The point is that not everyone is successful right away & some people get off to a slow start, but that doesn't determine eventual professional achievement. 2nd, there are a lot of ways to have a successful professional career.
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I've greatly enjoyed academia, but I could have been very happy & fulfilled working in government or for a research or consulting firm. I've worked in those settings & there are really smart, dedicated people doing important work there that makes a difference in real time (unlike most of academia).
When I was finishing grad school & going on the job market what I really wanted was a job at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica. They had folks doing awesome research & people played volleyball on the beach at lunch (I think the latter may have been most of the source of my interest).
If I'd gotten a job offer from them I might still be there & be very happy about it. 3rd, the most important achievements any of us will have are our relationships with other people.
Family, friends, community, how we treat others - those relationships are more meaningful & have much longer lasting impacts than what we do professionally. Scott Cunningham & I cover these topics (& a lot more) in an interview we did for his excellent podcast https://lnkd.in/eqfZUgbA.
@causalinf.bsky.social has done a lot of fascinating interviews with a wide variety of economists - very cool - terrific stuff. Check out the interviews here https://causalinf.substack.com/podcast
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