My wife and I both make 6 figure incomes in corporate jobs, that back in the day would have been seen as the goal. But all our kids hear about our jobs is the complaining we do about all that stuff. My wife and I have talked about needing to be more positive in our conversations around careers, because I can definitely see our kids looking at it like “why the eff should I work towards that???”

Meanwhile when I was growing up my father was a firefighter, and mom was a teacher. My dad didn’t “love” his job, but I never heard him complain about it and he worked HARD. My mom loved her job as a teacher. Did a career change when I was young, went back to school for Education, and then worked 30 years as a teacher before retiring a few years back.