I heard this from my peers in undergrad all the time and it befuddled me. I thought "so ... you have no curiosity about the world? about how stuff works?."
I'm not claiming that I had hifalutin ideals; I knew that money was important, but I had this (perhaps naive) idea that if I became an excellent practitioner in whatever I did the money would follow.
I just wasn't prepared to hear "I'm just here to get a good job" from most of my peers. Some, I would expect, but not most.
I'm not claiming that I had hifalutin ideals; I knew that money was important, but I had this (perhaps naive) idea that if I became an excellent practitioner in whatever I did the money would follow.
I just wasn't prepared to hear "I'm just here to get a good job" from most of my peers. Some, I would expect, but not most.