OT: New grad/profession/school pay….

[davelj]

[quote=Arraya]
sigh

Ok, I’m a cog in the machine, so I guess that disqualifies me from criticizing it. Since I’m not living in a organic hemp tent, selling hackey sacks for a living, right .
[/quote]

It most certainly does not disqualify you from criticizing it, although it does place you firmly in the camp of other hypocrites who complain about things in which they themselves play an affirming role (because it’s too difficult and inconvenient to actually “do” otherwise). If my father were alive, he’d simply say, “Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.”

So, you’re a cog in the very machine of which you are so critical, too lazy to walk the talk, so to speak. The good news is twofold. First, at least you admit it. Second, you have a LOT of company.

Personally, believing in something with rather strong convictions and living a life contrary to those beliefs would drive me completely nuts. But everyone forges their own path.

[davelj]

[quote=walterwhite]It’s my position we are all cogs[/quote]

In my view, it’s a spectrum. We all operate along the spectrum of Cogdom. If you’re working 90 hours a week as a low-level analyst at Goldman Sachs, you are off to one side of Cogdom. If you’re selling t-shirts and pot at the beach, you’re off to the other side of Cogdom. But, day to day, even the latter example can’t escape certain elements of Cogdom. It’s ubiquitous. Choosing one’s career is all about figuring out where the optimal point is on the Cogdom spectrum – that trade-off of compensation, freedom, work content and personal ethics – and everyone’s got a different view on where that optimal point is.

[davelj]

[quote=walterwhite]It’s my position we are all cogs[/quote]

In my view, it’s a spectrum. We all operate along the spectrum of Cogdom. If you’re working 90 hours a week as a low-level analyst at Goldman Sachs, you are off to one side of Cogdom. If you’re selling t-shirts and pot at the beach, you’re off to the other side of Cogdom. But, day to day, even the latter example can’t escape certain elements of Cogdom. It’s ubiquitous. Choosing one’s career is all about figuring out where the optimal point is on the Cogdom spectrum – that trade-off of compensation, freedom, work content and personal ethics – and everyone’s got a different view on where that optimal point is.

[davelj]

[quote=walterwhite]It’s my position we are all cogs[/quote]

In my view, it’s a spectrum. We all operate along the spectrum of Cogdom. If you’re working 90 hours a week as a low-level analyst at Goldman Sachs, you are off to one side of Cogdom. If you’re selling t-shirts and pot at the beach, you’re off to the other side of Cogdom. But, day to day, even the latter example can’t escape certain elements of Cogdom. It’s ubiquitous. Choosing one’s career is all about figuring out where the optimal point is on the Cogdom spectrum – that trade-off of compensation, freedom, work content and personal ethics – and everyone’s got a different view on where that optimal point is.

[davelj]

[quote=walterwhite]It’s my position we are all cogs[/quote]

In my view, it’s a spectrum. We all operate along the spectrum of Cogdom. If you’re working 90 hours a week as a low-level analyst at Goldman Sachs, you are off to one side of Cogdom. If you’re selling t-shirts and pot at the beach, you’re off to the other side of Cogdom. But, day to day, even the latter example can’t escape certain elements of Cogdom. It’s ubiquitous. Choosing one’s career is all about figuring out where the optimal point is on the Cogdom spectrum – that trade-off of compensation, freedom, work content and personal ethics – and everyone’s got a different view on where that optimal point is.

[davelj]

[quote=walterwhite]It’s my position we are all cogs[/quote]

In my view, it’s a spectrum. We all operate along the spectrum of Cogdom. If you’re working 90 hours a week as a low-level analyst at Goldman Sachs, you are off to one side of Cogdom. If you’re selling t-shirts and pot at the beach, you’re off to the other side of Cogdom. But, day to day, even the latter example can’t escape certain elements of Cogdom. It’s ubiquitous. Choosing one’s career is all about figuring out where the optimal point is on the Cogdom spectrum – that trade-off of compensation, freedom, work content and personal ethics – and everyone’s got a different view on where that optimal point is.

[scaredyclassic]

i told my kids im a cog ina big machine, but im sort of a free spinning cog that just whirrs around without actually connecting to anything, kind of an extra pointless cog. and that’s how they refer to me, a free-spinning cog. you don’t want to be the kind of cog that gets ground down by the neighboring cog.

[scaredyclassic]

i told my kids im a cog ina big machine, but im sort of a free spinning cog that just whirrs around without actually connecting to anything, kind of an extra pointless cog. and that’s how they refer to me, a free-spinning cog. you don’t want to be the kind of cog that gets ground down by the neighboring cog.

[scaredyclassic]

i told my kids im a cog ina big machine, but im sort of a free spinning cog that just whirrs around without actually connecting to anything, kind of an extra pointless cog. and that’s how they refer to me, a free-spinning cog. you don’t want to be the kind of cog that gets ground down by the neighboring cog.

[scaredyclassic]

i told my kids im a cog ina big machine, but im sort of a free spinning cog that just whirrs around without actually connecting to anything, kind of an extra pointless cog. and that’s how they refer to me, a free-spinning cog. you don’t want to be the kind of cog that gets ground down by the neighboring cog.

[scaredyclassic]

i told my kids im a cog ina big machine, but im sort of a free spinning cog that just whirrs around without actually connecting to anything, kind of an extra pointless cog. and that’s how they refer to me, a free-spinning cog. you don’t want to be the kind of cog that gets ground down by the neighboring cog.

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