{"quotes":[{"text":"Because you do it out of passion, as well as hoping it will bring better opportunity. It's like you're investing in yourself, so although you don't see anything up front there's always the possibility that the kind of compensation that is priceless can come later. For someone who's striving to get where they're meant to be, opportunity over a quick buck is something that will always be taken by the wise. Because they know opportunity is king, and all other benefits will follow...","author":"Rico Lamoureux","tags":["career-choices","hope","working-hard"],"id":2206,"author_id":"Rico+Lamoureux"},{"text":"An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","career-paths","children","controlling-parents","family","family-pressure","free-choice","freedom","happiness","life","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":14394,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-advice","career-choices","career-paths","children","family","ilife","life-advice","life-choices","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":20822,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","children","choices","experience","learning","learning-process","life","life-choices","mistakes","parenting","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":34369,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that’s unfortunately the belief system in most cultures.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","children","controlling-parents","culture","family","family-pressure","free-choice","freedom","happiness","life","life-advice","life-choices","parents","society","young-adults"],"id":123282,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","career-paths","children","controlling-parents","family","family-pressure","life","life-choices","parents","young-adults"],"id":137140,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"When true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["career-choices","confusion","decisions-in-life","frustration","job-and-work","living-life","mid-life-crisis","purpose","true-purpose"],"id":172164,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["attitude","career-choices","course-in-life","destiny","feelings","focus","interests","journey","path"],"id":186845,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career","career-advice","career-choices","career-paths","careers","family","life","life-advice","life-choices","life-paths","young-adults"],"id":207618,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"That’s not our role here, provide our parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings. Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people’s lives.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-advice","career-choices","career-paths","children","controlling-parents","family","family-pressure","free-choice","freedom","happiness","life","life-advice","life-choices","parents","passion"],"id":221845,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}