Can I do X, if I do Y, and will that mean forgoing Z?

Abaddon · May 24, 2008

Have you been in a situation where your choice cuts off certain options, but opens up new ones?

How did you evaluate what option to choose, and what new options did it open up to you?

I personally have chosen to return to college to learn Agriculture. This is obviously opening the path of farming into my life. It is forgoing the path the persuit of science which my Zoology degree had afforded me. An I still unsure if this was a wise choice.

Lillefix · May 24, 2008

Abaddon said:
Have you been in a situation where your choice cuts off certain options, but opens up new ones?

Every day. In freecell.

Abaddon · May 24, 2008

Lillefix said:
Every day. In freecell.

:yawn:

Thanks for the [insert"witty"spamremark]

Can we now [/insert"witty"spamremark] and get some intellegent replies?

Abaddon · Dec 25, 2009

-✩-;6853100 said:
Have you been in a situation where your choice cuts off certain options, but opens up new ones?

How did you evaluate what option to choose, and what new options did it open up to you?

I personally have chosen to return to college to learn Agriculture. This is obviously opening the path of farming into my life. It is forgoing the path the persuit of science which my Zoology degree had afforded me. An I still unsure if this was a wise choice.

Eugh. 1 year into farming and i am really unsure. I am NOT enjoying a lot of this job. But is it simply because I am back on the bottom rung again? I mean once you have the knowledge and experience.. management pays well.

Should i tough it out, inherit the family farm, or abandon ship and look back at science?

Cutlass · Dec 25, 2009

I'd probably pick science over farming. If those were the 2 realistic choices. For many people farming is a way of life. For others it's a living, and a hard one at that. For still others it's unending drudgery. You have to decide which category it falls in for you. But if it's not a way of life that you want, the sooner you get beck to an education the better of you'll be.

SS-18 ICBM · Dec 25, 2009

Physics, Chemistry, or Biology? The first option was shot down by it being my lowest mark in the last year of high-school (I really did want to get into physics, though). I thought chemistry was boring, and picked biology (Now that I see some aspects of what chemists study, I have some doubts about that decision). But biology does offer the chance of research that has a high chance of helping people and the study of life itself. And with the Human Genome Project still yet to yield its bounty, long-term job prospects aren't that bad.

Abaddon · Dec 25, 2009

I did a Zoology Degree myself...

_random_ · Dec 25, 2009

-✩-;6853122 said:
:yawn:

Thanks for the [insert"witty"spamremark]

Can we now [/insert"witty"spamremark] and get some intellegent replies?

Apparently not.

azzaman333 · Dec 26, 2009

Tough it out.

warpus · Dec 26, 2009

-✩-;6853100 said:
Have you been in a situation where your choice cuts off certain options, but opens up new ones?

How did you evaluate what option to choose, and what new options did it open up to you?

I personally have chosen to return to college to learn Agriculture. This is obviously opening the path of farming into my life. It is forgoing the path the persuit of science which my Zoology degree had afforded me. An I still unsure if this was a wise choice.

Make a list of pros and cons.

nonconformist · Dec 26, 2009

If you can't write in the correct syntax, I think that agriculture is a better choice than science

Abaddon · Dec 30, 2009

Zoology//Science

Pro's:

+Belief i'm doing the optimum with my life
+Real chance to change whats around me
+Regular hours/pay
+Interest in job

Con's:

-Low pay, initially, an prolonged
-stuck in a lab?
-Jumping through hoops to get the research grants
-lack of independance
-hard to get into

Farming//Agriculture

Pro's:

+Easy entry
+Decent wage
+Family farm to inherit
+Really is a beautiful farm/house etc
+life, sorted
+Get another year living close to Lizzie

Con's:

-Long tough hours
-At mercy of Market
-Doesn't interest me
-feel im dumbing down

Kerozine · Dec 30, 2009

Life's all about choices, but in this case couldn't you do both/more at the same time?

Zoology, agriculture, and tack on veterinary science/medicine for good measure. The whole shebang to do with a family farm. :dunno:

snakeseare · Dec 30, 2009

Opportunity cost. It's a basic concept in beginning economics courses. If I spend all my money on X, I can't buy Y. If I spend all my time doing Z, I can't do A. How is this a difficult idea? Uneducated much?

Kerozine · Dec 30, 2009

snakeseare said:
Opportunity cost. It's a basic concept in beginning economics courses. If I spend all my money on X, I can't buy Y. If I spend all my time doing Z, I can't do A. How is this a difficult idea? Uneducated much?

No need to be so condescending; making up for something?

snakeseare · Dec 30, 2009

Kerozine said:
No need to be so condescending; making up for something?

It's the intertubes. Snarky is the default setting!

J-man · Dec 30, 2009

Do you have a master in zoology?

Personally I wouldn't rather do anything that doesn't interests me or makes me feel dumbed down.
But it's of course your choice, Slozenger ehh Abaddon, eehh -star- ehh Abaddon.

Can I do X, if I do Y, and will that mean forgoing Z?

Abaddon

Deity

Lillefix

I'm serious. You can.

Abaddon

Deity

Abaddon

Deity

Cutlass

The Man Who Wasn't There.

SS-18 ICBM

Oscillator

Abaddon

Deity

_random_

Jewel Runner

azzaman333

meh

warpus

In pork I trust

nonconformist

Miserable

Abaddon

Deity

Kerozine

Deity

snakeseare

No arms nor legs

Kerozine

Deity

snakeseare

No arms nor legs

J-man

Deity

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