People from all sorts of colleges do all sorts of things. Maybe they don’t want to high powered top careers. Maybe they want a good work life balance.
We live in an affluent area. My kids had many friends who lived in huge houses and their parents drove nice cars and they went on nice trips. But then again they hardly saw their fathers. They’d always be at work or at something related to work. In some cases it was both parents. We had less money (believe me, we’re very comfortable and certainly not lacking), but we spent a lot of time together as a family. One of D’s friends says the most she remembers about her dad is hearing him coming home late at night and spending their entire vacation in Hawaii sitting at a table by the pool with his laptop and cell phone getting work done. That’s kind of sad…