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Professional Aspirations, Goals, and Sports

You bought the ticket, you take the ride. I follow a guy on Facebook that has worked diligently, been kind of frugal and been creative.  My gut reaction that the wealth he now has relates to his long term career at the University of Miami and being able to buy a house.  Being in the music industry and a college professor that passed adjunct some time ago, I'm really not sure which was the side gig. (I'll get to this later>) I started college at Illinois State University, bitten by the political bug, my major was political science, thinking I'd probably be a history teacher somewhere.  I spent two years at Illinois State. I really liked studying economics and Read Robert Dahl's "A preface on Democratic Theory.   At the time I thought majoritarian populism was the ticket to political stability. As a freshman I don't think the prof that was teaching the class appreciated me stopping by his office to deliver my opinion on Dahl's book which was written in 195...