Life and Other Passions
Some advice to the young, which they don’t want, but here it is.
Develop as many skills and learn as much as you can about a lot of diverse topics, while you can.
Because no matter what you do in your life, either your job will become obsolete, or you will.
The more skills and education and experience you have in all manner of things, the greater your chances of being employed and earning money all your life.
You’ll also have more joy.
Keep yourself open to life.
NO.
Don’t equate a degree with employment potential.
It often does not match.
What counts is what you learned while getting your degree. Not what the degree is.
In my day, experience counted for a lot more than education. It was your education.
Now I would say, a good combination of both experience and education will make your life better. Not just for the money.
I had a lot of growing up to do when I quit my very secure, very well paying government job to pursue a Biology degree. To say I suffered a shock at that transition is an understatement. But it was the shakeup I needed. I was an emotional mess when I started university at the advanced age of 25. That experience matured me quite a bit and boy, did I need that.
It didn’t solve all my problems, but it set me on a better path in many ways.
And I NEVER made the money, nor had the security I had in that government job ever again.
I always had a lot less.
But what I gained mentally can never be equated with money.