What are the standard of success in your country/culture?

[otomatoe]

Where I come from, someone can be considered success when he/she works in a multinational company and attain a top-managerial position in the company. That's the standard of success where I live and been like that for a long, long time BUT it's different from my ideals.

I'm pursuing my own goal to be an artpreneur and that's why society thinks I'm a kind of failure, even my own family of course. But who cares, right? We strive, do whatever we need to achieve our dreams and the value of it can't be measured by others let alone social standard.

How is it in your shoes?

 

[Tessie]

I feel as though America has some of the most intelligent, dedicated, and studious people pursuing fields that require high level of education and research, while also having some of the most laziest, uneducated, unmotivated living off social security and then those in between.
The upper/middle/lower class are all accepted here in American culture. You pursue as much as you wish to.
In other countries its considered shameful to not work, or not study hard, or have a low income (according to my friend who is Korean).

In my own family culture (I'm half peruvian/russian) there is no areas of success/failure...it seems my family loves and accepts whatever we choose. They were never hard on us.

 

[carp]

success in england?

someone who does well in gcses, picks academic a levels and succeeds at them in college, goes to university to study something academic (such as maths or business management) and then gets a boring office job and wears a suit and works in london for 72k a year

i'm gonna be an art teacher though (":

 

[Cheshire]

Where I come from, it literally doesn’t matter what you do - as long as you make a lot of money doing it (and drive a big car to show for it). So success is not only learning a lot and working hard until you are at the very top of the career ladder, but also, to a worryingly large and steadily increasing amount of people, cheating the system and scamming others. It’s sad either way. What ever happened to defining success as attaining personal happiness and being content with your life?

 

[mitfy]

money