Comment by taylorius

An issue I have with this, is that it poses two rather contrary hypotheses.

1. When considering a career, people do a bad job of unpacking the detailed day-to-day activities that make it up.

2. When shown these detailed day-to-day activities people can do an excellent job of assessing whether they would be "happy" doing it or not.

Why would a person who is so bad at making the leap from the vague notion of being a professor to imagining the real-world actualities of that job, suddenly gain 100% detailed insight into whether or not those actual tasks would make them happy?