Jules she/herI realised something recently, that just about all the advice my parents gave me about education, careers, housing and finances has been flat out wrong. All the advice they gave me about relationships, friendship, grieving and supporting someone grieving, has been really useful to me over the years. And I think that says something about what's important and unchanging about the human experience really, and how what current society tells us to focus on will become unrecognisable in a generation.
Deb Nam-Krane@afewbugs Best advice I've read--and not necessarily directed at me--isn't so much to "follow your bliss" as it is to be open-minded about what you can do with what you learn. That's the opposite of what everyone seems to be told, which is to start specializing, like, in high school.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines"A Man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
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