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> they will now be able to do something - something that they absolutely hate A valuable life skill if you want to ever have a job or get paid.
by blitzar 2y ago
> they will now be able to do something - something that they absolutely hate
A valuable life skill if you want to ever have a job or get paid.
- Aeolun 2y agoThat’s such a depressing way to see things. I’m sure most people do something they don’t utterly despise, is only because they select for their local optimum.
- blitzar 2y ago> I’m sure most people If you live in the bubble where you experience this, congratulation you live a wonderfully privileged life, never interact with anyone or are totally oblivious to the experiences of all the people you interact with on a daily basis.
- tasuki 2y agoYou're of course right, it's a privilege. But also, many people choose to do something they hate so they earn more money. They could be just as privileged and choose not to, just so they can compete with the Joneses and consume more...
- danenania 2y agoSo your parenting advice is to teach your kids to do things they hate while suppressing their feelings so they can be like the average unhappy person?
- zdragnar 2y agoI hate doing laundry and cleaning dishes. I still do it, though. There are things in life that you won't enjoy but you need to do. Learning to do them anyway is in fact a life skill. I've seen people follow their dreams into careers they chose because they wanted them, despite those careers not being paid well. They're all at least as miserable as the average person, because what they enjoyed is now work, and they don't have money for anything they now enjoy. "Do whatever makes you happy" is a life plan for the financially independent. Most people simply don't have that luxury.
- bogdanoff_2 2y ago> I hate doing laundry and cleaning dishes. I still do it, though. Sure, I see your point. I guess what it comes down to is: what percentage of your life do you spend doing that? If you don't like doing laundry, then don't start a laundry service business.
- blitzar 2y agoParenting, having and raising children, including but not limited to the act of giving birth is the ultimate example. There are many "piano lessons" along that journey. Sometimes you have to eat a shit sandwich.
- danenania 2y agoSure, but you don’t have to accept that they’re the only thing on the menu.
- blitzar 2y agoSure, you can take off at 2am and leave a screaming 2 month old child in a room and never come back, because you have been trying for hours to stop it from crying and it is just too fucking hard - just like you can walk out of your piano lesson and never go back. Or you can reach for the sandwich.
- Tronno 2y agoIf piano lessons is what trained you not to abandon a crying baby, I'm not sure to say.
- harvey9 2y agoDon't know about 'most' but I think many do exactly that in order to pay the bills.
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- barry-cotter 2y agoThat sucks man. I hope things get better for you.
- blitzar 2y agoThe sweet is never as sweet without the sour.
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoSimilarly, it teaches the value of putting forth the minimum effort to appear to be doing the work. Putting forth more effort rewards one with more work.
- erxam 2y agoI agree wholeheartedly. Honestly, I wish I had been taught that lesson early, so as to internalize it profoundly. Even with a lot of discipline and self-control, going through each and every day without mind-altering substances at hand is pretty dang difficult.
- anon-3988 2y agoTeaching them piano is probably the worse thing you can do if you want them to get paid lol. You should be teaching them plumbing instead.
- blitzar 2y agoYou don't want to put them off plumbing for life!
- martindbp 2y agoThey already learn this by being in school, no need for more of such "learning opportunities" in their free time.