Success vs Failure

What is Success?
Does it mean to sacrifice everything for a career? Having a billion dollar bank account?
Where does our contemporary notion of Success come from?
Being successful is something you hear a lot in movies and basically from the mouth of anyone that doesn't like you, for some reason, at some point in life. But success is always identified with being this hotshot business dealer, a self-employed real estate broker, a high in the food-chain actor, musician or a PR agent. All top-notch professions. You never see or hear the word success associated with, let's say, a carpenter, a kindergarden teacher or a restaurant waiter. And why ? Because behind this notion of success there is also prejudice. Only certain jobs represent a certain status quo and God forbid if you ever lose your job. If, by any chance, you have to work in a coffee shop or be a clerk in a supermarket, to make ends meet, no one will again see you as a potential candidate for a position like you had before. They will just see someone who failed. But what is a failure? I don't know why, when thinking about this issue I always go back to American Beauty. I think it sums it up. On the outside perfect but broken on the inside. A brilliant movie that represents what is wrong with these notions. To succeed or to fail is very subjective. And moreover when we place their entire meaning in a career. To succeed is also to love and we tend to forget it... Unfortunately.