Manage My Career

             That is something that I do not know at this point in my life. I know that when I do get a career I will manage it between work and my home life. My family will be the first on my list. A person can all ways find a job, but you cannot find a new family. I do not even know what I want my career to be. I know that I want to be financially stable, without over doing it.
             I would like to be successful in my career but success has a different meaning to me than Studs Turkel, he though that to be successful you had to be in the elite. Success to him was a thing that you had, such as money and fame. Success to me is something that you feel. If you do not have lots of money and are not famous, that does not mean that you are not successful. Raising a good stable, healthy family and being happy with what you have is success to me. Success comes from the inside; it is what you believe. If your goal is to get a job and you accomplish that, you are successful. Setting goals in life and meeting them, or trying your best to meet them is what success is all about. The world today puts too much on material possessions. If nothing is ever good enough for you, as in "The Rocking Horse Winner," by D.H. Lawrence, then you will never be happy. In that story the boy kept striving and working and pushing himself to accomplish his goal, but the harder he tried the harder it became. In this instance I would measure his success on his effort, on how much he tried, not on weather he made it or not.
             We all have the different ways that we view life and work. Some think of it as, have to get far and make lots of money. Some think, that what ever I do I must do it on my own without anyone's help. Others, see it as everything has to be perfect, no exceptions. These were some of the views that we portrayed in Erich Fromn's, "Work in an Alienated Society." I viewed myself like the
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