Starting life.

You are born in Eastern Europe, as an example, in Romania. Your parents have 2 realistic choices for the future of their family.

Choice 1 : Your parents decide to go live in a wealthy country

Choice 2 : Your parents decide to stay

Growing and living in Eastern Europe all of your life.

Not the optimal choice, but not everybody has the strength to start anew in a foreign land. You will become either a peasant farmer or a travelling worker in the European Union. However, your children will inevitably leave abroad to learn from greater intellectual institutions and bring wealth just as your forefathers did. However, these accursed lands will take everything from you and your descendants as always and will be controlled by either the Russians, the Truks or the Westerns.

Choice 1 : Go back, there is nothing left for you, only your children

Yippee! You are living the dream in a Western country.

You are going to school and doing great, but you are wondering what to do for the future. Your parents tell you to have a useful job, but you hear your friend's parents telling them to do what they wish. You parents know that dreaming is hopeless and must be useful to survive if peace times were to end, and you understand them because they grew up in Communist Eastern Europe. You choose:

Choice 1 : You chose a hands on job

Choice 2 : You chose a career in something that intrest you and is sought after

Choice 3 : You squander your time

Great life.

Hands on jobs like plumber are in high demand because everybody wants to be an intellectual and never to manual labour. You make your own company, without being in dept or 30 years old and with no real experience, and because wealthy and retire satisfied.

Choice 1 : You completed life, it's time for another poor soul to be born there

You study in mathematics to become a Mathematician.

You chose to study to become a Mathematician. As example, you chose a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics at the University of Montreal. You're good at it, and you look brightly at your future.

Choice 1 : You yearn for the Motherland

Choice 2 : The career paths

What did you expect?

You end up even more miserable than living in your former home country because everything is more expensive, and you don't have family except probably your parents. You live to grow old and bitter because you got stuck in a dead end job and too in debt to do anything other than work.

Choice 1 : Perhaps your children will choose wisely

Welcome back to Eastern Europe.

As was your destiny, you came back to Eastern Europe in hopes to make amends with the past and give hope to the people of your country of birth, which are numb because there's never been hope there, in hopes of proving your parents wrong. Because of your knowledge, you are living in the upper echelons of society. But you are still young, you aspire to do more for your people.

Choice 1 : Become a politician

Choice 2 : Become an entrepreneur

Fork in the road.

You got your diploma, and you're wondering what to do next. Multiple choices are ahead of you.

Choice 1 : Become a Data Analyst

Choice 2 : Go in Mathematics

Choice 3 : Become one with the money

No time for corruption.

Well, you did it, you're the head of (insert political party name here). Now it is time to either become corrupt and becoming rich like everyone else before you or struggle to inspire your people to become a powerhouse. Either way, if you're not the reincarnation of a national hero, or to become one, nobody will really care about what you do, so try your best. Good luck, you'll need it.

Choice 1 : Perhaps your children will follow your destiny if you didn't accomplish much

Modern nobility.

You've basically become nobility, assuming you succeeded being an entrepreneur. You have in your name a powerful corporation, that of course is based on money management, like Black Rock or the likes, and you have immense leverage over the country. Because you are totally not corrupted, you use your powers for the betterment of your mother country and raise the standard of living higher and higher. As you look over the horizon, you remember the countless battles you've read about in history books and in living memory of the elders, and you sigh hoping this time around it'll be different, that the sands of time will not engulf whatever improvements you did to your country. You turn back and start packing your things, more motivated than ever to make things right, to make your country powerful enough not to be bullied in the future, as it was countless times in the past.

Choice 1 : Perhaps your dreams will live on within another child

Data Analyst, one good example of career in Mathematics.

As one of your choices, the types of jobs like Data Analyst is available to you if you go in Mathematics or Statistics. Il mainly consists of gathering data and making computer models explaining the why and how of the gathered data. It is a sought after job and can pay up to 6 figures. However, it's a desk job, you'll be behind your computer monitor almost all day every day, but you chose this path knowing that, right? Either way, your life is nothing interesting, you grow old, see yourself become your parents and retire.

Choice 1 : Let's see what could've been

The ace of all careers.

You can go basically everywhere if you become a Mathematician. Of course, you can go in in education, finance, accounting, statistics, research and engineering. However, because we took Economics and Mathematics in University, engineering is not an option, but the others are. It's all fun and games, but it's a broad field, and you'll need more studying and experience gaining if you wish to specialize truly in something and obtain considerable capital.

Choice 1 : Let's see what could've been

Follow the money, become a Finance Analyst.

The fate of anyone that goes on this path is to create a finance consulting firm to the likes of Black Rock. However, if you don't, it's a cushy job where you spend time counting money and giving advice to people on how to save or gain money. It's a straight forward 6 figures job, nothing more interesting than that if you're not ambitious. You end up old and pretty wealthy because of your experience in the firm, you know how to invest in high risk high rewards stocks and actually profit.

Choice 1 : Let's see what could've been