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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by AcTiOnJaCsOn
pretty much concur with all of CDL's list. Only thing that was a little confusing was "waste time efficiently". Elaborate?
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.