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To me, the key question is not "what career do I want?" but "how do I want to spend my time, and in what environment?" I work in entertainment, in LA, and the
by _hxjy 6y ago
To me, the key question is not "what career do I want?" but "how do I want to spend my time, and in what environment?"
I work in entertainment, in LA, and the day-to-day reality is nothing like what I imagined when I started my career (and I don't like the city). If I'm being honest I spent too long falling victim to the Sunk Costs Fallacy.
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/
So I've started to think about this the other way around. I want to live somewhere 1 hour from a major city, 1 hour from a national park, with all 4 seasons, with a job market that has lots of interesting opportunities. My career will simply be secondary to that.
- psmithsfhn 6y agoA job market with a lot of interesting opportunities, but 1 hour outside of a major city, and your career will be secondary to...a job market with lots of interesting opportunities? These all seem weirdly incongruent/confusing/confused. And probably impossible. But happy to be wrong. Maybe i'm just triggered because I love LA and hate it less than most other cities. And the sunk cost fallacy is mostly false -- i've never actually seen a useful example of it that is academically rigorous -- even after looking at Dan Ariely's examples.
- _hxjy 6y agoIn my case the target city is Boulder CO. It's 1 hour outside a major city and roughly 1 hour from a national park (or something very similar). Boulder does not have jobs in my current career, so I'll have to pick another one to live there.