phil
@phil
One of the major questions of our time: why do so many people choose to do jobs that they clearly don't enjoy? I'm not talking abt circumstances where they don't have a choice. I mean otherwise affluent people w no meaningful risk of losing food or shelter who show up everyday to do something they hate. What's up?
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@knny
First, objectively someone's gotta do the job other people don't want to do. Second, subjectively I think people think they don't have the time to make the choice. They're under the impression that by choosing to change their life, they have less time for things they're already doing. They don't see time as an investment, but something that's being immediately taken away from them if they choose to change.
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Arti Villa
@artivilla.eth
Why not find the thing you like and then find the job that fits the bill. Ultimately you will grow out of it…but for a while we all like it. The new parts, the fun parts. University is worse. you pay to learn. For what it’s worth I still scored a 4.8 but Idk who I did it for? def not myself.
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@knny
You should ask that at the people who don't know that's a possibility. Not everyone is raised in a way, or ever find out thereafter, that following your dreams is viable. I never went to college but I'm living my past self's dream rn. For example, if you watch interviews of people in the hood, their mentality is kill or be killed, they're not worried about what they want in life because their community ridicules them for it like crabs in a bucket. It's easy to look at people and think "they should know what I know, why don't they know" because they have a physically separate mind that's lived a completely different life. But, ultimately if someone chooses to be miserable you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
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Arti Villa
@artivilla.eth
nah, it’s the same in India in large swaths. the cultural pressures make it very difficult to think different. in essence, we don’t really have free will. the freewill in essence is the transparent veils of cultural, structural and monetary constraints or rewards pulling us in all directions. as social beings, we often want what others want around us. to think outside it is very very hard indeed. if you do, you’ve done some serious soul searching.
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