do you think you have worked as hard as your parents or elders did in education or to establish yourself?
I dont think I worked as hard during college, I had more free time than my dad ever did, but he still has better grades etc.
I work pretty hard now, long hours, lots of deliverables so I dont have a gauge to figure out if I am working harder than my parents generation did. Since my dad does not seem fazed by the type of crazy hours I have to work sometimes, I know that he does a minimum of 50 hours a week now but I wonder how his working hours were when he was 6 years out of uni. I guess I will ask him when i chat with him.
big differences between life back then and now. Life was a lot simpler, we had simpler and smaller needs. Compare this to our kids, they cant help it, their lives are a lot more complicated. I think its way more harder to raise kids now, especially in the US, where information is so readily available that you cannot ignore your children unlike in PAK where maasis and Aaya's do much work in raising the kids.
Sorry if I went off on a tangent. I am a little bummed because my kid very politely asked me not to give him a kissey(hug) in front of his friends at school - he's barely 6
I work hard, perhaps not as hard as my parents. My parents taught the value of a good education and hard work at any early age, eventhough Allah provided us with more than enough. One of the reasons I feel motivated to work hard both during the college days and in the workplace, was to make sure that I had some accomplishments that I can be proud of, rather than coasting through life.
My parents are workaholic types who still bring their work to the dinner table, and I am very much impressed by their strong work ethic.
I don't work (at job) even 1/20th of what my father did. He was a chem engineer and worked in chem industries. However, I make more in a month that he could in a year. But I think that I work harder at home (with kids and other chores) than he did. He pretty much left kids and home stuff for my mom to take care. He rarely helped us with our school work or took any interest in our sporting activities or any other interests. I guess it was a generational thing. Pretty much all my friends have similar setups at their homes.
That is awesome RF. I am also a very career and goal oriented person. Most has to do with the values of hard work and good education that I have been raised with. However, even when there are times when I don’t get any encouragement, I develop my own confidence. I create obstacles and challenges for myself and then try to overcome them. I thrive on this.
My belief is, if you can dream it, with a strong combo of brains, skill, and motivation, you can achieve it. Simple as apple pie.
his work ethic and discipline are amazing. and on top of that he is a laid back person in life. my dad is the best 
i don’t even have a work ethic 
i’m a loser and a bum 
