one friend after another land high­ranking，high­paying Wall Street jobs. As executives(高级管理人员) with banks____1____on their way to impressive careers.By society's____2____，they seem to have it made.

　　On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life.As they left student life behind, many had a____3____drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates，and____4____out of small apartments into high buildings.They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine____5____a college year's monthly rent.They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.

　　The thing is，a number of them have____6____that despite their success，they aren't happy.Some____7____of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight­hour workweeks devoted to tasks they____8____．Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and____9________10____to which they have so quickly become____11____．ng path，and____12____in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they____13____or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion：it's ____14____．They have loans(抵押贷款)to____15________16____in their lives，bu it's____17____to step off the track.

　　In a society that tends to____18____everything in terms of dollars and cents，we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our____19____in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs____20____in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore—and the very ones we need to consider most.

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