Is it better to enjoy your job

[Taggart]

I'm not making as much as I would like, but I don't mind going in day after day to work too much. Would you stay with a $40k job you enjoy, or a $100k job that is more stressful and you don't particularly like (the money IS good though).

 

[corpseofworms]

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Job enjoyment is how happy you are 8 hours a day. Salary is how happy you are the other 16. Therefore Salary=2(happiness).

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Job enjoyment. They can offer you all the money in the world, but it doesn't matter if you can't go home to spend it.
Tas.

 

[GhettoFob]

depends how much more money

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Depends where each leads in the future

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Depends where each leads in the future

I somewhat agree.

I would take a $40k job I enjoy over a $100k job that I hate (probably), *unless* chances were extremely high that I would be promoted / transferred to a job that I do enjoy, and the only way to do so was to keep the job I hated.

 

[jlee]

Enjoying the job, in my opinion, is more important...weekdays are longer than weekends.

Originally posted by: corpseofworms
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Job enjoyment is how happy you are 8 hours a day. Salary is how happy you are the other 16. Therefore Salary=2(happiness).

You never sleep? :Q

 

[dugweb]

Saying "job enjoyment" is my cop-out for not going into medical. (my dad nags and nags about money and it pisses me off, so i always tell him there are more important things than money)

 

[2cpuminimum]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
Enjoying the job, in my opinion, is more important...weekdays are longer than weekends.

Originally posted by: corpseofworms
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Job enjoyment is how happy you are 8 hours a day. Salary is how happy you are the other 16. Therefore Salary=2(happiness).

You never sleep? :Q

He needs a very expensive mattress in order to sleep.

 

[akubi]

money.

it's not a job unless you feel the daily grind.

 

[electricJ]

I think its really all about finding a happy medium... living comfortably with your income while at least enjoying what you do enough to not make your life miserable. There probably aren't many careers out there where you will always be happy anyways.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: akubi
money.

it's not a job unless you feel the daily grind.

I beg to differ.

 

[spidey07]

where's the "both" option?

 

[KokomoGSTmp]

Where's the "selling your soul for cash" option?

I know there are some people on Wall Street (and elsewhere) that make mondo dough but define @hole.

Hey, that rhymes, totally cheezy.

 

[sixone]

I left three jobs that paid very well but not enough to justify the stress or bad work atmosphere. Now I have a job that pays better, and while I don't enjoy every thing about it, I'm pretty satisfied. I wouldn't take a new job only because it pays more, unless I was convinced that I would get at least as much job satisfaction as I have now.

 

[BSEagle1]

"If you find something you're good at, and something you enjoy, you will succeed greatly...and you cannot ask for much more."
--My dad

I am inclined to agree with him

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: BSEagle1
"If you find something you're good at, and something you enjoy, you will succeed greatly...and you cannot ask for much more."
--My dad

I am inclined to agree with him

So am I.

 

[TallBill]

I dont enjoy my job or get paid well. However, it is fullfilling.