Make a choice: Your career or Love?

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I believe I'd choose my career first. You can choose love but then later regret and/ resent the person you love because you feel unfulfilled. I'd rather think love can wait. If it was meant to be, then it will happen but careers don't wait around for nobody.
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I agree, love can what - chances of a lifetime do not come that often. I they come you have to trust your heart and go for it

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I agree, love can whait - chances of a lifetime do not come that often. I they come you have to trust your heart and go for it

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... wait ...
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Many would choose a career, specifically if love isn't in the picture. For myself, I have found love at an early age and would prefer that over a career. A career can end at a moments notice. Health could prevent you from returning back, you get a new manager that wants to clean house, or your company simply goes under and your left without a job. The same goes for dreams; they are forever changing. Plus, once one dream is realized you create another one, or the other dream becomes unrealistic. Either way, Love is constant. True love is when an individual cares and stands by you when everything else around you falls to the ground. The become uplifting, even with just their presence near by. It's the one thing that can always be count upon. Despite the fights that are sure to come, it will always be there, even when you're too old to work.
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I can't say this is that difficult of a choice. Most people work jobs to get by, and even though I like my job on some/most days, I'd still rather pick something I love over it
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Making a choice between these are difficult. To solve the problem, you should choice someone who can love you and support you while you are doing the career you love, so that you don't need to choose between the two.
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At this point of time in my life, I would choose my career over love. I'm young and right now my dreams consist mainly of where I would like to be in life professionally. However, I do think that at some point in my life, in the future, I might be more inclined to choose love over my career. But right now I would like to establish my career and understand myself and what I am capable of without the assistance of a significant other.
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no career no love,career will provide the ingredent for love.i choose career.
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If I have an alternative source of income to take care of my family, I can sacrifice career for love
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Well, I thought that I was one of those people that would always choose my career. However, I met the right person and I was about to chose love. He passed away a couple months ago, so now I have to focus on my career. I really surprised myself, so I think that it depends on how much you love the other person and what time it is in your life.
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I think it depends on how you view your future result. You might wait to achieve success in career but miss out on love in the process, while love might be the key driver to a successfull career!
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i will choose career

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i will choose career
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Fortunately, I never faced such dilemma but I can truly understand how difficult it could be to make a decision in such situation.
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Career first then love, the reason why i choose career over love is because love can fade away with time but when you have a career at least you will still have something to hold on to when love dies.....
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Kitkat3 wrote:Well, I thought that I was one of those people that would always choose my career. However, I met the right person and I was about to chose love. He passed away a couple months ago, so now I have to focus on my career. I really surprised myself, so I think that it depends on how much you love the other person and what time it is in your life.
Oh, what a loss! But as they say, "It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." Cliche but true.

I pray you (and I) still have another try at love.
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I prefer my career to love because, it is the income being earned from my career, I can use to actualize my love life, namely- to spend on marriage, to rent a house(or build) and to even use such earned income to feed both the wife and children. If a man is not financially stable or can't meet basic needs of a woman, at times this makes most women abandon their matrimonial homes because they do not feel financially secured. So, what is the benefit of having a love life which is short-lived? It is traumatic to see your loved one(wife or girl friend) being taken over by another man just because, you can not take good care of her. When a career is not taken seriously is another factor for the high rate of social vices, because most of the children who perpetrate criminal acts are from broken homes. So, it is my candid advice to secure your career first so as to prevent cases of broken homes and by and large, have a less or crime free society.
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