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Cake day: June 5th, 2025
  • Marinated fish is used to add fat, salt, umami, and a hint of acid, maybe some funkiness, in a soft, lightly chewy texture.

    Salt, umami, and savory acid can come from the marinade itself: soy sauce, vinegar, maybe some lactic acid from fermented/pickled vegetables.

    Not every component has to come from the same ingredient, and the beauty of a bowl is that you just need to hit all the notes across all the ingredients.

    So something like smashed marinated cucumbers, seaweed salad, pickled radishes, vinegared sushi rice, sesame oil, sesame seeds, seaweed flakes, will already hit a lot of the major notes expected in a poke bowl. The satisfying chew of marinated cooked mushrooms, tofu or other processed soy or maybe even edamame, seitan, or whatever your preferred textured protein is (vegan cheese substitutes can sometimes work, test the flavors for complementing the Hawaiian/Japanese leaning ingredients in the bowl).

    In the end, poke bowls are rice bowls. Mix some flavors that work together, like modern Hawaiian combinations (drawing on Japanese, Chinese, Korean influence). Or get ambitious mixing stuff from other cultures and flavors.

  • The overwhelming majority of bachelor degree holders don’t work in a field related to their major. Something like 30% of university graduates are working in a field related to their major.

    That’s fine, and it’s always been normal. A university education isn’t purely a vocational school, and generalized education is still very useful for navigating the world, including careers.

    Most job fields just don’t have a corresponding major. So much of the economic world is just administrative work, and the skill sets to be able to manage that are both universal across all job fields (using email and calendar software, word processing, the entire spectrum of skillsets for spreadsheets, maybe even basic scripting or programming, generally navigating through UIs of unfamiliar software or websites) or highly specific to one field and not necessarily learned in school (how to use a proprietary software product, or a particular piece of equipment invented long after you graduated from school, etc.).

    Most jobs involve the intersection of two or more fields, and very few people will have majored in coursework related to both, and tend to have learned one or more of the intersecting fields well after they graduated, on the job or otherwise. Software sales. Aircraft leasing broker. Solar panel financing. Data journalism. One interesting area is that there are a surprisingly number of people who make the jump from oil and gas distillation/refining to becoming the master distiller for a major spirits producer.

    There are really only a few dozen majors, but probably a few thousand career paths from there.

  • Realistically, I still mostly love my job, but every job has parts of it that people hate.

    Pro athletes usually love their own sport, but have grueling travel schedules and mandatory media appearances they don’t like. Some of them seem to like the sport itself just fine, but hate their colleagues or the organization they work in.

    Doctors may love saving lives but hate the recordkeeping piece. Or the hours. Or they might actually hate their own patients as people, from the frustrations of trying to help people who won’t help themselves.

    Once we understand that every job has different parts we can love and hate, the key is to find a job where the bad parts are worth putting up with so that the good parts make up for it.