A short YouTube clip (TJ Walker) warns against choosing a career solely for money. Walker argues that spending your 20s–40s focused entirely on high-earning work shapes your identity so strongly that switching to a more creative or different path later becomes very difficult.
Here's the problem with picking your career just for the money. A lot of people say, I'm going to get my mba, my law degree, my medical degree, be really successful, retire by the time I'm 40, and then I'm going to do all these wonderful creative things. The problem is, between age 20 and 40, if all of your time and energy and mental capacity is focused on making more money on Wall street or doing more engineering projects, that takes over your brain. It takes over every aspect of your identity. So by the time you're 40, very hard to switch to something completely different. Follow the TJ Walker habit.
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