[Serious Question] What is something that you think everyone should know

r/lifeprotips

 

Don't go about life thinking just because you know a quote, that you know something. Especially this quote.

 

who said that again?

 

That you should major in something you love. Nothing worse than waking up at 35 in a job you hate and wondering why you didn't do what you wanted to do in life. Oh, and history is a great major that teaches you how to write, research, think critically, and understand the world. Those skills are transferable to a number of jobs if you desire to go that route.

 

There are a ton of majors that teach you those exact things, at the same time also giving you a clear career path. Majoring in something you love and having a job you love is two different things.

 

Good advice unless you're talking to Hitler.

 

True, they are two different things, but not mutually exclusive. You could pick the best "happy job" major and still end up in the suck and you could major in something you love and luck into a great job.

Follow your muse and I think things have a way of working out.

 

OK, I'll contribute instead of riffing off of other posts:

There is a huge difference between leadership and management or supervision though our society repeatedly confuses those terms. Leadership cannot be appropriated, it must be earned continuously and is built on both knowing yourself (including your faults) and truly caring about others. Because leadership is personal, there is no formula to leadership and most of us cannot understand true leadership until we have failed a few times. That said, as soon as you start thinking of yourself as a leader, you are not a leader. Again, the title of leader is given by others and is not dependent on job title or the accoutrements of power.

 

How to swim
How to cook
How to build a fire

 

How to swim. I don't know how people live with the risk of falling into water and not knowing what the **** to do. Crazy.

 

As you move into your own independence (getting your own place, getting married, starting a family) do not allow yourself to fall into the trap of wanting to have the same types of things that your parents or other, older couples have. People that are in their 50s and 60s have been around for a while and most likely have less demand on their finances. So many people get into unrecoverable debt because they want their first house to be as nice as the one their parents are living in. Stay within your means!

 

I must have written my post poorly because that's not what I was getting at.

I know most of the people I went to high school with aren't in a career that has anything to do with their college majors, either because those majors don't really have jobs or because the jobs those majors lead to are not ones that people want to do.

I'll just use 3 real life examples:

One guy majored in economics because he was interested in the history of economic thought.

Another majored in philosophy because he was interested in deep questions and that kind of crap.

Another majored in history because he was interested in the class struggles throughout history.

None of those guys wanted to be in academia, or really any other job (if any) that could come of those majors even though they all were (and are) interested in those topics.

So, 4 years after graduation, what are they doing now? Economics guy works in an analyst role in oil and gas (which has nothing to do with anything he learned in his Eco classes); philosophy guy (the brightest of the bunch, easily) works the front desk of a hotel; history guy (who went to the best university) just got laid off from a crap retail job and is looking for another. Economics guy is doing fine now, but history guy and philosophy guy are downright depressed.

Now, wouldn't it have been better for these guys to say, "Wait. These majors won't give me the kind of life I want after school. Maybe I should look towards a major that can give me that kind of life and spend some of my free time brushing up on this topic that I find so interesting."

I'm not saying you should major in something you hate, but rather that you should be very mindful of the career path a certain major will get you. Had I known that you should go to school to be able to provide for yourself and others in your career, I would have majored in petroleum or mechanical engineering instead of economics. But since I thought I should major in the subject I liked the most, I chose economics.

Anyway, this is just my personal opinion and you can obviously disagree with it, but I just wanted to make sure I was clearer.

 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ
Everyone should hear it at least once!

 

I can't trust a Master Baiters word on that. Proof please.

 

Travel, travel, and travel more. Ignorant and uneducated about what's out there is no way to go through life.

 

this is my fathers advice

Learn how to check the oil in your car and once you learn how don't forget to do it.

 

Wear sunscreen.
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Always check for adam's apples in Thailand. True story

 

of being dependent on the government.