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99% of us can't live like that. The other place you will meet struggling artists is sports. Train several times a week, neglect your social life, your studies,
by lordnacho 11mo ago
99% of us can't live like that.
The other place you will meet struggling artists is sports. Train several times a week, neglect your social life, your studies, just learn how to chase after a ball.
Only people who are crazy driven will actually do this. The ones who don't make it, they try to climb up from lower league clubs. They go on and on, carving out a career.
But most kids do not have a burning passion for anything. They are curious, they're smart, they want to explore the world. But they haven't found a calling. If they try to go through the eye of the needle, they find it's quite hard, because those paths are taken by guys with a mental lock on a certain career.
What to tell the guy? He's picked the subject that is the most useful for learning about the world. Go around and look at things. There's so much that a person who can code and can deal with statistics can apply himself do.
- fatty_patty89 11mo ago> There's so much that a person who can code and can deal with statistics can apply himself do. Can you give a few examples please?
- lordnacho 11mo agoFor instance, I have a friend with a phd in designing medical experiments. Someone from the biosciences field will come to him and ask for how exactly his experiment needs to be set up to make valid conclusions. One of the guys I met on HN got into marine telecoms. Something about the necessity of compressing data back before it became ubiquitous. I work in quant trading stuff, where we try to use stats to decide what to buy and sell.