• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    This is the mistake I made. I never found the thing I truly enjoy and so I ended up uneducated and working in a shitty factory… I should have just gone to school for CS (which i had absofucklutly no interest in) with my friend… Now that ship has sailed along with the WebDev stuff another friend is getting paid quite well from…

    I never found the thing I enjoy, but I sure as hell worked a lot of jobs I hate.

    For anyone reading this that’s still young enough, fuck your passion, chase money. Money buys stability which brings happiness fuck this money doesn’t buy happiness bullshit. Money buys your future.

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      13 days ago

      At my uni I recently met two people in their mid 40s to 50 (eyeballing) who started mechanical engineering this year. It’s never too late.

      And a friend who’s studying medicine said a group of people in their 50s started a year ago