Low-paying dream job vs. high-paying boring job

[Conserative Morality]

Low-paying dream job, in an instant. No contest.

[Nachtmysticum]

Whichever one is more stable.

[United Provinces of Atlantica]

It depends on how boring the high-paying job is. If it's a okay job, then I would take it, as then I could afford my dream of moving to Europe. However, if it's a job I hate, I probably would not take it. However, faced with the scenario, what I would do is take the boring job, work for a few years, then move to Europe and take the dream job. Luckily, however, my dream job has a nice salary (about 100k a year), so this dilemma wouldn't be a problem.

[Mushet]

$30,000 a year by myself? That's more than twice what my parents used to make, I don't really see it as bad....

So I guess I'll go for 30,000 with the dream job and a future wife can get some work too if we need it, whatever. Besides in my dream job I'll be doing some good.

[Greed and Death]

I'd rather take home more money, to be honest.

60,000 is a lot of money that I can use to do things I love on my free time. Any minor loss of enjoyment at work due to boredom is worth it, in my opinion.

There was a study that said in the US the amount of money after which there is no improvement of happiness was about 75,000.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/1 ... 92194.html

Some states required more others required less.

[Mefpan]

Well, I'd pick the job the doing of which I hate less.

I do not believe I would be doing anyone, myself included, any favor by picking a job that has me burned out and perpetually pissed at everything including the neighbor's children for not knowing what 'work' is and daring to not work their asses off in an environment they loathe..

That and I'm a low-maintenance person. The hell am I supposed to spend it on? I don't consume alcohol and I don't smoke. That's two major money wasters off the list right away.

[Nazi Flower Power]

A recent study I saw, said that "64% of Millennials would rather make $40,000/year at a job they love than $100,000/year at a job they think is boring."

So, would you rather have a low-paying job that you love, or a high-paying job that's boring?

- Let's assume that both jobs would be the same amount of work and difficulty.
- Let's say that the salary of the dream job is $30,000, and the salary of the boring job is $250,000. You only have to support yourself, so ignore everything about supporting a family or extended family.
- Your salary will be set at this for life, but it'll be inflation-adjusted: you'll never move up the payscale, but you'll maintain your purchasing power
- Would you rather have the low-paying dream job, or the high paying dream job? How much would the salary have to be to convince you to take the boring job?
- Is money or enjoyment(a dream job) at your job more important?

If I was choosing between $30,000 a year and $250,000 a year, I'd probably choose the high-paying boring job. $250k isn't exactly living a super-amazing lifestyle, but it'd be decent, so $500,000 would make me definitely take the boring job. I think that while being able to have my dream job would be pretty great, I would need to be able to have a decent standard of living. I don't know if I would want to live on $30,000 a year...for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, while only being able to afford the basics. With $500,000 a year, it'd afford a really decent lifestyle(and my life outside of work would be less boring), and I'd easily be able to save a lot of it, so I could stop working at the boring job a lot earlier than normal retirement age.

$30,000 for one person is not living paycheck to paycheck. Why do you have such distorted ideas of what it takes for a person to support themselves? I've noticed this in other threads too. $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment (no roommates) in Boston, even though Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US.

I'd rather make $30,000 at a job I liked than $250,000 at a job that sucked. It's not even a hard decision. Cos like I said, $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment.

[Joan Rangers]

Ill take the high-paying job for 10 or 15 years then take the low paying one when I am financially secure.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

A recent study I saw, said that "64% of Millennials would rather make $40,000/year at a job they love than $100,000/year at a job they think is boring."

So, would you rather have a low-paying job that you love, or a high-paying job that's boring?

- Let's assume that both jobs would be the same amount of work and difficulty.
- Let's say that the salary of the dream job is $30,000, and the salary of the boring job is $250,000. You only have to support yourself, so ignore everything about supporting a family or extended family.
- Your salary will be set at this for life, but it'll be inflation-adjusted: you'll never move up the payscale, but you'll maintain your purchasing power
- Would you rather have the low-paying dream job, or the high paying dream job? How much would the salary have to be to convince you to take the boring job?
- Is money or enjoyment(a dream job) at your job more important?

If I was choosing between $30,000 a year and $250,000 a year, I'd probably choose the high-paying boring job. $250k isn't exactly living a super-amazing lifestyle, but it'd be decent, so $500,000 would make me definitely take the boring job. I think that while being able to have my dream job would be pretty great, I would need to be able to have a decent standard of living. I don't know if I would want to live on $30,000 a year...for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, while only being able to afford the basics. With $500,000 a year, it'd afford a really decent lifestyle(and my life outside of work would be less boring), and I'd easily be able to save a lot of it, so I could stop working at the boring job a lot earlier than normal retirement age.

$30,000 for one person is not living paycheck to paycheck. Why do you have such distorted ideas of what it takes for a person to support themselves? I've noticed this in other threads too. $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment (no roommates) in Boston, even though Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US.

I'd rather make $30,000 at a job I liked than $250,000 at a job that sucked. It's not even a hard decision. Cos like I said, $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment.

30,000 is more than enough to support oneself plus a tiny bit of luxuries where I live.

Last job I was in they paid me 22,000 for the first year or so, before taxes. So 30,000 dollars assuming these are post-tax are pretty comfortable living.

[Greater Weselton]

I would rather have my dream job.

[Stagnant Axon Terminal]

*ahem*

Money money money

[Keyboard Warriors]

A recent study I saw, said that "64% of Millennials would rather make $40,000/year at a job they love than $100,000/year at a job they think is boring."

So, would you rather have a low-paying job that you love, or a high-paying job that's boring?

- Let's assume that both jobs would be the same amount of work and difficulty.
- Let's say that the salary of the dream job is $30,000, and the salary of the boring job is $250,000. You only have to support yourself, so ignore everything about supporting a family or extended family.
- Your salary will be set at this for life, but it'll be inflation-adjusted: you'll never move up the payscale, but you'll maintain your purchasing power
- Would you rather have the low-paying dream job, or the high paying dream job? How much would the salary have to be to convince you to take the boring job?
- Is money or enjoyment(a dream job) at your job more important?

If I was choosing between $30,000 a year and $250,000 a year, I'd probably choose the high-paying boring job. $250k isn't exactly living a super-amazing lifestyle, but it'd be decent, so $500,000 would make me definitely take the boring job. I think that while being able to have my dream job would be pretty great, I would need to be able to have a decent standard of living. I don't know if I would want to live on $30,000 a year...for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, while only being able to afford the basics. With $500,000 a year, it'd afford a really decent lifestyle(and my life outside of work would be less boring), and I'd easily be able to save a lot of it, so I could stop working at the boring job a lot earlier than normal retirement age.

$30,000 for one person is not living paycheck to paycheck. Why do you have such distorted ideas of what it takes for a person to support themselves? I've noticed this in other threads too. $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment (no roommates) in Boston, even though Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US.

I'd rather make $30,000 at a job I liked than $250,000 at a job that sucked. It's not even a hard decision. Cos like I said, $30,000 is enough to have your own apartment.

What makes you think he lives in Boston? Or the US? $30,000 where I live is little more than nothing. It's less than half of the median wage and the average rental price would consume more than half of your salary alone.

[Natapoc]

The posters in this tread cause me much sadness. It's hard to believe that anyone would truly prefer a high paying boring job over a low paying dream job. All I can say is with an attitude like that, it's very very unlikely that you will ever get(or keep) a high paying job of any kind.

I'd take a low paying meaningful job over endless hours of boredom any day.

As long as you have enough money to live on what's the point in more?

[Norstal]

A recent study I saw, said that "64% of Millennials would rather make $40,000/year at a job they love than $100,000/year at a job they think is boring."

So, would you rather have a low-paying job that you love, or a high-paying job that's boring?

- Let's assume that both jobs would be the same amount of work and difficulty.
- Let's say that the salary of the dream job is $30,000, and the salary of the boring job is $250,000. You only have to support yourself, so ignore everything about supporting a family or extended family.
- Your salary will be set at this for life, but it'll be inflation-adjusted: you'll never move up the payscale, but you'll maintain your purchasing power
- Would you rather have the low-paying dream job, or the high paying dream job? How much would the salary have to be to convince you to take the boring job?
- Is money or enjoyment(a dream job) at your job more important?

If I was choosing between $30,000 a year and $250,000 a year, I'd probably choose the high-paying boring job. $250k isn't exactly living a super-amazing lifestyle, but it'd be decent, so $500,000 would make me definitely take the boring job. I think that while being able to have my dream job would be pretty great, I would need to be able to have a decent standard of living. I don't know if I would want to live on $30,000 a year...for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, while only being able to afford the basics. With $500,000 a year, it'd afford a really decent lifestyle(and my life outside of work would be less boring), and I'd easily be able to save a lot of it, so I could stop working at the boring job a lot earlier than normal retirement age.

I can't live with 30k here in LA. Besides that, my ambition costs a great amount of money, so I'll take the high-paying job.

[Natapoc]

A recent study I saw, said that "64% of Millennials would rather make $40,000/year at a job they love than $100,000/year at a job they think is boring."

So, would you rather have a low-paying job that you love, or a high-paying job that's boring?

- Let's assume that both jobs would be the same amount of work and difficulty.
- Let's say that the salary of the dream job is $30,000, and the salary of the boring job is $250,000. You only have to support yourself, so ignore everything about supporting a family or extended family.
- Your salary will be set at this for life, but it'll be inflation-adjusted: you'll never move up the payscale, but you'll maintain your purchasing power
- Would you rather have the low-paying dream job, or the high paying dream job? How much would the salary have to be to convince you to take the boring job?
- Is money or enjoyment(a dream job) at your job more important?

If I was choosing between $30,000 a year and $250,000 a year, I'd probably choose the high-paying boring job. $250k isn't exactly living a super-amazing lifestyle, but it'd be decent, so $500,000 would make me definitely take the boring job. I think that while being able to have my dream job would be pretty great, I would need to be able to have a decent standard of living. I don't know if I would want to live on $30,000 a year...for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to have to live paycheck-to-paycheck, while only being able to afford the basics. With $500,000 a year, it'd afford a really decent lifestyle(and my life outside of work would be less boring), and I'd easily be able to save a lot of it, so I could stop working at the boring job a lot earlier than normal retirement age.

I can't live with 30k here in LA. Besides that, my ambition costs a great amount of money, so I'll take the high-paying job.

What is your ambition?

[Conserative Morality]

The posters in this tread cause me much sadness. It's hard to believe that anyone would truly prefer a high paying boring job over a low paying dream job. All I can say is with an attitude like that, it's very very unlikely that you will ever get(or keep) a high paying job of any kind.

I'd take a low paying meaningful job over endless hours of boredom any day.

As long as you have enough money to live on what's the point in more?

Holy hell. We agree on something.

[Keyboard Warriors]

It's hard to believe that anyone would truly prefer a high paying boring job over a low paying dream job.

There are 168 hours in a week and the vast majority of people in this thread will only have to work for 40 of them. I think it's perfectly understandable why people would choose a lifestyle over a job.

[Natapoc]

It's hard to believe that anyone would truly prefer a high paying boring job over a low paying dream job.

There are 168 hours in a week and the vast majority of people in this thread will only have to work for 40 of them. I think it's perfectly understandable why people would choose a lifestyle over a job.

In other words, the majority of people in this thread have never worked

[Keyboard Warriors]

There are 168 hours in a week and the vast majority of people in this thread will only have to work for 40 of them. I think it's perfectly understandable why people would choose a lifestyle over a job.

In other words, the majority of people in this thread have never worked

Based on the average age of the forum, probably not.

[Rabotnikisoyedinennyye]

I'd rather have a high-paying job so I could afford to have fun outside of work.

[Conserative Morality]

There are 168 hours in a week and the vast majority of people in this thread will only have to work for 40 of them. I think it's perfectly understandable why people would choose a lifestyle over a job.

Another 56 of those will be spent sleeping. About seven hours in transit. 55 hours are left. The difference between working a job you love and a job that bores you to tears is nearly doubling the amount of time you spend miserable.

[Norstal]

I can't live with 30k here in LA. Besides that, my ambition costs a great amount of money, so I'll take the high-paying job.

What is your ambition?

Producing at least one episode of an animated series based on something that I've been working on. I'd be just the writer, so as you can see, it would take a lot of money just to get other people working on it.

I guess I'd settle on just being able to publish at least one book, but that's not really fulfilling.

[Conserative Morality]

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Producing at least one episode of an animated series based on something that I've been working on. I'd be just the writer, so as you can see, it would take a lot of money just to get other people working on it.

I guess I'd settle on just being able to publish at least one book, but that's not really fulfilling.

Wouldn't your dream job be writing for the series, then?

[Senyosu]

Dream job. I am more than capable to manage my finances in a tight budget, so dream job it is.

[Keyboard Warriors]

There are 168 hours in a week and the vast majority of people in this thread will only have to work for 40 of them. I think it's perfectly understandable why people would choose a lifestyle over a job.

Another 56 of those will be spent sleeping. About seven hours in transit. 55 hours are left. The difference between working a job you love and a job that bores you to tears is nearly doubling the amount of time you spend miserable.

Being generous and taking out 15 hours per week for eating, showering and other chores leaves 40 hours of leisure in which case there is no difference in the time you spend "miserable".