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Ask HN: Generalized trajectories of life choices

1 pointsby slimshady94almost 7 years ago
I&#x27;m interested in knowing - on an individual&#x2F;familial level, across countries and cultures - what are the careers&#x2F;achievements&#x2F;joys&#x2F;losses&#x2F;mistakes of people similar to me. What is the career and likely trajectories of X people like, what their children and family life is like, and how they rank against other groups. ( X = first&#x2F;second&#x2F;third&#x2F;fourth generation immigrants, non-immigrant, doctors&#x2F;engineers, non-immigrant businessmen, non-immigrant artistic&#x2F;cultural professionals).<p>What they&#x27;re children&#x27;s life trajectories are like, their average income, quality of life, what happens if they get hooked on drugs, what happens if they get into sports&#x2F;music etc. Any other life choices. I try to get an idea through LinkedIn, of where people started in the 70s, 80s, and where they&#x27;ve ended up today, but it is a very small sample size. I&#x27;m lookong for some type of census studies&#x2F;research on what groups of people are on average successful, on a generational timescale. But not statistics - actual life stories aggregated 100s at a time.

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