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[quote=Anonymous]28 really isn't a bad age to realize that maybe the path you are going down and may find interesting just isn't working careerwise. You are in a position where you can double down on your area and then you may well be stuck there or you can admit that it didn't really work, you couldn't make a living, etc. and move on. No real shame in that.

I came to DC intending to be a China expert; I soon realized that DC was full of similar (generally smarter) people trying for the exact same thing and we were all in sort of a rut of low paid jobs at think tanks and so forth. I also realized that I really don't have the raw intelligence to be an expert in anything. So now I do business development and marketing which is fine.
 
A lot of smart young people come to DC and seem to think that there should be a need for expertience XYZ and get frustrated when they don't find that. I don't know what your focus is but if you are only making 38k that might be the market telling you that there really isn't a need for your field no matter how interesting you find it. This country only needs so many Southeast Asian policy, Middle East affairs, West African politics, etc. experts despite what colleges and graduate schools and study abroad proponents will tell you.[/quote]

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