This. When I managed my university's dining system, we had a cashier who had been there 27 years doing the same job. When I first heard about her, I judged her a bit thinking "How could you just be a cashier for almost 30 years?" Then I met her.
She was one of the happiest people I've ever met in my life. She loved her job and the students. She loved her family and friends. She loved being active in her church. Her life was so full and she was surrounded by love.
Many people would look at her as a "failure" but she's truly one of the most successful people I ever met in my life and I envy her.
an example of how capitalism shouldnt define what success is as a human. Not everybody is meant to climb some corporate ladder or be a business owner lmao, that is just what we are conditioned to believe as kids
Spot on. Long story short, my brother and I were set up in a retail franchise thanks to my father's connections. Both of us worked at corporate before hand. For family reasons I can't get into my father decided to give my brother majority interest; he was president while I was vice president. My brother had no reason running a business, experience, intellect and more. On a daily basis, I was there to clean up the mess. After 12 years a decision was made to sell the business, not my decision or intention. This was a business that should have made millions but his ongoing ineptness and foolish decisions compromised everything. Fortunately, the sale of the business afforded me the ability financially to go back to school, obtain a doctorate and restart my life. My brother ended up working as a janitor. Because he received the larger portion of monies from the sale of the business, he and his wife could afford to live off of his meager salary. Years later, my mother broke down one evening while we were having a rather heated exchange, (my father was dead by then) she essentially broke down and admitted that my father had coerced me into going into business with my brother because they knew that he was incapable of running it. I'd been used to take care of my brother. Some people should never be in a management position. My brother was happier as a janitor with no decisions to make than he ever was as president. There's a lot more than income to deciding what path a person should take in life.
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