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EDUCATION
You, Too, Could Have Been An Experimental Archeologist
If you only knew what that was.
Lately, I’m been thinking a lot about how the hell I became a legal secretary.
The course of my entire life has basically been an accident, which goes against everything I was ever taught in my 19+ years of formal education.
I had trouble deciding on a college major because I was curious about so many things. Everything was interesting at that age. But in the late ‘80s, I didn’t have access to the entire world of possibilities that kids have today via the internet.
How do you decide what to be when you don’t even know what choices exist?
At one point, I considered semantics.
I thought I knew what semantics was, but I did not. Honestly, I still don’t. I knew it had something to do with language, and I like language.
I mentioned to someone in casual conversation that I might take a class in semantics and they shot me down like a Chinese spy balloon.
“Semantics isn’t what you think it is.”
I took their word for it and immediately majored in political science. I liked politics back then.
