Life is a bit like a computer game. If you complete all your main quests, and side quests, you are held with high esteem in the after realms.

Good and bad are extremely subjective. To some the mainstream good has evil elements. Is being a good capitalist a good life? Or is being a austere spiritualist a good life? It is morally ambigious.

Personally I think you can't go wrong with the traditional values, but I think personal growth is necessary, and with growth values change.

When you are young life seems easy, but as you get older perspectives change. Focussing on a career is good IMO, we don't have to discard our posessions and become a guru, it is a personal choice.

Professions exist in the after life - so one could say they are sacred.

In fact in pre-life planning one may choose many of the major points of life, career, family, disabilities and so on. They are all challenges we must face and how we meet those challenges is important.

Some people prefer a back seat, and meekily accept their problems but they can still be good people.

I guess for me goodness is honesty, kindness, generosity of spirit. But those values can shape many different types of people.