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    3 days ago

    My father’s career advise to my brother and me was “Make lots of money so I can come live with you when I get old.”

    My brother didn’t like that advise so he did a bunch of research and asked a bunch of people about their careers. He got a masters in an Engineering field but hated working in that field. So he got another masters. He doesn’t use it for his career.

    I studied Chemistry and left grad school to do software development with no degree in it (it was the 80s). I never used my degree either.

    Confronting my dad about his bad career advise would have just gotten his Standard Response to Criticism™–But I’m lovable.

    And no he never lived with either of us. But then he never go old.