Apr
If you could do something that is a hobby - writing, photography, sport, painting etc. and make a reasonable but not huge living e.g. £20k per year, OR do a job, like most people, that you hate but know you have to do to it for the money, and get a good salary of £50k - which would you select??
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Tried one paying loads of dosh which didn't excite me in any way. It slowly corrodes your spirit. OK, so I could buy pretty much what I wanted within reason but you can't purchase your way out of being buried alive by petty bureaucracy, incompetent management and abysmal commuting conditions. The trouble is it consumes your life, leaving you older and wiser but no longer up for the challenge of a new career offering the self-expression and fulfilment you should have pursued in the first place. My advice: Grab life and squeeze until the pips pop out. You only get one shot at this. The pursuit of money is a poor use of that time.
There's a quote - can't recall who by - that goes something like: “When I get to the end of my life, I want to have lived the breadth of it, not just the length.” That has to be worth thinking about before it is too late.
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I earn £350 a day speaking b*llocks about 'strategy' in dull senior management meetings. I abhore my job and the money isn't enough to make any more pleasant. At the weekend, when I get one, I enjoy photography, it's the only thing that keeps me sane. If I was offered a job as a photographer or could do it freelance and just make £15k a year, I would do it without hesitation. The way I feel when I am being creative makes me feel alive and I would live on scraps in a one bed flat to keep that feeling inside. the way I feel when I am working I feel like a dead man inside. Money is nothing. Creativity and love of a job is everything…
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the job I loved on 20k but it would have to be out of London or I'd never survive on that low salary - I can hardly survive on the £50k salary in London, I hate it here and I hate my job, if I could find a job I didn't detest on £20k in a city where the cost of living meant I could afford to live somewhere vaguely decent then I'd jump at it!
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i bet the grass is always greener, people on £50k would rather a lower paid job they enjoyed and people earning a low wage would believe £50k could make everything alright (Until they had it then they would realise it didn't solve anything) - how about earning £50k for a creative hobby. At least. I'd be a successful writer. Or a famous photgrapher. Earning £500k. Why not have both????
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Well, as a single Londoner I couldn't live on £20k per year so it wouldn't be an option.
I get your point regarding money vs enjoyment but you do need to think of the practical side too. Regardless of how much I loved my job, I couldn't live on less than £25k and even that would be a struggle.
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oh 20k is reasonable is it? I need to talk to my boss!
In answer to your question though, I would take a job I like over a higher paid one with one exception. If the higher paid job was a part time and I had more time to myself to spend that money, I think I could tolerate it. There's no point being well off if you can't like it!!
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I'll actually be om this dillema soon enough. I've decided that I'll take the 20K approach rather than the 50K.
Plenty of people I know earning 50K and are very unhappy so it just shows money really isn't everything. Lets face it, you spend what you earn regardless.
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depends on the hours, and just how much I loved or hated the other option
a lot of factors
50k is not that much, neither is 20k, so I would probably do something that makes me happy
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hmmm i think i would have to go for the 20k job i love as there’s more to life than earning money. id rather be happy and skint that rich and miserable
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Most jobs in both those income brackets would be skilled jobs or professions you had chosen, not that you ended up doing by chance.
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You know what they state, 'Do a job you love and you never work a day in your life.' I like that!!!
I love what I do and never feel like I’m working!!
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The job I loved would win hands down every time!
I couldn't see myself working in a job I hate, just because it pays a lot more. Nah not for me.
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one that i loved definitely because ok money purchases you nice things but you spend most of your life working so if you dont like where you work thats like wasting your life away!
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20k job wheres the fun in earning all that money when your too miserable to spend it
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I'd take the 20K job, life's too short to spend most of it unhappy.
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£50k and i would make up for it with a hell of a social life and lots of holidays lol
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£50k for a job i hated.
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The 50k one. Work to live not the other way around!!
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I would like a job that payed £20k
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enjoy first…money will follow
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i would take either, they’re both higher then current wages!