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does anyone else’s family think their ambitions/goals are “stupid”? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by drbollocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i’m constantly told to give up on my goals. they’re not even unrealistic, i don’t want to be a big, giant unicorn who saves the world or something.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

Follow your passion, but also be practical. For example art was my passion, but I realized at Uni that I wasn't going to make a living at it so went into trades/engineering. I also enjoyed the C64 programming.

But now I get to use my keen art eye for building some neat 3d CAD renderings and sharp looking PowerPoint's for corporate presentations. And I'm not a real coder, but the basic functions I can build into our CAD software to automate design work and configurations, based on designer value entries.