Choose one: Would you rather excel in your career or your love life?

Question

Given that you are only choose one and forgo the other..
A successful career which you loved and have passion in?
Or to meet the love of your life?
Do explain your choice.

Answer 1

These are my opinions only, and I would not want to offend anyone, but here is my perspective!
I would rather meet the love of my life, as a career has a shelf life, and is unfulfilling to me.Love it is endless, boundaryless, and it is forever giving..
To me love and passion are my life, to be loving and giving, to the man I love, and when I am in love, that is when I am successful. I am a chef, I work with passion, when in love my creativity is fueled with a new ardor and passion that shows through in my dishes. When a person is happy and in love, their idea of success may not be monetary but is no less worthy. To me just being in the arms of my twin soul, that is worth everything I have had to go through to this point. I would not give him up even in death, as I will cling to him until I am only bone, and in an eternal embrace our souls will be one!

In my opinion a career is not a way of living, you must only look into the eyes of a man/woman who will be fired as a new up and coming person takes his/her place and he/her is pushed aside. Then they have nothing, as they did not build up anything outside of that career, they did not have the time or energy to follow any other pursuit. Yes it is monetarily satisfying, but when you waken to a silent place with no love, it just isn't the same...Believe me I have had a wonderful career, and I have enjoyed my life now much more after leaving the career behind.

What an awesome question!
You have a wonderful mind and heart~

Answer 2

I would much rather excel in my love life, because the reward is something that is mind-blowingly wonderful.

However, reality makes succeeding in my career the more practical choice, because I'm not that idealistic about career. Career is all about trade-off. You allow certain things to be imperfect so that you can get that promotion, increment, bonus or free-time. Careers are much simpler to predict, expect of and give to.

Love lives are much messier, more random and prone to unexpected ROIs.

Having said all that, my answer to your question is, love life. Because in reality I would choose my career, in a hypothetical situation as that which you present, my love life would be the more valuable option.

Answer 3

Just remember that a major in any of those other fields rarely ever leads to a job using that education. Especially philosophy, the humanities or Political Science. Only Engineering or business degrees have a high rate of placing people into well paying jobs. In my daughter's case she wanted to become a policy maker in the transportation field. She took her BA in economics, her MSc in Technology Management specializing in transportation and is now getting her PhD in civil engineering specializing in transportation. As a college undergrad she also became an emergency medical technician. During her fellowship in Washington DC she became considered an expert in first responder transportation and has been part of the team on the writing of regulations. Especially as she is now licensed to drive first responder emergency vehicles and drives an 8 ton GMC diesel ambulance while getting her PhD. She has a year to go for her PhD and already has been passed up the food chain for being over qualified to be a professor at a mere state university and will likely end up back in Washington DC. I mention this to show you the sort of path you can follow to to really well to both earn a really good engineering salary while being a lot more as well. Regardless, if you only do one thing and only plan to get a bachelors degree, engineering is the best possible thing to do it in. You can always read about politics and philosophy on your own.

Answer 4

I am actually in the midst of making a movie about this very topic, and I have not been on here for months. Weird that this is the question I come across. I would, however, take the love of my life, because no matter my career, I will always have someone to love me. Your job can't love you back, even if you are dealing with people, like a social worker, they are not your job, social working is.So yeah the love of my life.

Answer 5

I don't know. Can I still have a successful career, but in something I didn't love? If so, I would take love life! I would probably take love life either way, but I haven't started working in a job of my career preference yet. I'm still in college working as a waitress, living with the love of my life!

Answer 6

I know that you can only choose one. I would choose the love life because I think that when you are happy things come your way in other areas of your life aswell

Answer 7

Career.
- If he is truly the one for you then he should understand and would wait for a little while or do something about it to get close to you. Career doesn't always pop up and greet you. Now is your chance.

Answer 8

I would rather XXL everywhere.

Jesting apart, I think love is more important in life than a career...... in any case these days of fast life, loyalty to any single career does not pay.

Answer 9

My first exclamation here was "Love!", but then I thought about it too much.-_-

So now I'm gonna say, I'd rather excel in my career and make enough money to go travel the world.

Answer 10

what if i were a pimp? then technically i could have both.

if not, would rather have the love of my life. work is a means to an end, its not the end. 8 hrs a day is 8 hrs. true love is forever.