When You Cannot Take the Road Less Traveled
I once had a question for my friend and it was simple: “If you offer incentives to go into certain careers, is it not a form of mass manipulation?” They answered with a common argument that you have to offer the disenfranchised the opportunity to gain these high paying jobs that have been isolated for some time. Yet, isn’t the reason we live and work to enjoy ourselves? Is it not dangerous to offer cheap education, but in doing so, force someone to choose a career path? For me, I see all the STEM programs as a structured issue that’s goal is to produce workers for companies. This is fine, and a lot people love being creative within the STEM field, but isn’t it dangerous to over produce and create a surplus of STEM qualified individuals?
For me, I work in an engineer concentric company. However, I carry a philosophy, sociology degree, and a masters in business administration. I am beyond happy that I got my liberal arts degrees and I use them regularly for my other career aspiration: novelist. Yet, I feel somewhat sad for those who were coerced into getting a STEM degree because they look longingly at my fiction writing and wish they had some skill that wasn’t only effective for a company. I am not making this up, I was directly told by a coworker with a masters in engineer that they wish they had some skill that could let them venture into the world on their own and use their own ability to generate an income – they don’t realize I don’t generate an income from my writing (yet).
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Read MoreSmall Questions – Milk
I know I discussed the differences between cold water and hot water. And yes, I realize there was a fallacy in that argument as water that is boiled would have mineral deposits removed thus changing the basic characteristics of the water. However, today I am focusing on milk. At a lunch with coworkers, I was discussing cultural differences and my Chinese coworker brought up the fact that they drink warm milk in their culture. But the kids that grow up in America drink their milk cold, and if the milk gets warm, these same kids find it off putting. I, having grown up in the United States of America, only have participated in cold milk. However, my mother never let me throw out a glass of milk so I’ve often imbibed in warm milk as a beverage. These two things taste different, warm milk and cold milk. So there are multiple times in which milk tastes different, think of a latte where it is steamed (but this could be changing the structure of the milk leading to its changes), when it is left out for only thirty minutes, or even when is ice cold.
So why the different flavors? Not all drinks do this, but water and milk do, what makes them so special? Perhaps, I am missing valuable data and need to start drinking more beverages at different temperatures.
As always, Theodore asking the tough questions.
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