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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the why is that we have choices, so we want to make choices that align with our values whether that's money or joy.  A PP mentioned being part of a blue-collar union.  If you grew up knowing you'd be a farmer like your dad, or go work at the GM car factory in Detroit like all your uncles, you weren't thinking about fulfillment.  You knew it was the path you were destined for and focused on financial stability.  Not wealth, just stable middle class life.

Knowing I don't have to follow in my parents' footsteps I have the ability to make life choices.  Our young people are being guided in schools that academics is important because it opens doors and unlocks roads to fulfillment.  If that isn't coupled with hard conversations about being self-supporting, being able to save for retirement, raise children and so on then it's easy to get lost in the airy-fairy part of joy and making an impact.  [/quote]

You do realize it’s possible to have both an “airy-fairy” career that makes an impact AND the ability to live comfortably? I have one of those jobs, and I’m still able to save for my kids’ college and my own retirement. I may have to sit in coach when I travel, but that isn’t a problem to me since that seat ends up at the same destination as the first class seat.

It’s extremely shortsighted to think people in lower paying professions can’t have things like financial security. I’m living proof we can. [/quote]

I'm the PP and didn't mean to say that it isn't always one or the other.  I'm not super high income by DCUM standards and went to a crap state school for college so I have some experience there.  My point was that as a society we aren't doing a great job telling kids that they have to support themselves first.  Fulfilling is wonderful, but what's even better is food on the table.  OP as a mentor was pushing the young person towards higher income jobs making sure they see that there are financial trade-offs for careers that might not provide as much financial freedom.  [/quote]

OP here. Yea, exactly. [/quote]

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