Re:All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white w...
by kamaal on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:26PM
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>>only a relatively small number of key decisions separate our two economic outcomes.
Not just key, those are life altering decisions. I still remember my friends who chose civil/mechanical engineering over CS'ish fields(Electronic, IT, Computer science) because they wanted a better college, than a better course. I remember friends and cousins who chose to go into fields like literature/arts. I remember kids in my school who dropped out because their father's business was good enough. Most of them aren't doing good. But back then they justified their decision on all sorts of grounds, yet they didn't have to make them at all.
At each step it felt like I was getting lonelier along the way. It was tough, but it was worth it.
People make stupid decision and they make them for no rational reasons at all.
Here is another hint, your sister and you are probably even now making small decisions over time which will make you 10x worth more than her, another 15-20 years from now.
Small decision add up to big things. Especially the kind of decisions which can change the direction of your life.
Not just key, those are life altering decisions. I still remember my friends who chose civil/mechanical engineering over CS'ish fields(Electronic, IT, Computer science) because they wanted a better college, than a better course. I remember friends and cousins who chose to go into fields like literature/arts. I remember kids in my school who dropped out because their father's business was good enough. Most of them aren't doing good. But back then they justified their decision on all sorts of grounds, yet they didn't have to make them at all.
At each step it felt like I was getting lonelier along the way. It was tough, but it was worth it.
People make stupid decision and they make them for no rational reasons at all.
Here is another hint, your sister and you are probably even now making small decisions over time which will make you 10x worth more than her, another 15-20 years from now.
Small decision add up to big things. Especially the kind of decisions which can change the direction of your life.