Career or Love – You can’t have both

From a 1953 edition of The Girl Friend comes a test for women who need to choose between pursuing a “career” (which probably meant being a secretary) and “love” (meaning a boring life as a housewife).

career or loveInteresting that you couldn’t have both. Unless you were a man, of course.

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About Andreas Moser

I am a lawyer in Germany, with a focus on international family law, migration and citizenship law, as well as constitutional law. My other interests include long walks, train rides, hitchhiking, history, and writing stories.
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8 Responses to Career or Love – You can’t have both

  1. Renata Strzok's avatar mulan92 says:

    Love equals cooking. ;D

  2. Yikes, I wonder who made up those innuendo loaded questions!

  3. Miriam's avatar Miriam says:

    How times have changed!

  4. sbkurz's avatar sbkurz says:

    YES to 7!!! :-)

  5. Interestingly such quizzes always are yes/no binaries. No “”maybe” or “none of the above”.

    • Good point!
      That’s why I have never completed the Jung/Briggs Myers test because I often want to explain “well, that depends…” for which the test doesn’t leave any room.

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