Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Dr. What
Date : Sat Apr 12 2025 02:56 pm

Your note was so long, I thought it better to reply to the different parts in
different messages.

-=> Rob Mccart wrote to Dr. What <=-

 RM> Possibly I misspoke.. From my own experience trying out several
 RM> different occupations through my working life I never thought of
 RM> any of them as a career, just a paycheque as long as I didn't hate
 RM> working there too much. To my way of thinking a career is more that
 RM> you are trained to do just one thing and expect to do it for life
 RM> and may be in serious trouble if that occupation becomes obsolete.

Mike Rowe should have dispelled that idea by now.

For most of us, our careers evolve over time.

I knew I wanted to go into computers at 13 and worked toward that.  But
computers in what?  I've bopped from warehousing systems, to engine control
systems, to medical systems.

Yes, it's a paycheck. That's why we work.  And since we spend a good chunk of
our day there, it'd be nice if we enjoyed that work.  And, over time, we should
get better and better.  Which makes us more valuable.  Which gets us a better
job, and so on.

But sometimes what we originally trained for is not what we ended up with.  But
all through that, we should be using our current knowledge and experience to
springboard into that next step.

Heck, if things go the way I think, I may end up teaching before I retire.


.... Give a man an inch, and he thinks he's a ruler.
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