Ok so not on a super ambitious career path doesn’t really match with “such a hard worker”. As someone who is 27 I’ll say this. I loved a man. Loved. We dated for 8 years. As time went on the vision for our futures became different. I wanted much more than he did in terms of a house, yearly trips, nice backyard, etc. I still love him but he isn’t my life partner. He was ok with living in the mountains in a tiny house and his career path reflected that. No shade. Just not my style.
i think the problem is that his work doesn’t sound very impressive to most people and he’s pretty comfortable with where he is in life so no big goals or ambitions necessarily. hard working comes in with the fact that he does pour his heart and soul into his work and he LOVES his job. i have a lot bigger goals for myself but my dream career isn’t going to make much money or anything, in fact he’ll probably be making more than me at his “unimpressive” job if we go for the long run with this.