No joke, I genuinely considered switching to geology after I learnt there were only 3 people in that major and they spent most of their time on field trips collecting rocksโฆ
Honestly? Sounds like a pretty decent life path
I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.
Op could have made worse choices overall. ATVs are pretty cool. Soil is soil. Coulda been a cubicle monkey. At least op is getting some sun.
ATV is cool, yeah!
But sampling soil from who-knows-where is shit. Imagine two weeks of rain at 4 ยฐC and everyday you have to drive out. You are muddy, you are wet, you are freezing.
Iโd take a substantial pay cut for the opportunity.
โMe, cubicle code monkey wage slave.
with the right gear even freezing rain is tolerable, the big thing is that you need to prevent any water from getting between the boots and the rain/snow pants (or use the single piece pant boot things for wading).
Colleague asks to do Environmental activism
Donโt know what that means, but sure why not
mfw blowing up oil pipes
Anon teaches us that making seemingly random choices and going for it is better than making no choices at all
As someone a bit older than most on these sites, I can say with confidence, if you have any kind of solid plan for your life youโre going to get royally fucked over.
If you want any chance of happiness in your life, you have to ride a balance between working towards goals, but also learning to love and appreciate wherever life takes you, even if itโs in the opposite direction. Because the harder you try to fit into an image you make for yourself, the harder life pushes back.
I know all this sounds like a wood-etching in grandmaโs kitchen, but itโs 100% true and if you donโt get it nowโฆ you will.
I was trying to explain this to my son yesterday. Heโs in middle school but already has a career path picked out. I was like, โdude, I didnโt even know my current job existed until a decade after I graduated from college, you donโt have to have this all figured out yet. Plans change, life gets in the way. Just go with it.โ
I wonder why self-intro in college application asks so much about life plan, when it is not remotely how we should live.
Those kinds of things, along with work-interviews and small-talk at gatherings and why your boss talks to you at the urinal, because itโs far more about viewing how someone presents themselves and conforms to societal expectations.
Not necessarily in negative, overbearing way, often this is literally how we appraise people all day, all the time. This is how we keep from inviting psychotic strangers into our tribe who may cause damage. Just seeing if they can conduct themselves as we expect so we know they are likely to hold to their end of our social contracts.
(All of this is also why weโre such a racist and scared species, which is also what inspires college self-intros.)
Iโm in my mid-50s and pretty financially successful (enough that Iโm thinking about retiring soon). My entire career gameplan has always been โseemed like a good idea at the timeโ combined with โsomeone I know put in a good word for meโ. Iโve never got a job from a cold interview.
Moral of this story - network like your future career depends on it!
Literally, itโs kinda inspiring tbh. While choices were pretty much freefall like, when he commited, he commited. And when situation got clearer, readjusted course slightly to make it better for himself.
Not once would it pass through my mind Iโd ever find greentext inspirational.