"... You know what I find to be a depressing thought. Consider the following life: Bob goes to college, works for a couple years at an unsatisfying job, goes to law school, goes to work for a law firm for 4 years to pay off his school debts. He's now 32, so he gets married and has a few kids, and finds that to support his family it probably makes most sense to stick around at his law firm where he's now making $250,000 or so per year, which he needs if he's going to foot 3 college tuition bills. Now he's 55, and while he's happy to have a nice house in a nice suburb and well on his way to having enough money to retire, he doesn't understand why he sees a wrinkled shell of his former self looking back at him in the mirror, wondering what happened to all of his idealism and creativity. I'm not crapping on anyone's career choice -- there are actually plenty of people out there for whom what I described above sounds like an absolutley dreamy existence, and practicing law fulfills every one of their intellectual and emotional needs. But this I promise you: the size of that group is dwarfed -- yes, absolutely dwarfed -- by the number of people who don't choose that path, but rather find themselves wandering aimlessly toward it because it's the path of least resistance. ..."

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