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Re: Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!)
Subject:Re: Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:05:48 -0800
My point was, you can't do both at the same time. I suspect that most
people definitely don't choose to pursue success at the total expense
of a personal life, but scale back their career objectives to some extent
in order to have a personal life, family, etc., and they may very will do
as you suggest, shift between one or the other as their primary objective
over time. They just need to accept that during those times in their
professional lives when they are not focused on career they will end up
being that part of the survey that earns xx% less than those who are
burning the candle at both ends with work.
> Maybe I have a distinct distrust of either-or statements, but I suggest
> that it's a matter of degree. Not many of us, male or female, can - or
> want - to be a super-achiever. If you don't want that level of success,
> then some balance between the two sets of goals is obtainable. True, you
> may have to postpone or delay one set of goals while following the
> other, or maybe change your tactics. But, really, it's just the
> difference between the dream and the reality. If you put abandon one set
> of goals entirely, then perhaps you need to ask how sincerely you wanted
> them in the first place.
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