After university, I was a volunteer teacher in Africa for 3 years. Then I went and taught English in Japan, and after that started working as a software developer.
If I had stayed in Canada and gone straight into a typical chemical engineering job, I would certainly be a lot better off in financial terms, but the whole reason I didn’t go into it was because I found it soul crushing.
One of my engineering classmates went into theater production, another did a master’s in English, and a third went to medical school. Clearly I wasn’t the only one having misgivings.
After university, I was a volunteer teacher in Africa for 3 years. Then I went and taught English in Japan, and after that started working as a software developer.
If I had stayed in Canada and gone straight into a typical chemical engineering job, I would certainly be a lot better off in financial terms, but the whole reason I didn’t go into it was because I found it soul crushing.
One of my engineering classmates went into theater production, another did a master’s in English, and a third went to medical school. Clearly I wasn’t the only one having misgivings.