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Thank you for your contribution. I have been trying for some time in this thread to replace the term "career" with "professional or gainful employment". I don't know where the idea comes from that working men and women with small children automatically have a "career" or are "career women" or "career men".

A funny example from my industry colleagues (Commerzbank). They no longer give raises but titles. Every second clerk is then called "vice director" and "relationship manager". You get a stack of business cards, can hand them out at barbecues and to neighbors and show off. Internally, such promotions are called "titles without resources".

It depends on how you define career. If you generally mean professional advancement, quite a lot of people make a career. If career necessarily means managing personnel, there are fewer. If it means being able to act independently of instructions, then hardly anyone here has made a career.

For me personally, career means having as few supervisors as possible and being able to work relatively freely.

I have finished my studies as quickly as possible for this very reason and am now working primarily so that I am not dependent on my husband. I have just seen it again in my environment... Mom with 3 children, the youngest still under 3, at home for almost 10 years, separated from her husband, things are going very badly, he doesn’t even pay for the children let alone for her and she is now in a really bad position. You probably don’t want to experience that. Not even being able to get an apartment in such a situation because the ex doesn’t pay but also doesn’t want to give up the shared house, you can’t get an apartment without a job and with 3 children, etc., my personal nightmare. She can forget her planned studies now (by the way, she supported him for years with his studies alongside his full-time job). Of course, all this will be resolved in the coming months, but it has been dragging on for a while. Until a judge orders/seizes something, until things calm down again, until normality returns – finding a daycare place, settling in, the two older ones are still there, looking for a job, finding an apartment, etc. But again, everyone has to decide for themselves what to do – if she at least had a fixed part-time job, she could at least first look for an apartment with the children. For me, however, besides my own self-esteem and the pension issue, that is the most decisive point in favor of working.

Every second clerk is then called "vice director"

Please always say it in English, it sounds more important.

Facility Manager for example

A funny example from my industry colleagues (Commerzbank). Nowadays they no longer give salary raises but titles. Every second clerk is then called "vice director" and "relationship managers". You get a stack of business cards, can hand them out at barbecues and to neighbors and show off. Internally, such promotions are called "titles without resources"

Yes, that is funny. I also know department heads who have 1 (in words: one) employee over whom they are not even authorized to give instructions.

Yes, that is funny. I also know department heads who have 1 (in words: one) employee over whom they do not even have authority to issue instructions.

It is probably the same at Commerzbank.