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dgreensp on Aug 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you can't be anything you want to be

Yes, I also agree with the advice but not the conclusion.

I suspect the only people in their 30s who can honestly say they spent their entire 20s in full-time pursuit of a career in their passion and got nowhere are PhD graduates. This says more about PhDs and mistaken beliefs surrounding them than anything else.

I feel like I had more options for what to be (i.e. career) than I was aware of, it's just the "how" that was left out.

Crake on Aug 16, 2012 [–]

That and people who did art in undergrad. I know quite a few that still live with their parents and/or work for close to minimum wage.

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