LOVE or CAREER? Which will you PICK?

Philippines
February 26, 2010 7:02am CST
If the love is forcing the career down and makes life so miserable, then that not really love. The love is not real. And if the career is keeping you from your love, and fear to lose a job, and have lot of overtime, its time to change career. But How will balance them??
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28 responses
@Mike4me (567)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
You should not be having these questions if you really know what true love is. True love is understanding and caring and it conquers everything. If a person truly loves you, then he/she will understand that you need to work for a living, and being the one in a good career, you should also do your best to give enough time for you love and not work all the time.
@Mike4me (567)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
LOL, I totally forgot about your question. I chose love over career. Because love is the one that makes me happy.
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Yah, I agree with you. True love is understanding and caring and it cogquers everything. But we need also patience and mostly acceptance.
• India
28 Feb 10
I think true love will wait for career and will not force for anything. I can have that much trust on my love. And as you rightly said thats not real love if forcing career down. I do not expect that love and never wish to be part of this scenario. Love yourself :)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
we need to love and respect ourself first. Before we love others.
• China
26 Feb 10
We can't live without career,and we can't be happy without love.So for me,I think career is more important to the people without lover.Of course,it's ashamed to abandon your love for career.
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Others says career knock once opportunity. Sometimes we need to grab them or else we will regred it.
• India
26 Feb 10
love is just nothing other a entertainment package, always be serious about our career, because if you have a good career, your love comes in your hands, or other loves come, and different types of love will com again in your life, sometimes do everything without doing anything creates lots of problems, leave everything, focus should on career not in love
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
If we are very young. I guess career is the best choice. Since we have ambition, and qualification. we often want to be successful and want to earn a lot of money and get promotion first.
• India
26 Feb 10
it will the most difficult situation in the life since bothb are important . for me both are important . but if i am in a situation that i will get some other jnob i wil surely leave that job for my love because we may get other job but love once its gone its all over and it cant be brought back . but i dont such a situation will come because in most times such situations wont come .
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
That why love is the most powerful in this world. without love there is nothing.
• India
26 Feb 10
If i have to choose one then i will choose both because with out love my career is nothing and without career my love is useless so i will choose both.
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
Choosing both, need to find a work life balance that allows us to experience the joys of love and maintaining a successful career, from this we can find happy and rewarding life. Family can help us to celebrate every success of our achivement in out career,and give us more confidence to face failures.
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
I believe if one troubles one, we need to sacrifice one. We need to give it up. Weigh what is important, is your family important or your career. They said opportunity knocks only once. If the career is already in front of you and you already found your love, explains to your love that this career is you been wishing for long time ago. If your love really loves you he or she will give way, not to give you up, but to wait for the right time that you are ready for love. If you are ready for love, you still have a career but lessen the over time , the stress, the bringing home the problems at work. I believe people can do it but he or she can’t give everything to one part, there is always a shortcoming on different area but a person can really have a career and love, but one is only successful.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
2 Mar 10
I have been in love and my experience says that one should always pick career in their life. If you are 200% sure that the person with whom you are in love is the right person then only you can go with her because the opportunities won't knock the door more than once and if you miss them, you are gone and over. I have missed a chance thinking that I was in love with a right girl but it was not the case and I have lost 2 years of my life without doing anything. Now, I have to start from the scratch once again!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
11 May 10
I made this choice myself eight years ago when I learned that I was pregnant with my daughter. The choice for me was easy to make because though I had always dreamt of being a doctor, I also knew that I wanted to have a family and a good husband. When the man that would eventully be my husband came into my life, I knew that anything else that I had once wanted in my life didn't really matter anymore. Here we are eight years later and I couldn't imagine my life to be any different than the life that I have today.
• Bangladesh
30 Mar 10
Hey friend, As a careful person, I'm very choosy about my partner and career. I'll never choose a career that will conflict with my love. My career will be very simple and honest so that it can't interfere in my love affair. And I'll love such a woman who'll never put an objection about my honest career. Have a wonderful day.
@happy2512 (1266)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
I will pick Career before Love for I have to be sure that I am financially stable so that i will be able to finance my needs, save for my emergency purposes & have a financial stability for the sake of myself & my future family. Love for me will come at the right time & right reason if I am not meant to be with someone then be it than being with someone & have nothing to use in case I am in need.
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
You have a point. Now a days many people focus on career first and family later. May be the reason for this is that while we are young, we have a lot time and energy to fullfill and concentrate ourself to a career.
@fsll518 (304)
• China
26 Feb 10
if 2 people really love each other, they should communicate about career and find a solution that good for both... there can be controdiction, but love conquers all :D
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
If the 2 person loves each other. They need to have these factors patient, courage, understanding and also acceptance to one another.
@siliguri (4241)
• India
26 Feb 10
I will choose my career rather then love...Because going with career makes life more enjoyable and the love will also come...but going with love life become miserable after few months..First stand u in a good height and then go with this thing...
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
While having a great career is also very important to happiness, the career without the relationship often leaves one feeling like something is missing from life. Work can do so much of the needed.
@Garage (44)
• Bangladesh
26 Feb 10
Yeah I have to agree with you. Love is never related to the career if love hammer career it can't be love. I think Career first because Love will run away through the window when I have no meal and my pocket become empty. So,I think if we can love build better career then it would be the true love.
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Having career first really gives us a sense of accomplishment and self worth. Aside of handling responsibility like paying bills. Elevating their career to a level of great important int their lives.
@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
1 Mar 10
It is a grave misconception to choose between the two, my dear. never, never choose! because one cannot do without the other one. If you choose your career first then you will end up miserable because you will loose the heart to love, and if you choose only to love then you will also end up miserable because you won't have a career. How to balance? time management, my friend. learn the art of managing your time for your career or job and for your personal life, including love. to do this, is to love yourself first before you can love another. If in any case that yout lover does not understand your professional life and tried to coerce you to choose then he is not the kind of guy you would want to be with, do you? But you should not go over work yourself to the point of sacrificing your lovelife. you make both ends meet.
@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
28 Feb 10
It is really difficult to balance love and career, especially when one is just embarking on a career. So I do suggest focus on one first before the other. Which first? It all depends on what one wants. Last time, I pick career over love. Then I realised that career is not everything. Now, I choose family over career.
• Amman, Jordan
28 Feb 10
the money is not every thing if you can keep your love you must do the best. in fact the love not only to person, but there is power love we can leave alot of things to save
@freymind (1351)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
I'll try to balance both of them. Its not because I will chose any of the above means I love it more than the other. It could be because you need the job more than your lover or vice versa. Its just a matter of juggling through both of them. But there's an old saying you cannot have the best of both worlds... Still if you are persistent to have both of them work out then you are in the right path... It only won't work if you don't try... So I won't pick any... I'll just try and try to have them both and be happy...
@Raniaa (66)
28 Feb 10
not too, love indeed can change things but not all of the negative sometimes turn our love into someone who is active and the spirit in all things.
@keisey (181)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
your statement is correct but my answer to the question is this. I would definitely choose love because the reason I look for a career is to help support my love ones. I actually have an experience regarding this because right now, I can choose to have a better career but because my family needs me more at home, i have to give that up. Nevertheless, I still find a way to give myself personal fulfillment in terms of career. I do not stay at home as a plain housewife, I continuously search for job online, that is the compromise I made between love and career.