"Get a job doing something you love and you'll never work a day in your life." If I had a dollar for every time I heard something along those lines while in sc

"Get a job doing something you love and you'll never work a day in your life." If I had a dollar for every time I heard something along those lines while in schlol, I really wouldn't have to work a day in my life. Advice like that is repeated ad nauseam in acadamia and I loathe it. Schools (at least in the US) do a terrible job at setting realistic expectations for labor markets. Worse, I think they are guilty of misleading students' perceptions of the market in fear of them otherwise dropping out. When it comes to overcrowded labor markets, I put most of the blame on academia.