u/Material_Painting_32

Hello everyone! I am heading to college this fall and I am trying to start making valuable projects.

I am planning to build a couple pipelines that would load raw listing data and then be cleaned through a medallion architecture,

my scripts would be orchestrated, containered and ci/cd (I think this is just version control please correct if I am wrong)

and then I would load the gold layers into a visualization tool. I would like to also implement some methodologies such as kimballs bottom up 4 step approach that I learned, and also working with SCD through start and end dates to track time in the market.

Overall, here would be my stack:

Python, postgresql, dbt, airflow, powerBI, docker, github ofc

My questions are, however, is am I doing too much? Am I not doing enough? How can I improve this project so that I can reap the benefits of the project itself?

Thanks!

I am trying to decide which I should go into, so I want to hear external opinions for why or why not to choose from either of them?

So my girlfriend (20f) and I (19m) are pretty young, and very early in our careers. We are both in college right now, I being at a state college already with my AA and her at the cc right next to it planning to transfer once she earns hers. We have both agreed that we want to FIRE and retire as early as possible and if we’re lucky, fatFIRE.

My main issue, is that she wants to be a teacher.
Don’t get me wrong, I want to support her, but from an outside perspective, I see how much she hates school to begin with. I can only imagine the life as a teacher once she’s spending 8+ hours there and then having to grade 100+ papers a week at home? Yeah no. And all of that just to earn 50k /yr.

The problem is she’s convinced herself she’s not capable enough for anything else. I know that’s not true. I have looked into real estate agents as a career since I have a lot of family that is in the business and honestly I think she would excel at it, and I have brought it up to which she didn’t seem exactly opposed to it. On top of that, she wouldn’t have to spend another two years in (small amount) debt (she’s middle class poor family yk how that goes) and could instead be showing and closing housing for double, even triple the amount she would be as a teacher.

While I will be getting into tech for my career, I cannot stress to her enough that retiring at 40 with a shitload of cash cannot happen on a tech + teacher salary. If we’re bringing into 250k+ yr total we will be one and done and she won’t ever have to work a day in her life compared to the alternative of the soul sucking teaching career for 30+ years.

TL;DR

I honestly just don’t think she is passionate enough about the teaching job to throw away a much better career and go into debt for it, especially since we want to retire as soon as possible. From a logistics perspective, it’s a no brainer— but is it ethical?