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"When I talk to friends who also have 9 to 5 type dead-end jobs they say to me that I made the right choice fighting it out at UNM. I realized that am not any happier than they are. It turns out I hate Academea. If you only knew about the weird bullshit that goes in the chemical engineering department, its unbelieveable. I like working on the cancer research project at my job, because its where I want to be!, but I have to wade through the shit infested undergrad maze to get there. More and more I think that it will take much longer than I think it will.

Anyway, I don't want to rant, but the point I am trying to make is that we have the same problem...we all want to have "arrived." Working at a job that we believe in or are happy doing. The reality is that we are idealistic and the world that we live in deems that people with the right papers are "more qualified/educated are allowed to do the work they want.


If you think that I am painting the world in too dark please let me know, I'd want to be swayed into believing otherwise. In general, I think the world works well and its not "corrupt" or whatever, but the other 40 or 50 percent of the time society is abrasive and you think you have been somehow conned or feel cheated.

My greatest fear when I was just a very little kid was to end up with a job I hated, and I heard a great question that I thought solved this delema. Its the ol' what would you be doing if you were a billionare? The problem with that question is that is disreguards money! haha, but seriously I think the REAL version of that question is more like: What do you like doing that you do on a regular basis that you can make a living on?"


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Well, firstly, it's good to know I'm not alone.  I suppose I always knew that but it's good to get some affirmation. 

As far as the whole college thing goes; I agree that it influences us to think that once you have the right papers, it's going to make things better and you're going to be automatically more qualified to whatever you want to do.  I think that has some truth.  I'm sure you learn a lot in college and it definitely gives many people the drive to succeed, but it's not some magical device which will place you where you will succeed in your life dream/goal. 

I definitely don't think you're "painting the world in dark".  I think we share many of the main feelings about society and much of the government/systems that we go through in life.  Most of the time you feel as though it's a struggle to get where you want to be and do what you want to do, no matter how good you are at it.

I think that the billionaire question is rooted in a positive thought process.  It encourages you to put priority on what you enjoy doing instead of thinking about things that will make you money.  I think that the rut that many people (myself included) have gotten themselves in is this idea that you work hard and make money until you have enough to stop and do what you actually want to do, instead of just making money doing what you're passionate about in the first place. 


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