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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP if you were my child, I would say you were comparing your reality to other people’s images. I would tell my child to stop comparing. I would say to assume all work is hard. What, to you, is worth the hard work?

I would tell my child to use internships to help them learn about this. Is pure money all the time worth it? Building things? Discovering things? Helping people? Leading teams?

Even in mid-life, if you did an exercise like this, could you find small changes you can make to test the waters? Tired of dealing with entitled kids: switch to public? Want to only work with bright, motivated kids: switch to that kind of role? Want to work with adults, mostly leaning teams: switch to working in an admin role?

Never do kids ever pick the right, cushy, hybrid job at 22. If you try, that situation will last temporarily and when it disappears, you will find no reason to want that job. Instead find something permanent worth holding onto with all the ups and downs.[/quote]

This is a really wise post, PP, thanks. Tucking it away in my brain for future parenting needs. [/quote]

+1 super wise post. The advice to your child of "assume all work is hard, What, to you, is worth the hard work?" is probably one of those dcum nuggets I'll take with me for a long time.

Most work ends up feeling hard and stressful in some ways op, because we are kind of wired that way. that being said, I do think being a federal employee at least in my area of the federal government is a nice balance of interesting, sometimes challenging work, hard working colleagues who believe in the mission, coupled with decent pay and benefits and generally good work life balance unless you get into more supervisory GS-15 roles but even then still more so than a corporate lawyer job. [/quote]

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