High Salary Jobs versus Rewarding Careers
There is an admittedly simple (but not too simple) analysis of this personal choice at Money, Matter, and More Musings entitled Jobs That Pay Badly and People Who Choose Them. The post talks about why people choose certain jobs, even though they require an inordinate amount of effort and personal commitment in return for less financial compensation than other jobs in the same realm of interest. The author ponders what the world would be like if everyone always sought the highest return or their educational and occupational investment and tended toward the highest paying jobs all the time.
The issue is presented without such factors as poverty and lack of access to educational resources as well as other issues that would clearly make such a hypothetical debate moot. But the point of the discussion is to acknowledge that many people have the option to pursue more lucrative careers and yet they still decide to work in a job that pays them far less because they are doing something that they want to do. On some level, it’s a decision that every one of us makes when we are figuring out what it is we want to do with our time to pay for our freedom.
But it brought me immediately to thinking about ads that I’ve been seeing very recently for TheLadders.com, which is a high-end job board that touts the most jobs that pay over $100,000 per year. To me, this is a brilliant concept, largely because I think most people are immediately lured to the idea that they can somehow make a 6-figure income, regardless of their qualifications. “Maybe there’s a parking attendant job at a luxury hotel that pays $100,000.” Obviously, there are no such jobs, but the curiosity of most of us would probably still lead us to searching around the job listings, trying to figure out how the “other half” worked. I would bet that most people are working for (more) money and would be easily swayed by adding a proportionate level of compensation in exchange for a seemingly tolerable level of additional effort/misery at work.
The decision to work for money or fulfillment (or for some people, both) has been made since people began working in return for financial gain. For me, and perhaps for many of us, the decision is not exactly clear-cut. Personally, I value my time and my freedom over everything else. Obviously, money is required to pay the bills and time is required to make that money. So in that regard, I’m probably driven by money more than by career fulfillment. But I also don’t tend to accept doing things that I truly dislike and in the rare instances when doing those things are necessary, I try to limit them as much as possible. At this point in my life, I love what I do because it is entirely up to me.
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[...] Â Â Â Nonetheless, making a career choice is a very tough decision. Often times the opposing forces of making the most possible money possible and choosing a career for others battle in your subconscious. The two don’t always have to be at odds, but often times they are. For some food for thought, check out High Salary Jobs vs. Rewarding Careers, and Jobs That Pay Badly and People Who Choose Them. [...]
what a difficult decision ,have to been made!
Find the sequence of value may be the first step .
But ,what a difficult step!
Complex!
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