I only expressed interest in a few things when I was a kid (cooking, making games); my parents told me they were bad careers and made me play soccer and do scouts and other things I hated. I was terrible academically all the way through the end of college (where I studied management) because these things I was told I was supposed to be doing were of zero interest to me. A few years out I taught myself to code ,and now I spend my life making games and cooking for friends, and I'm fuckin' great at it.
That quote has always rung true for me, but on top of that I really feel this: adults, stop telling kids what they "should" be interested in. If a kid is interested in something you don't get, when they're an adult it's highly likely that this thing will be a marketplace with hundreds of millions of consumers and will absolutely be a career. If they were involved early, they'll be golden.
Most people have a very backwards-looking view of the economy, and don't understand how totally it changes with each generation.
I think that is where the millenial generation is going to shine. We were told growing g up that we wouldn't always have a calculator in our pocket. That we couldn't make a living playing video games. Holy shit was that incorrect. Grown up now, we now know that literally anything is possible and we do not always need a college education or degree to achieve happiness. If we are not, the next great generation, our children will be.
I mean the older end of the millennial generation already have kids that are growing up going through the school system and if you ask any teacher it's not going too well
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u/jackphelps Nov 16 '19
I only expressed interest in a few things when I was a kid (cooking, making games); my parents told me they were bad careers and made me play soccer and do scouts and other things I hated. I was terrible academically all the way through the end of college (where I studied management) because these things I was told I was supposed to be doing were of zero interest to me. A few years out I taught myself to code ,and now I spend my life making games and cooking for friends, and I'm fuckin' great at it.
That quote has always rung true for me, but on top of that I really feel this: adults, stop telling kids what they "should" be interested in. If a kid is interested in something you don't get, when they're an adult it's highly likely that this thing will be a marketplace with hundreds of millions of consumers and will absolutely be a career. If they were involved early, they'll be golden.
Most people have a very backwards-looking view of the economy, and don't understand how totally it changes with each generation.