Answer for question 4497.

[sabotabby]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Do what you love and follow your dreams because either way, you're going to be mostly unemployed, and it's cheaper and also less disappointing to be an unemployed artist than an unemployed engineer. There are no jobs for anyone. Welcome to the grimdark post-work future where the majority of you will not quite earn a living in an informal, unstable economy rooting through garbage dumps for scrap metal.

Unless you can luck into a trades apprenticeship, in which case, do that. They haven't quite found a way to replace plumbers yet.

You can guess by my cynicism that I chose what, at the time, was a practical major in university guaranteed to net me a good stable job, just as the dot com bubble burst and left my entire graduating class scrambling for scraps.

(I think this is why they didn't let me give the valedictorian speech in high school.)

Comments

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I actually think that if I could bring up my child to be someone so incredibly confident, non-depressed, engaged with and at one with the world that he actually WANTS to do anything and "loves" some activity or other (all completely, utterly, unimaginably alien to me so I will need to research these things!) it will be a miracle in itself and I will be over the moon. Someone that happy and lucky need not worry about poverty quite so much as I do as they would have the resources and skills to cope better.

[sabotabby]

Hah, tell me about it. If you find out, let me know.