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My Life Plan: Blue (Community: (White Hat: Well, knowing that I want to…
My Life Plan: Blue
Community:
White Hat: Well, knowing that I want to live in a smart city, I looked up the smartest cities in the US and here is what came up. Maybe I'll consider living in one of these?
Red Hat: Well, I'm a pretty smart person, so I want to live in a place where I'm frequently put in situations where I can showcase these smarts or learn new things from the people around me. Anything better than being around complete hillbilly delinquents like I am right now.
Black Hat: Though I will be around some smarter people, it might not fix the whole robot problem because you surrond a robot with other robots it'll just become an even smarter robot, which could be a good thing, but more than likely, it'll be a bad thing as showcased in every sci fi movie ever
Blue Hat: Well, for me to end up moving to any of these cities(Iḿ looking into Boulder, Colo. right now) I will have to graduate college and then look for a job opportunity in the city of my choice or even go to college there and make that my new home.
Yellow Hat: The good thing about living around some smarter people is that I value intelligence alot and being in a smarter environment, I'll be able to have intelligent conversations with people other than my dad who is currently the only "smart" person in my life.
Green Hat: Well I could find a different way of getting there. Maybe I could find a connection through someone or even convince my mom to move there and I finish the rest of my teenage years there so I'm familiar with the place and have a better understanding so I can make a better decision of where exactly in Colorado I wanna live based on more educated opinions than just "it's the smartest city in the country"
Boulder, Colorado: Well, I did some research, and this is the smartest city in the United States. SO I did some research on Trulia.com and I discovered that there is a house in that city for $185,697, 2 bed 2 bath, and a rent of $844 that I feel would be good for me. I guess that means I have to find a job that makes me that type of money?
Careers
White Hat: Therapists earn around $80,000 a year. The top 10% earn around $110,000 while the bottom 10% earn around $50,000. According to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, individuals aspiring to work in this field have three paths to choose from to become qualified:
Compete a master’s degree in family and marriage therapy in two to three years of study,
Earn a doctoral degree in family and marriage therapy in three to five years, or
Undertake postgraduate clinical training for three to four years. Info found here
Red Hat: Well, personally I want to major in psychology and maybe work for a therapeutic business but the working part is entirely different from the major and minor part. I' m basing what i wanna do off what I learn not what I learn off what I wanna do because quite frankly, I still don' t know exactly what I want to do when I grow up
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Black Hat: The negatives is that it's kinda of a stretch. It has a huge range of salary between top and bottom 10%, plus the 90th percentile of workers in Colorado (where I wanna live) only earn around $60,000 which isn't the $100,000 I wanna live with
Blue Hat: Well, in order to get my classes for psychology I have to go to a school that I'm interested in that offers psychology classes such as: University of Texas - Austin, Washington University in St. Louis (both tied for the #14 spots in psychology degrees), and if we're aiming big, Stanford University, which is the #1 college in the States for psychology.
Yellow Hat: The positives of studying this are that It's something I ' m really passionate about, so it's not like i' ll give up half way. Secondly the salary lines up with how much I need to make to afford my house and to live comfortably so salary and motive are there which are the 2 most important aspects of working anyways.
Green Hat: If all else fails, in terms of careers, I could look to my dad. He has businesses a plenty including his own school, a car rental business, and even has his own brand of shirts so I could easily find work there or better yet end up taking over the business in his place.
Finances
Red Hat: I feel this has a lot of potential to work. It would take a lot of work the the salary I would make from this will be enough to support the 1-2 kids I want while still being able to live comfortably. I might consider switching places to live because I don't feel living in a smart city is enough for me to live in Colorado but that's something I'll talk about later.
White Hat: If I go into psychology, and end up in the 10% of therapists then I would and making a good $100,000 a year,. It should take a good 2 years for my bachelors, and then the 3-4 years for my degree in Marriage and Family counseling or any other human counseling job(they all have about the same learning time;except physical therapy which I don't wanna do anyways)
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Black Hat: There is always the possibility that this wont work. The most money in this career is made by the people who own business, And i'm not really a person who has been really comfortable with taking huge risks so I 'm not sure that I'll be able to handle the stress.
Green Hat: I could shorten the amount of time it takes for me to get my degree by going to a different school or not getting into marriage counseling and just doing psychology but that might limit the amount of money I make which I'd be willing to put in the time so I could eventually get the money
Yellow Hat: I like the money. It's not too much, but it's not too little either. I also like the work too, not just the money so I have both salary and motive down so that's always an upside.
Family
Red Hat: Personally, I don't want that many kids. 2 should be fine. In a perfect world I'd want an only child but research shows they don't turn out to well. Maybe about 5 years apart too.
Blue Hat: Well first, I have to meet the person I really wanna start a family with. I think I really might only start even considering getting married at around 30 minimum. I talk to them about what they want in a family and we go from there
Yellow Hat: It would help to always have somebody to look to, even in the days they might piss me off. Plus, just like you delcambre I am a smart person so I end up being really emotionally robotic since I expect people to be as smart as me when they're not. Being around kids would help lower those expectations.
Green Hat: I feel this could go with the way I raise them. I would try and raise them to be smart as I possibly can, but hopefully I can meet someone who is in touch with their emotional side so they aren't a complete robot like their dad.
Black Hat: Kids are expensive. So I will have to settle down before I can invest in having one. or two. or three.Depending on how good of a job I can get, directly affects how many kids I can have.
White Hat: Married people have been proven to be happier than single people even though it doesn't seem that way so as a person who frequently deals with depression and stuff, having a nice family might change that.