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Life is long
Posted by OKSaabs (# 558) (more from OKSaabs) on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:17:38
In Reply to: (really long) Way OT: Grad school mistake, need your, bender , Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:19:24
As a professor, I am regularly asked questions similar to yours. Here's my best professorial advice:

1. Life is long; plan to be happy. If money and material goods make you happy, then follow a career that will make you lots of money. Otherwise, follow a career that has a great potential to make you feel fulfilled. I've always found it easier to bring practicality into my happiness than to bring happiness into practicality.

2. Someday you will be old (like me) and you will look back on your life, and you will inevitably see some aspects where you will say "I wish I...." Live your life so as to minimize those future moments of regret.

That's my best advice; take it as seems appropriate.
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