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At the risk of a continuing threadjack....
What I really want to know, is everyone supposed to forgo low paying careers (teaching, anthropologist, etc, I'm not talking about jobs that don't require college or vocational schooling) just so they can make more money? To hell with following one's dreams/goals/etc so they can make an extra buck? And if so, what about those jobs that have been abandoned? I guess no one needs to teach our kids, or study our past, or study wildlife, etc. Are we supposed to live our lives preparing for the next disaster, waiting for the next misfortune, or actually LIVE our lives the way we want to, low paying job or no?
My dad is an elementary school teacher, and my hubby makes as much as a laborer as he does. He loves his job. It gives him great satisfaction....and he gave up an engineering job that paid him three times as much as he makes now to do something he wanted to do, and he excels in his field. I'm glad that not everyone subscribes to more more more philosophy that seems to be permeating this country, because a lot of kids would have been shortchanged....and this is just one example.
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Formerly Medusa
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