Telling your kids they can be anything they want to be

[Kilgore Trout]

You'll get into medical school before you ever get into the industry or the NBA. Period. Following your passion is great, but kids need to realize the reality of the situation. I don't care if they don't major in sciences. I've been pursuing medicine for the last five years, so I understand fully how taxing and rigorous the steps are to becoming a doctor, but I'd much my child gain the skills necessary to succeed in that field or one similar rather than them banking on becoming the next Kanye West.

Whether or not they love science is ultimately irrelevant - you need an education and a plan B. Maybe that means you study physical therapy, or maybe that means you take up a trade, but you will have a fallback plan, and I refuse to cripple my kids by telling them anything different.

oh shyt you're still in school, that kind of explains your line of thinking.

 

[beanz]

oh coli logic

 

[Chris.B]

They lied to you to go to college and do something you love now you are broke and can barely make it.

You think I enjoyed my programming and engineering classes?

 

[MikelArteta]

I remember my bro saying he wanted to grow up and drive the city bus for a living.

My mom then threw away his toy Greyhound bus

Smart move

bus drivers make good money

my uncle is a bus driver and gets about 90k a year with overtime

 

[Killer Instinct]

oh shyt you're still in school, that kind of explains your line of thinking.

Well given I graduate next year and I will be matriculating into professional school, yeah, clearly that gives me perspective about how important having a secondary plan is. My parents told me the same things I'll tell mine, and I certainly wouldn't have gotten this far if they allowed me to focus solely on hoop dreams. Been there, done that. Not sure how anyone who legitimately gives a flip about their children would disagree with anything said.

 

[Poitier]

LOL @ people thinking STEM jobs are going to exist in 20-30 years and not replaced by robots that do those things 100000% more efficiently

 

[Chris.B]

LOL @ people thinking STEM jobs are going to exist in 20-30 years and not replaced by robots that do those things 100000% more efficiently

no job is safe bruh.

 

[Poitier]

no job is safe bruh.

Which is why you teach them trades, humanities, literacy and how to create service/product based businesses, not STEM jobs

 

[Chris.B]

Which is why you teach them trades, humanities, literacy and how to create service/product based businesses, not STEM jobs

I got bills to pay today.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Well given I graduate next year and I will be matriculating into professional school, yeah, clearly that gives me perspective about how important having a secondary plan is. My parents told me the same things I'll tell mine, and I certainly wouldn't have gotten this far if they allowed me to focus solely on hoop dreams. Been there, done that. Not sure how anyone who legitimately gives a flip about their children would disagree with anything said.

I went to school too, what I meant was that you have no experience of what life is after school so there's really no point going back and fourth.

 

[Poitier]

I got bills to pay today.

What does you have to do with your kids twenty-thirty years down the line?

 

[swimmingpools]

I dont even remember my parents saying that. My parents would say be a doctor, lawyer, CEO. I got that "be anything you want to be" line from teachers. As I got older my parents still pushed those careers, but focused more on instilling the fact that if you want to be successful you have to work for it; aint shyt handed to you.

All that other dream big/you can do whatever you want stuff never happened. It was more like "keep your dreams realistic" in my household.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

LOL @ people thinking STEM jobs are going to exist in 20-30 years and not replaced by robots that do those things 100000% more efficiently