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Does anyone else feel a lot of pressure to have a successful, high-powered career as a Jewish person?

I’m 26 and trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. My dad and two uncles are lawyers, my third uncle was a surgeon before retiring. Of course, this benefited me because my parents paid for my college and I don’t have student loans. But I have been completely financially independent from my parents since graduating college. I feel pressure to make something of myself and go into a high paying field, but I’ve never had an interest in law or medicine or finance, and it feels too late to become a software engineer. I’m a content writer at a communications agency, which pays the bills but it’s obviously not a super lucrative industry compared to these other fields. I don’t think I’ll ever have as much money as my parents and their siblings, which I’m ok with, but it feels like I’m letting my family down in some way. It feels like everywhere I look Jewish people are at the top of their fields and I’m worried I won’t do anything with my life.

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