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SheilaT

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7. Passion for the job is one thing.

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 05:34 AM

Jun 2015

But if it keeps you from having a life outside the job, that's another thing.

I liked to say that I worked to live, not that I lived to work. In short, my job paid my bills, but it was not my life.

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Reflections on Stress and Long Hours on Wall Street [View all] Jesus Malverde Jun 2015 OP

Perhaps this is the vicious cycle of using money to measure status/self-worth daredtowork Jun 2015 #1

Oh no, take off one weekend per month? lovemydog Jun 2015 #2

P.S. I think they should be required to spend one weekend a month lovemydog Jun 2015 #3

Wall Street moved on a long time ago, the mythology hasn't Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2015 #4

People who have no life of any kind outside of their job SheilaT Jun 2015 #5

I think it depends on whether a real personal passion intersects with that job Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2015 #6

Passion for the job is one thing. SheilaT Jun 2015 #7