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That is the most harmful advice you could ever give to someone. Who do a startup, if you can do a PhD, it's not that strenuous. Why do a PhD if you can just do

by wellboy 13y ago

That is the most harmful advice you could ever give to someone. Who do a startup, if you can do a PhD, it's not that strenuous. Why do a PhD if you can just do a Masters, it's not that strenuous. Why go to university, if you can just go to a community college, it's not that strenuous. Why finish high school, if you can just do an honest labor job, it's not that strenuous. See the false assumption here? 5 years from now, these people will regret that they didn't start 5 years ago. Hard work is builds you as a person, it makes life more interesting, it gives you purpose and after these 5 years, you can decide your own pace. You have the OPTION. Not going for higher education, limits your options FOREVER. You can't change it anymore, it's final. If you're not looking for meaning in life, go for the lesser option, if you are looking for meaning, go for the highest option you can think of and then even one more. The funny thing is, once you're getting closer to your highest option, you discover that there is still more to discover and that it is beautiful. For that reason, shoot for the stars, don't listen to nay sayers, make your life awesome you only have 1 and then it's over. I'm still cringing, hope I could get my point across.

pessimizer 13y ago
>Not going for higher education, limits your options FOREVER. You can't change it anymore, it's final. I didn't go to college until I was nearly 30. They still let you in.
- wellboy 13y ago
  And that's the reason, why it is so harmful to not go for higher education. If there were only more people thinking that way, you might have heard of it and pursued it. Instead you had to throw your whole life around again at 30, where you could have been much further already. But awesome that you took the step.
  - pessimizer 13y ago
    I'm saying that it wasn't such a big deal, and it didn't affect anything FOREVER. I did a lot of things before I went back to college, and I've done a lot of things after. >could have been much further already. I do well. If this is peak income for me, it's an excellent peak income. I'm not looking to go "further" unless random events happen to drag me there. To be clear: if I had it to do all over again, I would have waited just as long to go to college. Out of all of the things I would change, that's not one of them. edit: also, people who go to college do not have the monopoly on hard work. As a person who did an awful lot of manual labor in my life, what I do now doesn't even feel like proper work. I feel like I'm stealing a paycheck for doing puzzles all day.

by wellboy 13y ago

pessimizer 13y ago

>Not going for higher education, limits your options FOREVER. You can't change it anymore, it's final. I didn't go to college until I was nearly 30. They still let you in.

wellboy 13y ago
And that's the reason, why it is so harmful to not go for higher education. If there were only more people thinking that way, you might have heard of it and pursued it. Instead you had to throw your whole life around again at 30, where you could have been much further already. But awesome that you took the step.
- pessimizer 13y ago
  I'm saying that it wasn't such a big deal, and it didn't affect anything FOREVER. I did a lot of things before I went back to college, and I've done a lot of things after. >could have been much further already. I do well. If this is peak income for me, it's an excellent peak income. I'm not looking to go "further" unless random events happen to drag me there. To be clear: if I had it to do all over again, I would have waited just as long to go to college. Out of all of the things I would change, that's not one of them. edit: also, people who go to college do not have the monopoly on hard work. As a person who did an awful lot of manual labor in my life, what I do now doesn't even feel like proper work. I feel like I'm stealing a paycheck for doing puzzles all day.