Perfection does not exist (or if so only fleetingly) and that in life we are called upon to make and accept compromises with a perceived ideal situation. ...I believe that in Chinese society, at least for the older Chinese, there would appear to be something of a dichotomy between western orientated jobs, which pay more and are in luxurious surroundings but are somewhat precarious, and the traditional Chinese safe haven of a job for life as a civil servant or in a university which are not desperately well paid and tend to be in surroundings which have seen better days...