Wednesday , January 1 , 27 <| sep |> Population is pretty stable . I don ' t have exact numbers , but it feels like it ' s at about what it was before I last quit around 4 years ago . Definitely still playable , and not dead by any means . There ' s still plenty of action , especially at primetime . <| sep |> I don ' t like freshwater . The ocean is fine though . It ' s really hard to drown in the ocean because you float so easily . <| sep |> Some dumb meme going around in this sub . <| sep |> Stop thinking of it as a thing you do after high school , and more of a degree that sets you on a literally lifelong path of work . Would you be happier working with machines , or working with chemical processes ? Cold call some companies , do some shadowing if you don ' t know . Both fields are in a growth market and there ' s crossover from mechanical into chemical but not typically the other way around .