[durnygbur]

If by careers you mean simply making a living... there are very few truly success stories. If your friends were successful in the privatization during the 90s, or in public sector, or fossil fuel related... that's why the rest of the society had to "whore" themselves abroad. Let me guess what they do at most - outsourcing for German of American corporations, maybe some software for gambling?

[grugagag]

‘Whore themselves’ as in getting jobs abroad? If that’s what you mean then I stand by my comment, plenty of capable people had success in the sense of achieving a more or less decent lifestyle. Some of them got rich too but those are the outliers and not who I had in mind.

[durnygbur]

as in "demeaning work"