I looked up for a management guru - himself a 40-year veteran in business training and a management consultant - and he gave me the not-quite-helpful-but-really-thought-provoking advice:
"Quit accounting if you can, and do marketing".
I myself am a student doing accounting and finance in my 3rd year.
He's absolutely right, though.
He really makes me think, should I do my interests, depending on a combination of the generosity of the rich, sheer brilliance of doing something of exceptional competence or governmental welfare (which, unfortunately in my country, is utopian thinking, but is the reality in other countries such as Austria or Japan), or should I follow money and delay following my dreams and visions? Postponing interests, as what my parents and a few older Aspie friends advised me, just don't seem to work. Life is short, in my favorite quote by Kurt Cobain, I feel better not being appreciated, or maybe 'hated for being myself' and my interests than being 'loved for what I am not'.
So I seek for 'help'. So what, humiliation? I don't care, so long as I add value to my world, which supports and feeds my family... That's just me, though, eventually, my family will need some assurance that they're well taken care of, and so, I'll do my best to reconcile my ideas of a fun, happy, supportive world for all, which may not be immediately recognized now, and my family's needs.
I know Aspies are encouraged to do STEM. I cannot deny the benefits of STEM. As someone who did at least 1 Economics course in College, I even think the Aspies with the technical expertise should do STEM. It is not just good for the economy to expand its capacities, it's even better for the Aspies with the technical expertise and the 'luck' to have cultivated interests, because of the lower costs of opportunity cost. In plain English, many Aspies have little to give up if they do STEM, for people will always need science and engineering to do things. The next best alternative would be - hmm - unemployment, doing nothing but to think about equations, I guess? Indeed, Aspies do get training, and employment, in STEM, as I noted in fellow Aspies living in Singapore. Aspies have great successes doing IT and Engineering, and even graduating from such fields.
However, far too many Aspies I know can't really do STEM. They aren't interested in science, they have other interests they really really love that others are willing to pay top dollar or recognitions (such as PhD degrees?) So as long as they give up very little by not doing STEM, in their next best alternative, good that they don't do STEM. And also, I hear a few Aspies who did STEM and failed - even 2 Aspies I know quite well in my city-state.
"Quit accounting if you can, and do marketing".
I myself am a student doing accounting and finance in my 3rd year.
He's absolutely right, though.
He really makes me think, should I do my interests, depending on a combination of the generosity of the rich, sheer brilliance of doing something of exceptional competence or governmental welfare (which, unfortunately in my country, is utopian thinking, but is the reality in other countries such as Austria or Japan), or should I follow money and delay following my dreams and visions? Postponing interests, as what my parents and a few older Aspie friends advised me, just don't seem to work. Life is short, in my favorite quote by Kurt Cobain, I feel better not being appreciated, or maybe 'hated for being myself' and my interests than being 'loved for what I am not'.
So I seek for 'help'. So what, humiliation? I don't care, so long as I add value to my world, which supports and feeds my family... That's just me, though, eventually, my family will need some assurance that they're well taken care of, and so, I'll do my best to reconcile my ideas of a fun, happy, supportive world for all, which may not be immediately recognized now, and my family's needs.
I know Aspies are encouraged to do STEM. I cannot deny the benefits of STEM. As someone who did at least 1 Economics course in College, I even think the Aspies with the technical expertise should do STEM. It is not just good for the economy to expand its capacities, it's even better for the Aspies with the technical expertise and the 'luck' to have cultivated interests, because of the lower costs of opportunity cost. In plain English, many Aspies have little to give up if they do STEM, for people will always need science and engineering to do things. The next best alternative would be - hmm - unemployment, doing nothing but to think about equations, I guess? Indeed, Aspies do get training, and employment, in STEM, as I noted in fellow Aspies living in Singapore. Aspies have great successes doing IT and Engineering, and even graduating from such fields.
However, far too many Aspies I know can't really do STEM. They aren't interested in science, they have other interests they really really love that others are willing to pay top dollar or recognitions (such as PhD degrees?) So as long as they give up very little by not doing STEM, in their next best alternative, good that they don't do STEM. And also, I hear a few Aspies who did STEM and failed - even 2 Aspies I know quite well in my city-state.
