Successful?

The question: How do you consider yourself successful in life/career?

Case 1:
Doing what you do, and trying to be the top of what you're doing, but it doesn't guarantee anything. With just enough money to survive your day to day life, with not much time for your friends and family, not even talking about raising one of your own. But hey, you're good at what you do, and you like it. Successful?

Case 2:
Doing what you don't really like, but you got the money to buy what you wanted, you got the time to be with the one you love. Raising a family and have good financial status to even send your kids to oversea. Successful?

I guess it all goes down to you and where you wanna go with your life. With the standard of living in Malaysia going up like nobody's business, its really hard if you're in Case 1. Of cos the dream of everyone will be doing what they like, and getting what they want. But how hard is that? Is time the factor in this case? You just have to persistantly persue what you like and in the end it'll all pay off? When is the time to say "That's it, I think I'm not going anywhere with this."?

I think another consideration in this is, how much do you care about how other people look at you. I guess everyone sees a successful person as an individual who are able to buy big cars and live in big houses. That's what I see also. A man able to drive a sports car, live in a big and nice house. Do you care about what he does for his living? Do you care about if he's happy with his current job? The thing is he's successful in life.

From there it kinda comes back to make you think that, is doing what you like really that important?

Do you consider yourself successful?

I'm just crapping here because today I'm having a shitty day...

Signing off,
Someone that's not being appreciated by the company.