Can you really have it all?
It's the ultimate question: can you really have it all? The relationship, that job, a family, money, a house...can you really have it all, or does something have to give?
I was thinking about this recently when I realized my brother and I were the only single ones out of our generation in the family, ie: all our cousins. Out of our cousins we are both the most highly educated (both have completed post graduate studies) and fair to say, we both have the highest paying jobs. We've also each bought our own apartment.
Now - before anyone starts shooting me down about how life is more than a job. I know that. And you don't need a post grad or even a uni degree to have a decent job. I know that. And 'decent job' all comes down to what the person thinks who is doing the job. I know that, too.
But I'm trying to make a point here.
Those who have paid-by-the-hour retail jobs are married, or engaged. Those who have more blue collar jobs are engaged, or close enough. Could we have unwittingly let relationships and our more personal lives pass us by, as we persued careers and further study?
Or is it just that those who we're more likely to be attracted to (big assumption there, I'm well aware) are those who are in the same sort of industries as us, and we're all currently caught up in the same big rat race that we won't slow down and have it all until we've met our initial career and educational goals?
Or maybe my brother & I are just unlucky in love..who knows?!
I was thinking about this recently when I realized my brother and I were the only single ones out of our generation in the family, ie: all our cousins. Out of our cousins we are both the most highly educated (both have completed post graduate studies) and fair to say, we both have the highest paying jobs. We've also each bought our own apartment.
Now - before anyone starts shooting me down about how life is more than a job. I know that. And you don't need a post grad or even a uni degree to have a decent job. I know that. And 'decent job' all comes down to what the person thinks who is doing the job. I know that, too.
But I'm trying to make a point here.
Those who have paid-by-the-hour retail jobs are married, or engaged. Those who have more blue collar jobs are engaged, or close enough. Could we have unwittingly let relationships and our more personal lives pass us by, as we persued careers and further study?
Or is it just that those who we're more likely to be attracted to (big assumption there, I'm well aware) are those who are in the same sort of industries as us, and we're all currently caught up in the same big rat race that we won't slow down and have it all until we've met our initial career and educational goals?
Or maybe my brother & I are just unlucky in love..who knows?!
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