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[quote=Anonymous]My dad was an executive at an investment bank in another big city. He thought all of us kids would go into finance and make it clear that we could have jobs at the bank when we finished school. He was so absent in my early childhood and so stressed out sometimes that his path wasn’t attractive in any way to me and two of my brothers.

I had a liberal arts degree and went to grad school for education. 15 years into my career, I make $70k. My work is meaningful. I know I make a different every day. It sucks that we don’t pay people in education well, but it also sucks that people assume we lead sad lives on our modest salaries or that do this work because we are lazy and couldn’t hack it in another field. Ironically, that often comes from people who are sedentary for most of the day.

Anyway, just don’t assume that your path is the path to success. Success is different for different people. For my dad, it was having heaps of money. For me, it was helping people and having a happy, simple life.

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