Is being overly ambitious about a career, good?
By keep_onwatch
@keep_onwatch (2680)
India
May 27, 2010 7:13am CST
Having a goal in life and achieving it would seem to be a proper thing in life. But, what if that goal can make your life miserable? What if it could collapse your family life? I have seen many people in my life, who were overly ambitious about a career and destroyed their family life in achieving it. People move to other countries for reaching their goals, they neglect their families and their needs. A father or a husband or a wife do not see their families as important as they view their careers. I agree, having a goal to be in a better financial situation and working to have a satisfying family life is a good thing. But, not to the extent of ruining a family. What do you think?
7 responses
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
27 May 10
Definitely not good! We need proper priorities in life or things will get all mixed up and we will have big regrets in the end. Family is much more important than a career, wealth, or success.
@sender621 (14889)
• United States
28 May 10
Ambition is a good quality. Just don't let it take over your life. Family priorities should come first. If your career is more important to you than loving relationships and family commitments, your life will suffer terribly. You need to have balance with career and family. Don't allow ambition to be your ruler.
@KarissaAngel (362)
• United States
27 May 10
As your responders stated about ambition is good, I agree. I am one of those that has too much ambition for my job and everything else is surrounded by it. I soon discovered that is not a good thing. LIFE itself and the family and friends in your life should be priority. All the ambition I put into my job only stressed me more, tired me out, and most of all just plain got me irritable at everyone including myself. I have lessened down the ambition and quite frankly, I think I am enjoying myself more.
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
28 May 10
Hi keep_onwatch, you started a good discussion. This is the present trend in the society. For the sake of career people are flying away to other countries leaving their loved one here. They are ruining their family for want of money / financial problems etc. Can't they get their jobs in their own country? they can, still they want to go. Working hard anywhere can be successful. Need not to be away from their family. If they are with the family all together can share love and happiness. If any problems come can discuss and try to solve the problems. Life is so short, we have to make it fulfill.
@prettygracey (60)
• Saudi Arabia
27 May 10
I think having ambition in life is a good thing to do, everyone has an ambition like a successful career. But then regarding the family, it depends upon the person, even he/she is successful you can he can able to manage a happy , close and together family. If the one is working in the other country there is also a way to be stay together.. The one that working abroad bring their family in where country he/she working... Here in the Philippines there's lot of people working abroad , but many of them stay happy and living together in the same country, without loosing their success..
@Beautyfactor (1510)
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27 May 10
Having ambitions and goal in life is a great thing. I wish I had more direction for the future but I never think that far ahead.
It seems that successful people have ruined relatioships along the way, wheather it be family life or a marriage, but these people are often more liable to take risks in my opinion. I don't believe that people who are full of ambition would damage their relatioships on purpose but perhaps they just see it as 'one of those things'.
