This is something you work for all your life.

You are telling me to abandon everything I have worked for all my life.

He worked at the family farm for his entire life, having taken it over in 1907.

That's the kind of guy I've worked for all my life.

"Everything I worked for my whole life is gone, just destroyed!"

The face that now hardened at the thought of losing everything he had worked for all his life.

Turning your back on something you worked for your whole life.

There is no kind of convenient, "this really works for my life."

You ask me to throw over everything I have ever believed in and worked for all my adult life.

Lost everything that I had worked for my entire life!