Word: career
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...nice to know that Caustic Sen, and hopefully others, feel compelled to at least consider the social implications of a finance career. I only hope that some considering that track will recognize the flimsiness of the humanitarian argument. The moral good of most investment bankers' work is purely incidental. While finance has helped many people and communities, it has also hurt many in the interest of making a few people richer...
Senior shooting guard Mike Beam upped his 9.8 points-per-game average with a career-high 22, hitting a crisp 6-of-7 from the field, including 2-of-3 from three-point range...
...couple of weeks ago, my friends were telling me they need to do well in their classes in order to get a "good" career in investment banking or consulting. Are those really the only places where good careers exist? And even beyond that, do we really need a career? What about just having a job? What about pouring all of our energy and talent into our home rather than our office...
True, having a career and a good family are not mutually exclusive--many people have both. But having both involves sacrifice in career and family. Like any life decision, it is, in the end, a question of priorities. Why choose the career? Is it because we really want it or is it because we feel it is what we should do? People at Harvard tell us over and over again that we should do what we love. What troubles me is so few of us here ever include having a family as an option...
What I am saying is that those careers aren't our only options. It really is okay to have a job instead of a career, to center one's life on the home instead of the office. Some would say this is a waste of a Harvard education--in fact, some already have. But I don't think it is a waste for the main beneficiaries of my Harvard education to be my kids. Nor do I think that those who do devote their lives to their kids, like my own parents, are failures. One of the greatest things...