I’ll be forever thankful for what I achieved, but forever resentful of the culture that led me to believe it was worth achieving in the first place..
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I made it, accomplished what I set out to achieve, and I wouldn’t trade anything for the experience of having done it. Spoke to my brother yesterday who is still in the corporate world, he told me he dreams of being a bartender in Texas sometimes..
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My girlfriend has had a different life. She’s from a poor part of India, worked hard to get to JPMorgan there. She was told “Why do you work here? A woman should have a family.” She told me this was sexist.. sometimes I think there was actually some wisdom in that statement..
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She works for big tech and we live in a tech city now. They pay her about 1/2 of her market value. But she can’t quit or get competing offers because of her visa situation. They know this. They didn’t give her a raise last year "because the stock price went up”.
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Surely the year that the stock price goes down, they will give her a raise, right? They have assured her that her promotion is “imminent” for over a year now. That money would change our lives, if it lasted. She has started to become disillusioned.
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I don’t think I contaminated her worldview, I tried hard not to. She worked for a few years in NZ before coming here, she often tells me now that “this place is not like NZ.”
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I dream often now of packing up and moving to the country, maybe Montana or Wyoming.. with our computers, and start a new dream of a new kind of life. A new adventure, starting from 0. With an intention to build a home and a family. Funny how many roads lead back to the source..
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I’ve tried to talk to her about this, but I know it involves asking her to sacrifice her own dreams of being a tech executive. I can’t be responsible for killing the dream she’s worked her whole life for, especially when you consider the impact on poor family back in India.
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Interested in your perspective.
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Thoughtful thread. But aren't you contradicting yourself? You write: I will be "forever resentful of the culture that led me to believe it was worth achieving in the first place" and yet you emphasize your respect for your girlfriend wanting to become a "tech executive"...
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My respect is for her dreams, not the goal of being a tech executive.
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Ok, I just mean:most people dream of something like having a career, become rich, be influential etc.But as you achieved that (in part at least), you have realized that this is probably not something, which makes life worth living. Maybe you should talk to her about that?
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