The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity – Series Review

In case you missed it on Netflix, Fragrant Flower is a lovely rom-com from a female-led production team about two kids falling in love across very gendered class barriers

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it's honestly kinda weird how Kaoruko was afraid of her friends being against her dream to be an OB-GYN. like, doctors are one of the most respected occupations in asia as a whole (and at least locally, it has extra prestige for earning a big salary).

i knew someone in high school who wanted to go into med school too, and all i thought was, "wow, they're hardcore, good luck to them".

the only time i would actually think otherwise is if the person in question was a scumbag (which was my narcissistic roommate in uni), because that kind of person being a doctor is going to cause so much harm, but it's also not something i would voice to their face since we were on bad terms by that point.

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With myself also at a crossroad with what I want to do for my career, the talk of careers in this manga has been pretty intriguing.

And in this chapter, Tsuka-sensei drops a bit of wisdom. You don't have to do something you like or are crazy passionate about. You just need to do something that you don't hate, that you don't find difficult to do. Something that isn't a chore or a grind to you.

And for me, the coding part of tech fits into that bucket. I wouldn't mind spending hours debugging some code. But the problem is that the hiring process is hellish (and straight up damaging to my mental health) and the work that companies want me to do nowadays is not the kind of stuff I want to do.

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