I'd choose in a heartbeat: Love. Love. Love. Love.

Love is the most important thing in the world, and no career should ever get in the way of that. Some people may scoff at that idea, but to me those same people need to check their life priorities. We only get one go in the wheel of life, so I can't imagine ever putting career above love.

It's worth the sun and the moon and the stars.

But damn, if I'm going to compromise my career, it'd better be the real thing.

That all depends on whether or not it is TRUE love, and I mean the sort of love that feels like it opens your eyes in the morning, the kind of love you can't breathe without. Some people confuse love and lust. If you can close your eyes and imagine spending every waking moment with the one you are with, then you are in love. Giving up a career, can be hard. But it is something that can be replaced or lost, where as TRUE love is hard to find, and once you find it you should NEVER let it go. Myself personally, I would grab the hand of the one I love and walk away from the world if I had to, because even if we are poor and homeless, I know that he will always be by my side.

OF course I would choose love for the only reason why I am working is for my family, well for me my family is my most important treasure and priority above all. And love is the greatest emotion you would ever feel

I experienced having to choose between career over love and oh boy! It was such a difficult thing for me to decide. It feels like being torn into two pieces. I just started my career as a Physical Therapist working abroad and my boyfriend was left in my native country. We were very close so the separation was very painful for both of us. I have to from the different culture, workplace, and environment. But I was lucky because the people welcomed me warmly, I made friends but still there is an emptiness that I felt when I am alone. I tried to divert my attention into visiting different places just to forget my homesickness, I also bought things which I thought would make me happy but still the loneliness kept on nagging me. I learned a very important lesson in my life then, that happiness cannot be bought by money. The only thing that was holding me back was the convenience I felt. I have my own apartment, a car, and a well-paying job but the problem is I am not happy.

So, I decided to quit my job and went back home much to the dismay of my family and friends. But I am just lucky for they learn to accept my decision and was happy for me. I married my boyfriend and became a full time mom. We have been married for 11 years and was blessed with two doting daughters age 10 and 6. I remember one time I felt depressed because I was thinking of my colleagues who stayed and worked abroad have their career in full swing and have a higher position, etc. But a call from a good friend of mine made me think differently since then. She and her boyfriend, they are both PTs who stayed there and work are having a difficult marriage. They eventually divorced, she went into a major depression, committed suicide but I'm glad it failed.

I was confused and I was asking her what went wrong? You have a beautiful house, a career, a son, have your own car, so what was missing? And she told me there are many factors. One is that they were too busy working and they forgot to nurture their relationship. It was too late when one day they realize that they are now strangers. They were too busy with their career that they were not able to bond and spend enough time with each other.

Only then it struck me that the choice I made was the right choice for me. For I am happy with my life now. My daughters have grown up, and I am presently working as a teacher in a local school. The knowledge I learned was not a waste for I was able to share my knowledge and skills to my Caregiving students.

One day we were driving out and I saw this huge billboard, one thing caught my attention. There was a saying that goes: "Success at work cannot compensate for failure at home." And I thought that sort of a confirmation and I am glad that now I know where my happiness lies. My family is my never ending source of joy, they are a gift from God.

There's no need for me to think about it: I would choose love. Cemeteries are full of indispensable employees and managers - except their families, who even does care about them?

So, I would never lose any of my beloved ones for a job.

Careers come and careers go. A teacher in high school once speculated that we would all have seven careers in the course of our lives. But love, the real thing, is worth hanging on to, worth fighting for, worth changing careers for. It's not that there might only be one person, one opportunity ever in life for love, but when you know, with all your heart and mind, that you have love, the rest - career, location, family - will somehow fall into place.