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[quote=Anonymous]My parents think of themselves as old school Chinese scholars who abhor commercialism, business, and money-grubbing (They got stuck here after TianAnMen). We were maybe lower middle class income-wise, but rich in many kinds of social capital. As a kid when I threw a tantrum over something they couldn't afford, they'd dismiss me by saying, "When you grow up, work on Wall Street and you can buy whatever you want." They would often point out the cruelty of uneducated immigrant parents who telling their children they're failures for not getting into Harvard and becoming doctors. So naturally, my sister and I "wasted" our Ivy League degrees on the humanities and chose fields with ridiculously low/no starting salaries. Ten years out we're both living comfortable UMC lives and doing things we love to do. It would have been a far greater "waste" for us to have taken the easy path and sold our souls for a strategy consulting or analyst job.[/quote]
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