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

[Vladislavija]

Corporate cubicle is my dream job.

*shudders*

Well, to each his own, I guess.

Speaking of which, what would your dream include?

[Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic]

I'd take the higher paying boring job. Let my family have a dream life while I work for it.

[Alexanda]

Although a £250,000 lifestyle isn't really a wealthy one, I would rather have a job that payed that rather than a low paying one.

[Neo Industrium]

I've actually been deciding this for quite a while since I had a choice between becoming a nurse that'll make about $80,000 (nurses are in super high demand in British Columbia), or go into environmental sciences with a focus in ecological restoration for about $45,000 when I started this university this year.

I chose environmental sciences because it's what my passion is. I grew up semi-poor, so I don't really care much about money. Sure, money is great, but it means nothing compared to how happy and fulfilled you are with your life. My life would be much more full doing something that I love, rather than something that I tolerate. Sure, nurses are great people, but I don't think that I would enjoy having the constant loom of death hanging over me while working at a hospital.

I'd prefer being outdoors, in my zone helping a cause that is much closer to my heart.

(((my two cents)))

[Mushet]

An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The tourist then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."

The tourist then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The tourist scoffed, " I can help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You could leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you could run your ever-expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"

The tourist replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then?" asked the Mexican.

The tourist laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

"Millions?...Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

Whats this obsession with retiring; its akin to being unemployed without money worries: ie boring as fuck. Instead of selling the company and retiring, the fisherman could appoint someone as president, COO and be silent CEO, getting healthy pay cheque, traveling the world for going to meetings and signing some papers.

Money, used effectively, can buy happiness that is in fact it's entire purpose. The problem is that if you spend the majority of your waking hours doing something that makes you miserable it doesn't really matter how much money you have, you aren't going to be happy. Money is NOT the end game it is a means to an end and if you can get to that end without much money you don't need much money.

A job, no matter how much you like it will never be as enjoyable as going to Bahamas or Himalayas twice a year in luxury airliner, and have a Ferrari waiting when you land because at end of the day it is still a job with set boundaries and objectives plus in healthy work life balance it is a minor part of your year. If you work standard hours with standard holidays you will work 1784 hours while having 2272 free hours not including the unpaid time off you can take when you have several hundred thousand pounds disposable income.

A dream job could encompass going to the Bahamas or Himalayas twice a year in a luxury airliner, and have a Ferrari waiting when you land, it's a dream job.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

A job, no matter how much you like it will never be as enjoyable as going to Bahamas or Himalayas twice a year in luxury airliner, and have a Ferrari waiting when you land because at end of the day it is still a job with set boundaries and objectives plus in healthy work life balance it is a minor part of your year. If you work standard hours with standard holidays you will work 1784 hours while having 2272 free hours not including the unpaid time off you can take when you have several hundred thousand pounds disposable income.

And then people wonder where did all that money they actually had go

[Salandriagado]

An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The tourist then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."

The tourist then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The tourist scoffed, " I can help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You could leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you could run your ever-expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"

The tourist replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then?" asked the Mexican.

The tourist laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

"Millions?...Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

Whats this obsession with retiring; its akin to being unemployed without money worries: ie boring as fuck. Instead of selling the company and retiring, the fisherman could appoint someone as president, COO and be silent CEO, getting healthy pay cheque, traveling the world for going to meetings and signing some papers.

Money, used effectively, can buy happiness that is in fact it's entire purpose. The problem is that if you spend the majority of your waking hours doing something that makes you miserable it doesn't really matter how much money you have, you aren't going to be happy. Money is NOT the end game it is a means to an end and if you can get to that end without much money you don't need much money.

A job, no matter how much you like it will never be as enjoyable as going to Bahamas or Himalayas twice a year in luxury airliner, and have a Ferrari waiting when you land because at end of the day it is still a job with set boundaries and objectives plus in healthy work life balance it is a minor part of your year. If you work standard hours with standard holidays you will work 1784 hours while having 2272 free hours not including the unpaid time off you can take when you have several hundred thousand pounds disposable income.

And as far as I'm concerned, zero of those things are anything like as enjoyable as going hiking in some lovely hills (cost: basically zero, yay for living there!). Honestly, I can't, off hand, think of anything that a better paying job would get me that I really want.

[Greed and Death]

This thread is proof that poor people choose to be poor.

Who knew so many had dream jobs at walmart.

greed and death: hipster-shitting on people who make a conscious choice not to make money but rather to help people with their problems since 2008.

The people at in retail help me find the stuff I want to buy.

Just like I help large banks side step regulations and raise more capital.

[Ethel mermania]

greed and death: hipster-shitting on people who make a conscious choice not to make money but rather to help people with their problems since 2008.

The people at in retail help me find the stuff I want to buy.

Just like I help large banks side step regulations and raise more capital.

pfft. they use lawyers from harvard for that

[Greed and Death]

The people at in retail help me find the stuff I want to buy.

Just like I help large banks side step regulations and raise more capital.

pfft. they use lawyers from harvard for that

Yes My coworkers from Harvard all look down on me, and act like I do not belong. But I was the only one of the lawyers who got invited to have brunch with the Line of business CEO this morning. (Along with some other Veterans).

[Othelos]

pfft. they use lawyers from harvard for that

Yes My coworkers from Harvard all look down on me, and act like I do not belong. But I was the only one of the lawyers who got invited to have brunch with the Line of business CEO this morning. (Along with some other Veterans).

harvard and the other ivy league schools are so overrated

[Greed and Death]

Yes My coworkers from Harvard all look down on me, and act like I do not belong. But I was the only one of the lawyers who got invited to have brunch with the Line of business CEO this morning. (Along with some other Veterans).

harvard and the other ivy league schools are so overrated

Unless you get extremely lucky going to a top 14 law school is the only way into the job I have now. Truth be told if I had law school to do all over again I would have turned down the scholarship and went to the top school my LSAT score could have gotten me into.

[Othelos]

harvard and the other ivy league schools are so overrated

Unless you get extremely lucky going to a top 14 law school is the only way into the job I have now. Truth be told if I had law school to do all over again I would have turned down the scholarship and went to the top school my LSAT score could have gotten me into.

Well, that makes sense because there are too many law graduates. But I think that, in general, going to an ivy league isn't necessary to get a well paying job.

[Greed and Death]

Unless you get extremely lucky going to a top 14 law school is the only way into the job I have now. Truth be told if I had law school to do all over again I would have turned down the scholarship and went to the top school my LSAT score could have gotten me into.

Well, that makes sense because there are too many law graduates. But I think that, in general, going to an ivy league isn't necessary to get a well paying job.

Well even before the glut, you still had to be top 10 or 15% of your class in a nonT14 school to get into a big firm and said big firm almost always reserves their partner positions for T14 grads.

[Othelos]

Well, that makes sense because there are too many law graduates. But I think that, in general, going to an ivy league isn't necessary to get a well paying job.

Well even before the glut, you still had to be top 10 or 15% of your class in a nonT14 school to get into a big firm and said big firm almost always reserves their partner positions for T14 grads.

then besides law graduates in general.

[Quew]

Time once again for a quip from captain killjoy.

I would rather not be stuck in such a totalitarian hell hole place that i could only choose 1 job and from then on be only that thing.

[SaintB]

I already answered that question by working 8 years in radio for minimum wage.