re: #313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Both of my brothers and I didn’t really find what we loved and excelled at until our late twenties. College wasn’t that useful to me— or rather, I wasn’t smart or mature enough back in college to properly take advantage of it. But after a few years of noodling around, I was able to start building a really good career for myself.

One of my brothers, now that I think of it, was a history major. He went back to school to learn animal wildlife management, and now he does cool stuff like crawling into the dens of mother bears to traquilize them and gather data. He’s publishing like mad and happy as a clam.

My other brother did philosophy, I think, and then in his late twenties went back to school, got a teaching certificate, and became an awesome third-and-fourth grade teacher.

We all feel kind of dumb for wasting so much time, but I think for some people that’s how it’s got to be. We were pretty naive, and needed to knock around in the world a bit before we could become serious people.

I hope your son finds something serious he can get excited about. He’s lucky to have a dad that cares, like you.