never suggested anyone should chose a path they won't like or even choose a permanent path. path could easily be "i want to travel for two years, then live in 6 cities over the next 6 years, then find a laid back flexible job and make enough to get by on when i'm in my 30s."

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh

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That's a pretty extreme example.

Besides, I'm not sure how you're defining "making it" here. This person who decides to be a doctor may have a wife who makes bank and they don't need to work. Or they've worked in a different profession for 10 years and have saved enough money that it's feasible.

Being a doctor at age 42 (or however old they'd be - I'm assuming they already have a Bio degree in this instance) is still really sick. You've got like 30 years to just rack up sick bank.

Also, making sick bank isn't everyone's goal. Would you rather enter a job you love at age 42 or stay with a job you hate until you're 65? Just because in the former example you won't end up in the same spot had you started at age 18.

no, Omar has been for a while. Enervate came back as 0mar comin

any pro tips for visiting stl here for a few days...

Screw French words.

AUNDVOUZMENT

Yeah not many professions require like 30 years of school and another 50 years of internship and residency. See that's why I don't want to go to med school, not putting that many eggs in one basket

1. Date younger women
2. Don't date older women

pretty much concur with all of CDL's list. Only thing that was a little confusing was "waste time efficiently". Elaborate?

taking rivermans advice to heart, I just want to let you guys know that this is my favorite thread on 2+2 so thank you for thegreat discussion on every topic. First thread I check whenever I get on here for the day.

sounds like maybe rivahman had another rough go with his college bros.

I mean obviously being a life luckbox and being really happy with your first choice career or lifestyle is great and the best way to advance, but lol at sticking with anything you don't like for long just because your 22 year old self thought it was a good idea at the time.

That and they won't accept you.

I mean I doubt many of them make it in that most probably don't end up being a doctor, especially since I think there are tons of people who probably say "I wish I was a doctor" who never even look into it because they have no appropriate education much less med school. At 23 all that is still fixable, but at 35 its really tough to "go backwards" and make time for a degree, med school, residency, etc.

For some people knowing what they want to do may be "I want to be a stay at home mom/dad" in which case they can find a lot of things to fill the time before they have kids. Nothing wrong with that, but it still qualifies as knowing what you want to do with your life.

like I would consider my 2p2 posting time wasting in the sense that it doesnt really tie into anything to further my life. But I do it at home while watching basketball that I'd be watching at home no matter what, on my phone when waiting on someone to show up, between tasks at work, etc. If there are a bunch of meaningless tasks that I'm going to do I find it best to do them in times that would be hard to use for something that needs to get done.

Shame, Nath is a good dude.

Nath is the one guy that id type out a joke to post and end up deleting it because I thought he got way too much **** for being honest.

Gotta go with the opposite of this. I mean I feel like a huge group of my generation basically went to college with no idea what they wanted to do and graduated with no idea what they wanted to do. Such a waste financially, me included. Maybe I'm wrong, shrug

Doesn't help that our parents are the woat generation basically left us with a pile of **** to cleanup

I wouldn't advise that either. I would suggest knowing what you want though and then figuring out how to get there. If you want to have 5 kids and send them to private school while spending your summers travelling with clark then you're gonna need to start taking steps to get there pretty much right away. If you want to have a lot of free time and flexibility throughout your life and don't require a high standard of living then you can probably never enter any professional field and be very satisfied and happy for decades working random jobs and scraping by.

Agree that figuring something out before college is way under-prioritized. Ends up shifting a ton of that burden to post-college, when you also have the the burdens of financial independence & real life to juggle simultaneously.

+1 Baby-boomers are the worst. They think the world revolves around them so they don't have to figure out how to do anything right.

what did the baby boomers do to screw us over? unless youre talking political issues that people take offense to I cant really think of any.

environment, social issues, government, economy, etc

Like when people in their 40s-60s talk about "kids nowadays" they should prolly punch themselves in the face.

this is going to sound like a brag, but this conversation has made me thankful that I've got a career I love.

Agreed. I'm pro-nath.

agreed. It's not so much you need to know exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life, but when you're 18 you need to realize that a career will be starting in 4 years, and you better start thinking of some options. Basically, just straight up dicking off shouldn't be an option. Some people do OK with it but the majority do not.

lol baby boomer debt

Even in the lol example of deciding to pursue medicine at 40 or w/e there are options in that field outside of getting a MD. Physician assistant etc. Middle ground here between dicking off as a youngster and being stuck in a career post-college.