Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
by underlipton on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:52PM
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I wouldn't even say medicine. Neither Baby Boomers nor the current American healthcare system have 30 years left in them; that means that, unless you're already in your 40s or 50s, you're going to see the bottom fall out of that sector mid-career.
This is a political failure. It has nothing to do with individual decision-making and everything to do with poorly-managed incentives for appropriate 21st-century investments.
Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
by raw_anon_1111 on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:46PM
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I agree. I’m 51. I’m hoping to end up like Ben Kenobi. Say f%%% this and die after having a good life and letting the younger generation take over.
Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
by jselysianeagle on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:20AM
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> unless you're already in your 40s or 50s, you're going to see the bottom fall out of that sector mid-career.
Can you elaborate? What's going to happen to the healthcare system?
Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
by underlipton on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @11:45AM
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It's going to become insolvent. People aren't going to be able to afford care.
Career paths and opportunities have been getting broken and changing so much in recent years that I find it hard to plan anything. I don't even know what kind of "goal" is sustainable, let alone what the path towards it is.
The only sensible career that seems to offer a steady trajectory is medicine. Apart from that, my most successful peers were the ones that followed immediate money and speed-ran into owning some kind of real estate, which is a game changer. Besides that, people try to do as many side hustles as possible and diversify their income to save as much as they can and brace for a possible recession. I find it hard to apply any of these 8 steps in such volatile reality.