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Have you ever had to give up on a dream career? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I wanted to be a programmer a few years ago but I just couldn't put my head around it. Considering AI is becoming a thing I made the right call there.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I wanted to be a mechanical engineer growing up, I was always playing with Lego and building little mechanisms. Then I had a physics teacher who got into the subject of physics vs engineering. He told the class about his brother who was an engineer for some electric motor company, and how his team would spend 18 months fiddling with the parameters of a motor, and they'd throw a party if they increased efficiency by 0.5%. I couldn't disagree with his assessment that that sounded boring and soul-draining.

It sounds like the perfect job for a certain kind of person, and I am not that kind of person.