QOTD
By Since I’ve seen numerous people make this mistake just in the context of educational choices, for the new year I wanted to emphasize this from Paul’s other place:
You’re wondering if you have any real choice about sticking this out, given that you don’t seem to have any other promising career prospects at the moment, and after all going to law school is the kind of thing that at least allows you to tell people you’re going to law school. You do have a choice. The biggest mistakes in life are committed by people worrying about what other people will think. Here’s what other people are thinking about you: They aren’t. And even if they are, why do you care what they think about you? Have you ever thought they should make crucial life decisions on the basis of what impression those decisions might make on you?