But yes – it does go back to those priorities – there may be sacrifices, but the rewards are pretty amazing too – and for me, certainly far more long-lasting.

My belief is that some of this is taught at home, but of course that doesn’t account for the very real pressures kids feel when they attend college to be upwardly mobile and make the most money.

Even in the j-school at OU, where jobs were NOT well-paying, there was a competition of sorts to find the best paying.

Money has never been my primary motivator and I suppose I have that philosophy to thank for the meager contents of my checkbook.

You know – some of us are just blessed to always have felt that way about public service, always. I don’t know why I am one of those – it can cause a great amount of pain and conflict to argue for a life centered on that service. And definitely my drift over the last few years has been toward re-grounding myself in that kind of work. I felt that my work at Bellefaire embraced the nature of public interest law, with my social work background too, very well.

I’m going to have re-post some of what he writes. There ARE people who have made those choices, for life, and who come to it later or who fit it in with other private more corporate choices.

But that answer he repeats from new grads? OMG – that hasn’t changed in the 20 years since I came here for grad school. Chilling – utterly chilling and sad. Where is the failure – where are the pressure points to persuade?

Why the focus on the money, and not the good?

That is what angers and frightens me so much about the choices implicit in many GOP and conservative campaigns.

Thanks so much for that link. Wow – I have to ask my parents if they read it – I’m sure they did!