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Would you ever take on a certain career path (or job) simply based on the high income potential?
(without that career being your passion)
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November 05, 2009 03:40 PM
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I have taken many jobs for which I not only had no passion, but which I hated, because I needed to earn money to feed, clothe and house my family. In my family, that's how we were raised. We were told that only a very few lucky individuals ever got to work at a job that they liked. We were working because we liked to pay our bills, and buy food and clothing for our families, and if we didn't like our work, so what, nobody liked it, but the alternative was having hungry children in ragged clothes and perhaps becoming homeless. So we worked. And it wasn't so bad. Oh the work was hard, but the guys you worked with became lifelong friends and you had your family. It's just the way things were.
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November 05, 2009 03:41 PM
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Taking a career path based solely on compensation may be very tempting on the front end, especially if one is in a less than ideal financial condition at that moment, but in the long run it's unwise. Undertaking a career that one doesn't have a passion for will have its price further down the road. Burn out, boredom and even depression can set in.
Years dedicated to something you don't like doing will eventually deny you the possibility of obtaining success in that which you do enjoy. In the long run, you'll be more prone to make less money in your lifetime doing that which you dislike, than doing something you like, even if that something has a smaller financial reward at the beginning.
I could not see myself doing that.
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Years dedicated to something you don't like doing will eventually deny you the possibility of obtaining success in that which you do enjoy. In the long run, you'll be more prone to make less money in your lifetime doing that which you dislike, than doing something you like, even if that something has a smaller financial reward at the beginning.
I could not see myself doing that.
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November 06, 2009 03:33 AM
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There are a lot of "it depends" statements that go along with the answer.
First, it's clear that if I needed to support my family, I'd take any job I had to.
Second, if it's just a matter of having a more "comfortable" lifestyle and some luxuries, then it would really depend on how much I hated the job. Passionless is pretty okay with me. But I couldn't go to a job I HATED every day unless my family needed it to survive. I couldn't take the misery, and no amount of luxury could make that better.
But if we're just talking a job that isn't all that exciting and kind of mundane, for the right pay, you bet I'd do it! I'd scoop cat litter, pick up street litter, and copy the dictionary all day long if it paid $200,000+
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First, it's clear that if I needed to support my family, I'd take any job I had to.
Second, if it's just a matter of having a more "comfortable" lifestyle and some luxuries, then it would really depend on how much I hated the job. Passionless is pretty okay with me. But I couldn't go to a job I HATED every day unless my family needed it to survive. I couldn't take the misery, and no amount of luxury could make that better.
But if we're just talking a job that isn't all that exciting and kind of mundane, for the right pay, you bet I'd do it! I'd scoop cat litter, pick up street litter, and copy the dictionary all day long if it paid $200,000+
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November 06, 2009 06:22 AM
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As gno said, this is a really hard question to answer with a simple "yes" or "no". I would take almost any job at 10-20 times what I make right now, and I'd probably be happy to do it long term. I'm fairly convinced that money really could solve most issues I or anyone else would have with the job -- you just need to throw in enough of it. At a certain point, you will grow to love whatever that job is *because* that job is making you so much money. Very few people actually *love* being investment bankers, but at $1,000,000+ per year you just can't help but happily show up for work anyway.
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