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the person who majored in what they love but not exactly the most marketable degree (i.e history) or the person who majored in something they hate but very marketable (i.e petro engineering)?
or does money overcome unhappiness at the workplace?
It depends. If the history major is homeless or something, then the petroleum engineer. But if the history major can support himself and just doesn't have a ton of extras, then the history major.
While love/hate is one criteria, can/cannot do is another. Hence:
1. do what you love and can do well = happier
2. do what you love but cannot do well = not so happy
3. do what you hate but can do well = not so happy
4. do what you hate and cannot do well = natural disaster!
My wife left a job that paid much more to go into education that she said was her perfect career.
I had higher paying jobs that I didn't really like.
As it turned out, she complained about her job much more than I did, over the years.
We're both retired now and it didn't really matter that much. A job is a job and it's all working toward retirement. Go for the best benefits and income.
NOOOOO. Don't go after the money in hopes of saving for retirement "so that you can then do what you really want to do." If you reach retirement, and if you happen to be in decent health, guess what... you will be too fricken old to do what you really want to do!
This is a joke right? That people, without using the real language of the situation, are stating... work for someone else doing their will for the entirety of your youth, earning little green pieces of paper the value of which you have no control over but which will certainly decline over time, in hopes that someday when you are no longer of value to your employer you can then reach out of your indentured servitude to do what you've always dreamed of in old age using the residual value of the green pieces of paper to support your lifestyle!
Come on... be serious folks... if that sounds good/reasonable to you, you need to stop drinking the Kool-aid or at the very least stop encouraging others to do it.
Do you realize that if everyone chooses the way of the Engineer in the OP's example in search of riches vs doing what they enjoy doing/have actual interest in, you won't see hardly progress in any of the fields of human achievement? I'm unapologetic in pointing out I have yet to see but a mere handful of people retire happy after spending their entire youth in jobs they hated... if you are continually planning for the future worrying about it, guess what... you will miss TODAY.
Money can't buy happiness. But it can definitely help rent it.
I agree that money does not buy happiness, but like it or not, you need it to live. While some people (surprisingly) argue against my logic, the three basic needs you have are food, clothing, and shelter. All three of those things cost lots of money. If you can barely afford those because you have gotten a worthless degree and are slinging hash, that makes for a pretty miserable existence. If you are working slightly better than slinging hash and can at least afford the basic necessities but can't do much else, while the stress may be lower, that still makes for a pretty miserable existence. So yes, you do need to make a decent wage to afford a good quality of life. As far as making friends, finding a significant other and things like that, no amount of money will help you on those. That's where the money can't buy happiness saying comes into play.
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