(May 4, 2023 at 5:01 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(May 4, 2023 at 4:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It is mind-numbingly boring because it’s about the origin of river names in Croatia, which is a mind-numbingly boring topic. If it was an interesting topic, Steven Spielberg would have made a film about it by now.
Boru
To me, Control Engineering is much more boring than the origin of river names.
But how many people will pay you for researching river names, compared to paying you for Control Engineering? If you're independently wealthy you can do anything that appeals to you, but otherwise you'll have to provide a product or service that someone else is willing to pay you for.
I have a diploma in TV and radio production, but never had an opportunity to work in that field. My first two jobs were as an accounting clerk. It wasn't exciting, but it paid my rent and bought my groceries. My last job involved typing for nearly seven hours a day, for over thirteen years (but fortunately it was interesting medical stuff, so I was rarely bored). Now I'm retired, with a pension and some money in the bank, and now I can do what I want. That would have been impossible when I was in my twenties, because no one would have paid me to write novels and study Latin and putter around in the garden.
At some point you'll have to seriously consider what you would be willing to do all day for the benefit of someone else.