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debatem1 on Oct 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interest...

I was a day laborer before I went into tech or got an education. And (like most people, I suspect) I do care about living an interesting life-- I just didn't know that I was trading that away. Didn't figure it out for a long time, actually.

dominotw on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

> I do care about living an interesting life

Why can't you simply reverse your course of action though. Now that you have better understanding of both sides of it.

debatem1 on Oct 2, 2019 | [–]

I did. I left Google to take a job that is both more interesting and that leaves me more time to do interesting things.

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