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As somebody who is attempting to transition from my old industry into web development, I am biased, but I disagree. I was a good ranch hand before I was a good
by pdx 16y ago
As somebody who is attempting to transition from my old industry into web development, I am biased, but I disagree.
I was a good ranch hand before I was a good fine dining waiter. I then proceeded to become a good engineer, and now I am proceeding to try to be a good web developer. My life would have been a lot more boring, had a stayed a ranch hand, or a waiter, or an engineer.
In calculus, you learn about local maxima and local minima. Your life can have these as well. You sense that you're at a maxima, and if you proceed in any other direction, you will go down. Some people refuse to take any step that feels like a step down, even if the path can take them to a higher local maxima than they were at before.
I was a bad waiter before I was a good one. I was a bad engineer before I was a good one. I'm not a great web developer yet. If your ego can handle going from good to bad, I think you shouldn't stay on your little local maxima, trembling that you'll get knocked off it by events you can't control. Jump off of it of your own free will.
- maxklein 16y agoSo you're going back to the beginning every time. If you had stayed with your first profession, who is not to say you could now be owning a series of ranches around your area?
- pdx 16y agoIndeed. Who's to say I won't win the lottery tomorrow? We only have experience and statistics. If you're willing to throw those out and just say "who's to say this can't happen!", than you are not in control of your life, you're just blowing in the wind and hoping.
- hristov 16y agoI will say that. If you look at the economics of the situation it is very very unlikely for a ranch hand to ever be able to purchase a ranch.
- maxklein 16y agoBut it's likely that ranch owners were once ranch hands.