Building Successful Careers

When we were at college, money was the most important element of my life. We needed it to pay bills and buy things we liked.  Many of us worked many not so glamor jobs, exchanged time for money.  We learned tremendously from that life experience. We treasured money. After a few years of stable jobs, we earned more money. But money was never enough for us to feel secure.  We work more. We work day and night.   Some of us have to make appointments with our spouses just to spend some time alone.  We became smarter over time,  we now use money to buy time:  we pay for cooks, cleaning services, baby sitters; we pay drivers to drive our kids around, we get 1-1 private classes for our children at home. When we sit next to our children, we check our messages, reply to our boss’ emails at all hours.  One of my friend’s son one day yelled at her: “ You love your phone more than your love me!”  We are physically with our family but our minds dri...

I heard the term “location, location, location” for the very first time when I was hunting for my first house. No surprise at all, because I didn’t grow up in the United States and had no clue about how to select a house. What does this expression using three “locations” really mean? A curious person as I have always been, asked many realtors and got many interesting answers. Most of them told me that three repeating locations mean that location is very important. My interpretation from my house hunting experience is: 1) Location: which city you want to grow your family and what kind of life style it provides 2) Location: What street you want to live on, small court close to highway or close to school, what kind of convenience it provides to your daily life 3) Location: the orientation/direction of your house, facing east, south, floor plan, size of the lot, plus some other consideration depending on your culture and the comfort level it provides When I had these three locations in...