Eyes open when you chose your academics and your job. Not sure I would repeat my choices. Here comes the revelation: Youth does not know the benefit of hindsight. And it is a good thing. When we are young, we are living in the here and now. We do not ask about the future. That is a privilege that makes us courageous in our youth. When we are old, we tend to glorify the good old days. The good old days were certainly not better than the presence, we were all just younger and confuse the one with the other.
If you could beam me back to the 90s, I'd do it again. If you'd ask whether I'd join academia (the "humanities") today, I'd say no.
Eyes open when you chose your academics and your job. Not sure I would repeat my choices. Here comes the revelation: Youth does not know the benefit of hindsight. And it is a good thing. When we are young, we are living in the here and now. We do not ask about the future. That is a privilege that makes us courageous in our youth. When we are old, we tend to glorify the good old days. The good old days were certainly not better than the presence, we were all just younger and confuse the one with the other.
While that may be so, I still think Freddie deBoer is correct in writing: „It's So Sad When Old People Romanticize Their Heydays, Also the 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive“ https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-so-sad-when-old-people-romanticize