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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to advise my daughters not to kill the relationship on the hill of "But my career."  When it comes down to it, work's not really all that exciting, even though it may seem so when you are in your early or mid-twenties.  IN retrospect, I regret the years I spent apart from my spouse due to 'but my career', etc.

In general, I'd like to tell them to give less of their souls to the company store, but that so goes against all that bullshit that you get at your liberal arts college about 'making a difference' and your career as your identity, etc. 
I suppose I"ve been thinking about mortality more than usual this week, and in the grand scheme of things, I"m feeling like most of the time it is just a job.[/quote]

I tell my daughter the exact opposite.  Don’t make a decision about your education or your career based on a man who is not your husband or a woman who is not your wife.  [/quote]

An enthusiastic +1.

I've watched my stepson throw his education and career away for his girlfriend and he's wasted much of his 20's with her.  She has a great career going, while he's floundering.  My daughter will be getting the same advice my mother gave me:  make your decisions on education and career based on YOU.  Relationships often don't last and then where will you be?[/quote]

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