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[quote=Anonymous]OP, a few years ago I turned down the job title I'd been working toward for years because it would have required a move splitting up our young family for what looked like a couple of years. I couldn't handle that so I said no. The opportunity has not come around again and my career has gone in a different direction - moving forward such that that door is now closed to me. It makes me sad sometimes.

The thing I tell myself that makes me feel better is that we can't know thr future consequences of all our decisions because so much is based on luck and timing - what we do know is what our values are. And the values we make decisions on are the ones that make us who we are. These career compromises are the external signs of the internal decisions we've made about who we want to be. I can live with being a person with the run of the mill job who cares about keeping her family together most. I hope you can value being a person for whom money is not the most important thing in the world.[/quote]

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