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What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Fissionami@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] 77slevin@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago

No matter how much you invest you're time and effort for your job: You are expendable, and the only people who will know you were absent from home because of work 20 years later, will be your kids.