Make a choice: Your career or Love?

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This is a great question, and I really don't know. One time I did choose love over career, and the relationship ended very badly. I have regretted that decision since, but honestly if I found myself in the situation once again, I don't know if I would choose my career first.
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Love, definitely. I can always get another job.
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I will always choose love over career. Loving someone special give one strength and inspiration to accomplish anything.
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I fell in love while I was in college before I had a career. So love won job was necessary but not getting in the way of love.
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Seriously its hard question for a quick decision. But depending on the question of human survival in the current monitory world and my middle-class family background, I choose my career.
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I would definitely choose my career and love would follow. Love with no sufficient income may spell doom. I have not been in a situation where i had to make such a choice.
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Well, your career will not be there by your deathbed. Choosing career over love would not happen if you are truly in love. Anyway such a situation would not happen, because you would figure out a solution together.
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I do think it's possible to have both. However, sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where it's not possible and you have to choose the one you can't live without.
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Love knows no distance. Love knows no boundaries. True love will survive in the absence of the parties involved. Leaving your love for your career shouldn't affect true love.
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It wouldn't sit well with me to leave love for my career..If my career came before I found love then perhaps I could make both work. If not, In this life, who I love will always remain more important. Other jobs will pay for what I need. Love with someone, when you are lucky enough to find 'the one' is all I want in life. Can't snuggle your career in bed or grow to a withered age with it, nor can you be by its side in your dying day. Your career will not see you through your last days on this earth and tell you it loves you, and that you will always be beautiful to them. That is how I see it.
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I think that this is really an unfair choice. Especially within this book, it shows that the love of your life may not really actually be that dedicated to you if she isn't able to understand how an opportunity like this would affect your life. He should never have been put in that situation in the first place.
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This could be a tough one. But if one is to be totally honest, love won't put food on the table. It would be really nice to have both, but if one has to go, it won't be career.
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This would really depend on the chemistry of the relationship. As for right now, career would be my top priority. And to get a dream job like Max gets, there is just no question of letting the opportunity pass.
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It may sound really harsh, but I would choose my career first. I want to make a name for myself and make my parents proud.
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Both- when you love your career!
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