Both, actually. I have done Master in Finance studies, but it's an executive programme so I was also able to work part-time at the Deutsche Börse (German Stock Exchange). I'm submitting my Master's Thesis next week and will graduate in October. Have never been to Bavaria (shame on me!), but Germany is indeed a very beautiful country, and Frankfurt has become my second home now.
I guess in Russia the whole culture and attitude is about sacrificing something. People just don't understand it when you try to live your life and be happy - they consider it selfish and pointless. Instead, they do what their parents, their government and their society expects from them: the majority marries by the age of 25, gets kids they are not ready for, feels unhappy, gets divorced, moms raise their kids alone 'cause Russian men avoid relationship and marriage with women who have kids, and these women blame their children for their unhappy destiny. Then children get older and the whole thing repeats. You are supposed to do everything to do you children and parents happy, but you also never miss an opportunity to remind them how much you have done and how grateful they should be. If you refuse to participate in this, people hate you - because somewhere deep inside they wish they had done the same, and this is why it is so hard to be a single (especially childless) woman in Russia.
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Date: 2013-08-20 11:20 pm (UTC)I guess in Russia the whole culture and attitude is about sacrificing something. People just don't understand it when you try to live your life and be happy - they consider it selfish and pointless. Instead, they do what their parents, their government and their society expects from them: the majority marries by the age of 25, gets kids they are not ready for, feels unhappy, gets divorced, moms raise their kids alone 'cause Russian men avoid relationship and marriage with women who have kids, and these women blame their children for their unhappy destiny. Then children get older and the whole thing repeats. You are supposed to do everything to do you children and parents happy, but you also never miss an opportunity to remind them how much you have done and how grateful they should be. If you refuse to participate in this, people hate you - because somewhere deep inside they wish they had done the same, and this is why it is so hard to be a single (especially childless) woman in Russia.