Its a pity some of the smug buggers here evidently never had to work for a sloppy outfit and clearly don't take the time to consider what life on the other side was like. How thoughtful of them.
NEO.Your rhetorical question cannot go unanswered. What right does anyone have to question one's "career path" in such a snide and critical manner when it was the circumstances around it and beyond your control or influence that were at fault? That's exceptionally unpleasant as well as irrational.