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Am I the only one disgusted by the elevation of career over life? Any successful and healthy marriage is a partnership where you work towards the benefit of eac
by kobeya 9y ago
Am I the only one disgusted by the elevation of career over life? Any successful and healthy marriage is a partnership where you work towards the benefit of each other, and sometimes that means compromise too. What should I value more, my family or my job? I think I'd have to be mentally deranged to pick the latter. On their deathbed, nobody ever said "I wish that I spent more time in the office."
- Top19 9y agoYes this has been pretty much the trend of society over the last 40 years. The focus on career and work ebbs and flows in American society rising with the tides of individualism and ebbing when community and service come back into fold. We might be, or soon will be, at “peak career”. Same thing with being entrepreneur, at various times it’s been denigrated as well as lauded. Pretty disgusting though that career has even trumped things like citizenship. Pretty soon we’ll see things like “if your parents aren’t willing to sell both of their kidneys to fund your MBA...”