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People succumbing to parental pressure become doctors.

A lot of folk go into teaching because there's high demand for workers & the academic path is relatively accessible.

You're probably mostly right about social workers, but it's a vague term & there's at least some categories of social worker that fill the same appeal as teaching.

Virtuosity is so hard to define, I'd say there's some virtue in almost every career direction but less in some than others. Certainly in my experience tech entrepreneurship has some of the lowest levels I've encountered.



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