efficiently. I like troubleshooting.
Watching my son's interests and what he's good at, I'm trying to instill it in him that he doesn't have to buy into going to college. He doesn't need to start out his young adult life completely directionless.
(I'm a bit distracted while writing, so I'm sure this meanders!)
I agree.
Expecting teenagers to decide on a career path would make more sense if their education up to that point was good and redpilling. For example, kids are intentionally not taught political philosophy, which can affect most career choices. The kids aren’t trained to understand the difference between voluntaryism and coercion, so they are susceptible to getting seduced into a coercive world view.
A girl might say, “I want to help poor people, so I want to be a social worker.” The most effective way to help the poor, and the most honorable in the eyes of God, would be to gain in-demand skills that other people voluntarily compensate her for (ie making honest money in a free market) and then voluntarily use her own earned money to help the poor. This is a difficult thing to pull off. It’s easier for the girl to get recognition as a helper of the poor by becoming a social worker, but then she really isn’t doing much to help. She’s just part of the bureaucratic class that coerces everyone else. And they redistribute “charity” in inefficient ways, subsidizing bad behavior instead of also providing good counsel like voluntary philanthropists would be able to do. She went into college debt to major in social work and the course work was a joke because pushing papers and attending meetings isn’t difficult and doesn’t add utility to society, so she has little useful skills. Then she becomes a bureaucrat and expects the accompanying social approval. She receives that approval from other people who don’t understand political philosophy, but for some reason the most honorable and impressive young men aren’t impressed with her. She tries to rationalize, “He just hates poor people.”
That makes a lot of sense. We can add to all of this that parents try to live through their kids too, pushing and prompting them to do something to make mom and dad happy, trying professions the parents never got to try, and the kids remain unfulfilled.
I was expected to go to college. I did. My husband said no one sat him down and told him everything that was out there after high school. He tried working and went into the military the following year. We had to figure a lot out together, as we got married the year after he joined the Army.
Yeah some people expect young people to learn life’s most important lessons by experience rather than through the reliable exposition of an already experienced person. It’s a wasteful process.
The redpilling that happens in places like here is invaluable.
Understand 100%.
Although at 6 years old I was pretty adamant I wanted to "be a science fiction movie writer."
Here we are, so I guess that panned out. 😅
Hahahahaha!!! My parents said I used to want to be a brain surgeon or trash collector. Big difference, eh!
I too was able to fulfill my dream of working in television. Like you I got bored and fell into computers/networks trouble shooting. Fortunately I was working in the public education area and I was able to learn on the job. I loved it! I was able to work my way up to the technology coordinator position for two different school districts before retiring.
Students would ask me where and what did I study in college to get my job. I told them the truth. I majored in mass communications not computer technology and I got to where I was by apprenticeship. I would recommend getting into an apprenticeship for your son. Where we live companies are begging for people to learn their trade. Plummers, electrician, HVAC, etc.
I use to say who are the guys driving new pickup trucks with boats and vacation homes? Your plummer.
He will no doubt be an apprentice if I can help it!!