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As an individual being living in a universe filled with other individual beings, I think there are two possible purposes of life. The first, sensible option is to satisfy and preserve myself by consuming and taking as much as possible. The second, more absurd choice, is to preserve other selfs by giving and sacrificing as much as possible. The first response makes sense from an evolutionary perspective and is evident in animal instinct, the latter is called love.
Human experience reveals a great paradox: those who are devoted to preserving themselves tend to misery and self-destruction, and those who are devoted preserving others tend to happiness and fulfillment. Being as the first choice tends to destruction and the second tends to life, the most sensible purpose of life is the first option, to love.
To me, the best example of this love is Jesus Christ. Although I fail more often than I succeed, the only real fulfillment I am ever able to find is when I try to do things as He did.
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I held a door open for an old man yesterday. Felt better than the $100 I made selling some crap...
I'm considering radiology as a career. I like to help people, and x-rays + nuclear medicine has always intrigued me. Even though I won't actually start working until I'm 25, and I'd be up to my eyeballs in debt, it might be the way to go. I'd get to help people, as well as get paid >$150k. Seems like the best of both worlds.
Other than that I could do psychology. Help people + get your own cozy office. Sure there's paperwork but meh.
Idunno, EE is too boring for me; I like the 'fringe' stuff like radiation and big capacitors. Not only that, the wages have remained around $60-70k a year for 20 or so years, and the cost of living just keeps increasing. $3.50 for a pack of damn oreos!
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I think your website is awesome! I am building the plasma speaker mark 2 on there when the 12v zeners finally arrive.
Oh did I mention it is going to be put on display at my Christmas party, with a piece of paper with the address of the web page for it written on it ( ;
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things may look ruff now but in 10, 20 years from things will be different. Any career you pick will be work. If you like code or what ever you do you need to be able to enjoy it. For me it was easy because I have been interested in electricity since I was 2 and now I work in a place that does pulse power. unfortunately we just had 5 layoffs. if I go I don't know what I would do. I make that 60+k that you talk about as a glorified assembler in my opinion. I wanted to be a RnD tech but it wasn't in the cards that's why I do projects at home that I don't have a opportunity to do at work. I think that if you persevere and stay out of your comfort zone and work hard you will have some thing to build on. It took me years to know what I want to know and have a career at it. As for the 5 months you spent Just don't put all of your eggs in one basket. hear in California the jobs that pay good is writing code and they are the ones that are in demand. if you want to help people you could do things like prosthetics that are microcontroller based or robotics. I think that there is a lot of competition in trying to make money off the internet and you have to have the right idea at the right time to be Mark Zuckerberg. If you work with a firm like google you would have more financial security. there are a lots of grads that are in your shoes. there should be a way to organize them into a entrepreneurial organization that could make something that people would want and want to pay for.
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