Originally Posted by
grolby
Duh. That wasn't the point. It's still safer to (say) work in IT than fish for king crab. If running the odds out in your favor is the goal, finding out where those best odds are is necessary for meeting it. Doing that may not be possible. But that's the point.
The best advice in this thread so far was the post advising the OP to buy life insurance. No matter he goes with, that's a good idea.
Is it really safer - do you get what i'm saying? Odds are odds. People are still winning the lottery, but they're more ten times more likely to get hit by lightning.