Don't overlook this when choosing college or work

An often overlooked aspect of choosing whether to go to college, pursue other studies or enter the job market is the kind of people you'll be surrounding yourself with. That's because when you go to college or go to work you'll have to go there, and the mood and beliefs of the place will affect you.

I personally noticed great differences between Law Degree students, more focused on work, and Political Science ones, who tended to be more curious, creative, and didn't want to think about the job market. In Law classes conversations tended to be about holidays, in Political Science they could easily turn political and even philosophical. I also 

I won't go into specifics because beliefs can change enormously from time and place. I simply suggest you take this into account in the same way as you check the price of a student programme or the annual salary of a job. The best way is to talk with somebody who has already done what you are evaluating whether you will do, or the closest thing in time and space to it. 

In truth, this is just the logical conclusion of the idea that "you'll be the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with". In choosing college or work you're not simply choosing a salary, a syllabus or a series of tasks. You're choosing the pool from which you'll choose theses 5 people, either because you make friends with them, as is the case with college, or because you have to put in 40 hours a week, in the case of a full-time job.

Your mother or your wife might be more important to you, but you'll probably spend more time wih the people at work, during labor weeks, ot at college, during the formative period of your life. So I encourage you to take this into account when choosing what to do with your life.