To be fair, I chose my career in a very similar way.
When I was a kid, people kept bugging me what I will choose as my future career. I didn’t want to keep having the same stupid conversation all the time, so I decided that since I liked playing computer games, might as well become a programmer.
So I did.
Probably not the best way to choose, but certainly a way that happens.
Remember, kids aren’t adults. They work differently. And once you are on a track, sunk cost fallacy and people around you can make it quite hard getting off said track.
Ha. I actually enrolled in the wrong major when I went to college. Meant to do computer graphics, ended up in computer science (don’t ask, I was just an idiot). My academic advisor told me that I would have to wait a semester to change majors, that it didnt really hurt much because most of the first semester classes were humanities that count for both anyway, but to go ahead and give my intro programming classes a try in the meantime, and see what I thought. And I fell in love with it and decided to keep the major. So yea… I guess that was even more dumb than Harry’s situation.
To be fair, I chose my career in a very similar way.
When I was a kid, people kept bugging me what I will choose as my future career. I didn’t want to keep having the same stupid conversation all the time, so I decided that since I liked playing computer games, might as well become a programmer.
So I did.
Probably not the best way to choose, but certainly a way that happens.
Remember, kids aren’t adults. They work differently. And once you are on a track, sunk cost fallacy and people around you can make it quite hard getting off said track.
Ha. I actually enrolled in the wrong major when I went to college. Meant to do computer graphics, ended up in computer science (don’t ask, I was just an idiot). My academic advisor told me that I would have to wait a semester to change majors, that it didnt really hurt much because most of the first semester classes were humanities that count for both anyway, but to go ahead and give my intro programming classes a try in the meantime, and see what I thought. And I fell in love with it and decided to keep the major. So yea… I guess that was even more dumb than Harry’s situation.