skubikky
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Post by skubikky on Jun 18, 2012 11:49:16 GMT -5
I do appreciate the responses, but I'm talking about major life choices. In my case, it was either Big 8 Accounting or Goldman Sachs. It was one or the other, stay in Atlanta or NYC. An employer never did or would have had that much impact on "changing my life forever"...at least in my estimation. I've lived and worked in a number of different places.(California, Georgia, NYC, Syracuse, Rochester, Copenhagen). I took from each the experience and exposure that I wanted/needed and went on to the next opportunity. DH still would have been the one I married....no matter where I decided to work. The choices that impacted my life were the education I chose to pursue, who I decided to marry and what values we had and built together....never who I worked for or where it was. Not in my life.
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Firebird
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Post by Firebird on Jun 18, 2012 19:01:06 GMT -5
Every decision is potentially life altering. I'm not sure I'd be so quick to judge what is and isn't a "major life decision" for someone else. Personally, my "life decision" was dropping out of university and moving to NYC on my own. You might say "well that wasn't a major life decision because you could have gone back." But that was my defining moment, because that was the moment when I decided to strike out on my own and be an independent adult regardless of the consequences. Staying would have changed the course of my life. As for "you could have gone back eventually," I DID go back two years later. And that was an equally momentous decision, almost as big a deal as leaving was in the first place. So that became, for me, major life decision #2. Both were important, and pivotal, and have changed the course of my life.
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happyscooter
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Post by happyscooter on Jun 19, 2012 6:46:34 GMT -5
When I graduated from high school in the 70s, you could get a good job without going to college. There was a company that I had wanted to work for since I knew what work was. It didn't matter what I was doing, I just wanted to work there. I applied there and another company. This company stalled on hiring me, the other one was considering me. In the end, my dream company hired me while the other company went the other way. (their new hire didn't show up on day one and never called). I stayed at my dream company for 3 years until I realized they were stringing me along to use me as an example of what the managers could do once they got into power. (horrible things) I left and never looked back. The next place I went to I stayed for 8 years then quit to be a sahm. Best choice I ever made. I was able to work part time and still bring in the same amount of money. I know I would have never quit the dream company to be a sahm, the money and bennies were too good. But still I do sometimes wonder if I had stayed, what DH and I would have had now.
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