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If you're doing this, your almost certainly choosing a suboptimal career path. I think most of the times you could optimize your job and location and come out a
by eloff 9y ago
If you're doing this, your almost certainly choosing a suboptimal career path. I think most of the times you could optimize your job and location and come out ahead economically.
That's not the only consideration, but it's tough to imagine the 90 minute commute winning on quality of life factors.
- sushisource 9y agoYeah, that's one of the pieces that's never made sense to me. Like the woman in the article. There really isn't a closer Red Lobster or similar restaurant you could work at?
- eloff 9y agoIt amazes me how people get comfortable in a rut and just stay there. I think we're averse to change by nature, but that attitude does us no favors.
- pp19dd 9y agoVery rational thinking for an individual, one I happen to share. However, in a large system, there have to be some practical limits to consider in order to apply this stratagem to a large number of people. Bottlenecks. Like both this traffic jam and number of available positions in the entry / exit funnel of an occupation. All I have is questions, but, could you imagine what % of workers can possibly achieve the optimal career path without noticeably impeding others? At what point does it become unreasonably competitive to align housing, work and family situations for everyone?
- eloff 9y agoYou don't have to worry about everyone unless you're the government. You definitely should work on optimizing your own career path. Two separate problems for different groups of people.
- pp19dd 9y agoMy point was trying to lead toward understanding the problem, not the optics of the problem.