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Originally Posted by blankall
A major issues with "follow your dream" is the flawed notion that it's even possible to end up with a job that you love every aspect of. What does follow your dreams even mean? How are you supposed to know if you will like a career, if you've never worked in it?
A much more realistic path would be to try to get experience in a variety of fields at an early age. Then choose a path that fulfills you in some way enough that that you can live with the negatives of that career path.
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I would also state that we need a massive overhaul of the post-secondary system. With a major shift towards training for actual jobs that the economy requries.
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This is sort of contradictory to what you said earlier. How do you train someone for a specific job if they don't know if that is the job they want or the one they love? There is a catch-22 in vocational training as you want to invest your money in places where people are going to use those training opportunities to go on and have a career in that vocation.
What you're also missing is that training and education for "jobs" is specific to moments in time. This is the way business behaves. It takes time to train someone to do a specific job, and many times you can be trained to do a job that is on the verge of being replaced or is requires further training. A good example is training someone to code methods. You can train them to do one language, but if that language goes out of vogue, you have a retraining effort on your hands. Better to give someone the foundations where they understand the larger development cycle and how methods play into architecture, a much larger and more complex subject, where they can pivot more quickly and require less re-training. This is why a degree (foundational and timeless) coupled with a certification (technical and time specific) is the best way to provide long term educational opportunities for the majority of people, especially those unsure of what they want to do with their lives. With the foundation you can pivot much easier and still be more relevant to employers.