When we're adolescents, we wonder and worry about what we're going to do to make our place in this world. It's a confusing time, because adults send mixed signals: "pursue your passion!" and "be practical - find something you're good at, even if you don't like it!" Ultimately we all have to figure it out for ourselves. Seemingly we have a generation (or two) adrift from *purpose* but with no shortage of idealism. Because the government has seen fit to underwrite purposeless idealism. Among the trillions in debt we have, I sometimes wonder what the value of this wasted human potential is.
I once read a rebuttal to to "pursue your passion" that replaced with "pursue your talent."
Similarly, I heard someone - I think it was Phyllis Diller - say "I never did anything that was hard for me." Sounds weird but it spoke to the same thing - cultivating that which comes naturally to you rather than saying "this is what I want to do."
I've had three distinct and disparate careers, and am dabbling in a fourth and a fifth. I succeeded in all three. If I had limited myself to "my passion," I'd have pigeonholed myself in the first and not realized the (greater) benefits of the other two.
I am puzzled by the number of college graduates who's goal is to work for a non-profit. Note that they want to be well compensated for their efforts at said "non-profit", in other words they want to profit from their labors. However, their employer should not be seeking a profit from providing the overall corporate service.
I recall in the early 200s talking to young folks, twentysomethings, who thought founding an NGO was the way ahead for their wealth and fulfillment. Curiously, most of them couldn't really name what type of NGO or what goal said NGO would achieve.
It's "change the world" idealism, and the product of an affluent life in many cases. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but it too often manifests as "I am good where most others are not." Thus the opposition to for-profit structures.
This article was the bee's knees, the snakes hip! My Dad always said that if you want to pay off the national debt and fix social security you can only do it by freezing current spending levels and greatly increasing GNP. He thought so because of the same human behavior dynamics you discussed here.
When we're adolescents, we wonder and worry about what we're going to do to make our place in this world. It's a confusing time, because adults send mixed signals: "pursue your passion!" and "be practical - find something you're good at, even if you don't like it!" Ultimately we all have to figure it out for ourselves. Seemingly we have a generation (or two) adrift from *purpose* but with no shortage of idealism. Because the government has seen fit to underwrite purposeless idealism. Among the trillions in debt we have, I sometimes wonder what the value of this wasted human potential is.
I once read a rebuttal to to "pursue your passion" that replaced with "pursue your talent."
Similarly, I heard someone - I think it was Phyllis Diller - say "I never did anything that was hard for me." Sounds weird but it spoke to the same thing - cultivating that which comes naturally to you rather than saying "this is what I want to do."
I've had three distinct and disparate careers, and am dabbling in a fourth and a fifth. I succeeded in all three. If I had limited myself to "my passion," I'd have pigeonholed myself in the first and not realized the (greater) benefits of the other two.
Diets don't work. Permanent changes to diet and lifestyle do. I'm not optimistic.
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I am puzzled by the number of college graduates who's goal is to work for a non-profit. Note that they want to be well compensated for their efforts at said "non-profit", in other words they want to profit from their labors. However, their employer should not be seeking a profit from providing the overall corporate service.
I recall in the early 200s talking to young folks, twentysomethings, who thought founding an NGO was the way ahead for their wealth and fulfillment. Curiously, most of them couldn't really name what type of NGO or what goal said NGO would achieve.
Cosplay, in many cases.
It's "change the world" idealism, and the product of an affluent life in many cases. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but it too often manifests as "I am good where most others are not." Thus the opposition to for-profit structures.
Abracadabra!
This article was the bee's knees, the snakes hip! My Dad always said that if you want to pay off the national debt and fix social security you can only do it by freezing current spending levels and greatly increasing GNP. He thought so because of the same human behavior dynamics you discussed here.
I believe Canada followed that path a few decades ago. Hold spending to 0-1% growth, and let time and compound interest do its thing.
Bloom County…YES!
I wonder how many of the “gimmie gimmie” folks had their parents or grandparents read them “The Ant and the Grasshopper”?🤔
Even if they had, the lesson I am certain was overshadowed by the socialist pap they learned in college.