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by smokel
847 days ago
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I'd be interested to know what "successful" means to you in this context? Being faced with the limited time we have on earth, I have had a hard time deciding whether it'd be better to spend time on building a career that makes a lot of money, or to enjoy the richness of life right from the start. (Or any of a zillion other ways to live a life, for that matter.) |
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The sneaky thing is, you are going to die, so the above statement should ALWAYS be how you're living your life.
If your work isn't important enough to you to be doing if you know you'll probably be dead in 1-3 years, you probably shouldn't be doing it now.
For me, my work is important to me and my values (I run a software co-op), and also enables me to live out my values in ways I'd like to do in the future (kicking off a global village construction kit project - for which I need money, lol).
Engineering certainly makes me a lot of money compared to when I was a teacher, but also it allows me to help build technology to liberate people, which is very important to me. In that way, I believe I'm successful, because I get to build things that make me better at building technology that liberates.
If I were to find out I would die in the next few years, I believe only thing I would change is shorten my long term plans by working my own contracts less, sell my stocks, and travel more, if I was healthy enough to. I believe I'd still run my co-op.