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You're a programmer. What career do you want your kid to pursue?
3 points by 13of40 on April 9, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


My eventual kids will have to find out themselves what is an acceptable quality of life/ability to nourish themselves ratio. Who am I to impose my will on them?


Yes! Follow your passion! Please! (I mean that with all my heart.) But...

You don't have to impose your will, for still to have an opinion about certain job choices. (And other life choices too.) "Acting" came up as an answer (above/below). As respectable a choice and a passion I find that to be, it feels to me that there's a lot of passionate "actors/actresses" that aren't making it the way they'd hoped, with all the social/mental and economic issues that come with it. (I think LA has a whole stereotype around this.)


Well said. It appears deliberate social engineering has become acceptable in recent years. It makes me feel uncomfortable.


Whatever pays their bills.


Acting.




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