00:00hello my name is Quan I am currently a
00:02junior at Princeton studying computer
00:04science and I want to talk about
00:06something that's been on my mind a lot
00:08so if you're online or just aware of
00:10things going on you probably know that
00:12there's a lot of Chaos in the world
00:14right now there's genuinely just it
00:16seemed like there's too much to
00:17keep up with and the reason I'm making
00:19this isn't to talk about those issues I
00:21want to shed some light on what I think
00:23we can do to help so I want to first
00:25talk about Princeton and what's going on
00:27here so Princeton is very closely tied
00:30to these bigger companies we have Career
00:32Fairs here we have recruiters alumni and
00:36so it's kind of this web of connections
00:38that draw students towards certain types
00:40of jobs so the main industries being
00:42Tech and finance or like Investment
00:45Banking you see kids very early on
00:49sophomore year even freshman year and
00:52they're already getting pulled into
00:53these pipelines I think part of that is
00:55kind of not really knowing what you're
00:57getting yourself into there's a lot of
00:59pressure from parents peers and it's
01:02also like the structure that's already
01:03been set up within the university itself
01:05and you look around like these kids
01:07start burning out by their junior year
01:10when you go into these types of careers
01:12at the age of 21 22 you end up becoming
01:15your work and it really is soul sucking
01:17work let's be honest a lot of these
01:19companies aren't really doing anything
01:20to be helpful to society you're putting
01:23your energy in time with projects that
01:26have no purpose but to take advantage of
01:28people and you're spending a lot of your
01:29energy doing this especially for jobs
01:31like investment Bing it's not uncommon
01:34to see people working 18 hours a day
01:36from 7:00 a.m. to 1: a.m. the next
01:38morning and if this isn't discouraging
01:41you enough and you're like oh I still
01:43care about the money I still want to
01:44have a respectable job let me tell you
01:47something okay first of all you're
01:49better than that that's some low-level
01:51 that you should not be
01:52subscribing to I really think at a
01:55certain point it shouldn't be that
01:56shouldn't be what you think about um and
01:59you can either realize that now or you
02:00can wait until you're 40 years old
02:02before you finally accept that and
02:04second of all to discourage you even
02:06further AI is already taking over these
02:08jobs I'm seeing this a lot in the
02:09computer science department students are
02:12struggling so hard to get any type of
02:14internship you're applying to like a 100
02:16positions and maybe get two or three
02:17interviews and then still have no
02:19guarantee of actually making it into the
02:21internship position so you're seeing
02:24it's actually like a lot of these higher
02:25level jobs that are being replaced by AI
02:28first and the same is true for jobs in
02:31finance and banking I'm reading this
02:33from an article on Forbes um but 56% of
02:36banks claim they've already integrated
02:37AI into their business and I think
02:39that's going to be true even more as we
02:41go down into the year so I would just
02:44try to discourage I'm trying to
02:46discourage you as much as possible for
02:47your sake to just not go into these
02:49types of jobs um so what should we be
02:54doing instead I think it's really simple
02:56just work just go into any type of work
02:59that that is of service to humanity so
03:02this includes um anything like medicine
03:05agriculture environmental preservation
03:08um going to community building going to
03:09nonprofit work I also think um making
03:11your own startups is helpful um I think
03:14Community Building platforms are
03:16something that you should consider and
03:18also I would say discover your potential
03:20go to college go to higher education um
03:23but also be careful about which school
03:24you go to and make sure you do your
03:26research and it's somewhere that you
03:27want to be I'm warning you now it takes
03:31a special type of person to go to
03:32Princeton and say that you really like
03:34it here um but yeah so going into higher
03:38education will allow you to like find
03:41out what you actually want to do and
03:43what you're best at and what what type
03:45of skills you have and how you can bring
03:46that into um into the world and even now
03:50I think it's important that we start
03:51putting our energy into good things if
03:53you can take one hour out of your week
03:55to volunteer I promise you you'll feel
03:57so much better um but yeah and the last
04:01thing I want to touch on is that
04:02everyone has their own path finding that
04:04path and discovering yourself is just as
04:06important in this time I think the
04:08biggest issue that we're seeing today
04:09among people in our age and younger is
04:12just brain rot like genuinely just
04:14you're scrolling on your phone you're
04:16doing things that are just firing
04:17dopamine frying your brain basically and
04:20you're we're literally forgetting how to
04:22do things we're literally forgetting how
04:23to have conversations with people we're
04:25forgetting how to read I'm genuinely
04:27concerned for a lot of kids kids in like
04:30K through 12 like they are really
04:32struggling a lot it's like a really big
04:34concern among teachers right now they
04:35can't handle the behavioral issues that
04:38are going on in these kids so be really
04:41careful about how much time you spend on
04:43your phone what you spend your energy
04:45doing yeah and it it's kind of scary to
04:47see like how fast you can start going
04:50downhill once you stop using your brain
04:53basically so I would just just be
04:55careful about that but yeah it helps a
04:57lot to just journal and sit down and
05:00meditate which is what I've been trying
05:01to do more recently I really want to
05:04warn people about what they could be
05:05getting themselves into um and like I
05:08said everyone has their own path
05:10everyone I think there's a lot of really
05:12smart people I think a lot of people are
05:14a lot smarter than they realize um so
05:17take full advantage of your potential
05:19and what you can offer to this world and
05:21truly as long as you're just trying your
05:23best to be someone doing good um you
05:27will be protected and
05:30will you'll be fine but yeah that's the
05:35video I would really love to see what
05:37you guys have to say I think your
05:39insights are probably a lot more
05:41valuable than mine um I just kind of
05:43want to get the ball rolling with this
05:45conversation and yeah thank you for
