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kleinbl00 · 1662 days ago · link · · parent · post: Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" usually has several answers. Not a one of them is ever "whatever." Life experience tends to narrow your focus and pare your reach until "I wanna be an astronaut" becomes "I wanna work on tiny subassemblies of satellites" becomes "I'll settle for coding human resources macros for an aerospace subcontractor." We start kids off by telling them they can be whatever they want to be not because we know it's true but because there's no way to predict what limitations will stop them and you always hope for the best. But those limitations come on relentlessly.