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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are opposites here - He cares deeply about his career/job and while I like (maybe even love my job), I can easily put it to the side (I'm a lawyer).  I can tell you the differences between us:

- [b]I very much know that work is just what allows me to live my life.[/b]  My husband cannot always make that distinction.

- Even though we all spend at least 40 hours a week at work, I don't let the fact that I'm physically somewhere else for that amount time take over my life.  My husband has said on numerous occasions "Well, I spend most of my time at work."  In other words, just b/c you're there, does not mean you have to make a "life" there too.

- I essentially don't care if I'm well-liked.  I'm polite, make friends, etc., but I'm not overboard.  My husband cares deeply that people like him.

- I know that I'm good at what I do.  I think my husband is insecure about his skills at times.  So, he's always trying to prove himself.

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My husband is much more career-oriented than I am.  I'm not particularly ambitious--I work because I need a paycheck.  I got the education to allow me to find a reasonably lucrative job (government attorney) that does not make huge demands on my free time.  Absent some particular project that requires that I work late or take work home, I don't.  And I don't turn on my work phone at home.  I don't check work emails at home.  I don't think all that much about work, unless there's a really interesting issue that I'm mulling over.  I leave work at work.  My real life is my family, my friends, my books, my hobbies and interests.  [/quote]

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