Personally I don't think being diagnosed Borderline is a death sentence. I believe that with hard work in therapy a person with BPD can improve her/his live significantly and then choose a career that satifies personally and financially. There may be a change in the direction one chooses to go in a career but that doesn't mean one must live in poverty.
Carrie

<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft