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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
I think they're great topics for eulogies and obituraries, and that's really about it, unless any one of those activities becomes something you do full-time.
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How is that any different from work notoriety? You die, your 40 years spent with the company are mentioned, you get a gold star in your obituary... then what? How many people are *really* remembered for their jobs, in the end? Other than maybe Albert Einstein and some famous scientists... but most of us are a lot more anonymous to the world than we'd like to think, outside of our fields.
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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
There's nothing wrong with it, but it's going to be seen in the same light as somebody who doesn't want a girlfriend or get married and start a family. It seems shallow, but it is what it is
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Huh? How is not wanting to be an attention whore the same as not wanting to be married and have a family? The logic doesn't flow with me, here...
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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
I'm not going to feel sad for them over it because I think it's a fair trade-off. In the end, if they didn't feel that their sacrifice was worth it to achieve and maintain the lifestyle granted by your career, they'd be reconsidering their career options.
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Now this, I can agree with. I don't necessarily feel sad for those people... they ought to have known what they were getting into, and I hope it made them happy. The only thing I dislike is when people do lead lives like that, and bitch about it all the time, or get to the end of their life and regret all they didn't do because they spent so much time on their career. I have no time for that kind of bullshit. They should have reconsidered their career "options" (life priorities, really) a long time ago. You only get one life, after all.
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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
Figuratively speaking, it is.
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Figuratively speaking... where? Hell, if it did go on your tombstone, I'd understand the whole notion a lot better. But most people get a little paragraph in the local newspaper, that's about it. Maybe something bigger if you were an American president, or CEO of some big company, or particularly if you did something unethical and then killed yourself later (drama always goes down well in the history books). Otherwise, we're all dust, out in the recycling with yesterday's paper.