What's more important, a good job or a well paid job?

Silent Runner

I'm trying to make my way into a job which I absolutely love but in some respects I'd be considered over qualified. I could be making around +10,000EU a year if I went for the job I'd be fully qualified for but just don't like it. On the other hand I'm going for this job because it's been the only job where I looked forward to going in, had a passion for it, felt sad finishing up there (temporary contract).

So do you think this sounds nieve? Depends on the person I suppose, but do you think it's more important to make money or go for a job which you love?

The King of Moo

I totally identify with your position, and may well be doing something similar soon.

For me, a job you like (or at least don't hate) is always preferable to one that pays well but makes you unhappy.

Where To

A blow job is more important

Dotrel

The good job (if you can make ends meet with it).

Mazeire

The King of Moo wrote: »

I totally identify with your position, and may well be doing something similar soon.

For me, a job you like (or at least don't hate) is always preferable to one that pays well but makes you unhappy.

Agreed. All the money in the world isn't worth it when you spend your whole weekend dreading Monday morning.

listermint

10,000 a year ?

job sucks man...

Dotrel

Think he means the shít job pays an extra 10k

pragmatic1

I'd take the well paid job. Money makes the world go round.

Silent Runner

listermint wrote: »

10,000 a year ?

job sucks man...

No I could be making +10,000EU a year on top of what I'd be earning now.

No matter how good a job is, 10,000 isn't great:pac:

Silent Runner

I can't help but feel some people treat their job like a chore and just can't wait to leave finish up, and I'm not talking about people who have been in their jobs for years but some people who've only been in for a year or two.

flutterflye

Personally I'd always go with the job that I love, or at least like or get some enjoyment or fulfillment out of, as opposed to a job that I hated or disliked.

Even if the job that gave me satisfaction was the much harder road, as long is I had enough money to get by.
You can always get promotions or use your experience to get a better job in the same area further down the line.

Money and 'things' don't matter that much to me though.

marketty

Is that 10,000 p/a before or after tax? Big difference there. But either way I'd be inclined to go with the job you enjoy, assuming its enough to pay the bills! Can be pretty bad for your mental state if ur spending 40hrs a week getting your head wrecked, I'd want a lot extra in my pocket for the bother of it!

CL888

It all depends on your circumstances really, if you've got a mortgage, big car loan etc a well paid job would be better

Caveman1

Money cant buy happiness go where your happy

thee glitz

Cash ftw

SmartHass

If you can get a job that you LOVE, youll never WORK another day in your life so go for it

amacca

All depends on how well paid the job is.............will I make the fabled megabucks in a relatively short space of time in this well paid job so I can then spend the rest of my life doing things I like?...or when I take 50% plus tax + more stress + possibly more hrs etc out of an extra 10k will the 10k+ job turn out to be more poorly paid than what I would have liked.

anyway for me its probably the money as long as theres enough of it........im a moneywhore! (mmmmmm lovely lovely money)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5ooaufrLM

Snakeblood

Silent Runner wrote: »

I'm trying to make my way into a job which I absolutely love but in some respects I'd be considered over qualified. I could be making around +10,000EU a year if I went for the job I'd be fully qualified for but just don't like it. On the other hand I'm going for this job because it's been the only job where I looked forward to going in, had a passion for it, felt sad finishing up there (temporary contract).

So do you think this sounds nieve? Depends on the person I suppose, but do you think it's more important to make money or go for a job which you love?

Where's the better paid job, if by some stellar coincidence you are also completely unqualified, I might apply.

chuckyarelaw

Getting laid surely?

joseph brand

Go for the job you enjoy and don't worry about the extra money to spend on crap.

I used to earn more money than I knew what to do with, so I just blew it. €80 on a meal for 2 was every week. What the hell was I doing?

On the flip side, that job was a source of dread for me. Loooong 12 hour shifts of boredom. I've had jobs where the time absolutely flies by. They help Friday come quicker.

MOC88

Big difference between 22000 to 32000 and say 50000 to 60000.

If you're on a decent wage in the job you enjoy go for the one you enjoy - you wouldn't be able to afford your mid life crisis car anyway with 10k so better not to have one and actually enjoy your job.

AgileMyth

Nice position to be in. I'm in a ****e job where the moneys ****e too!

Just noticed how old the thread is. OP are you on the dole yet?

JohnnyCarmello

Caveman1 wrote: »

Money cant buy happiness go where your happy

Money doesn't buy happiness Caveman, money is happiness

Depends on what the jump is in % terms really. As someone said, 20 to 30 is a huge difference. 50 to 60 isn't quite as much (although still good obv).

Also, future earning potential, will that 10k gap become 15-20-25k down the line?

Ray Palmer

I took a job that paid at least 30k less (before tax) than I could earn because I like the company and people so much more than where I had been before and since.

The thing is the money didn't bother me for a while but I was beginning to notice it before the company closed. I may very well have left as a result, it was over a €1250 a month less (after tax) than I had been paid.

What you are doing daily does effect you but being broke has more of an effect on your life. Being picky about your job is a luxury that really only having money can allow it.

sbsquarepants

If the 10 grand extra isn't a big deal to you, go with the one you love - there's nothing worse than having to force yourself to come in to a job you hate, 10k wouldn't compensate you for it (it's only about 100 quid a week after tax)- provided the other one pays enough to get by on.
For 10k extra though i'd put a match to my job as i was leaving (but then i don't love the place or anything like it :mad:)

The point of a job is to make money to enjoy your time outside work. More money means you live a more comfortable live and have more money buy the things that make life better. So on that basis it has to be the better paying job.

The one thing that would come into consideration for me is the location of the job. If the better paying job meant moving abroad or away from the areas I want to live then id rather the less paying one but if both jobs were were I want to live I'd take the better paying one.

200motels

marketty wrote: »

Is that 10,000 p/a before or after tax? Big difference there. But either way I'd be inclined to go with the job you enjoy, assuming its enough to pay the bills! Can be pretty bad for your mental state if ur spending 40hrs a week getting your head wrecked, I'd want a lot extra in my pocket for the bother of it!

In the long run your better off doing something you enjoy as you'll become excellent at it and achieve great things, if you don't like what your doing you'll never achieve great things with it no matter how hard you try, a job you don't like is soul destroying, I worked at a place for 10 years and hated every moment of it and left it when I had the courage to do so, my only regret is I didn't do it sooner.

Ray Palmer

200motels wrote: »

In the long run your better off doing something you enjoy as you'll become excellent at it and achieve great things, if you don't like what your doing you'll never achieve great things with it no matter how hard you try, a job you don't like is soul destroying, I worked at a place for 10 years and hated every moment of it and left it when I had the courage to do so, my only regret is I didn't do it sooner.

That is wishful hippy thinking. You can easily be terrible at the thing you like to do. You may also be very good at the thing you don't like to do. I am sure there are examples of inventors making things to do tasks they hated that made them very successful.

There are tons of example in music of artists making music they hated as it sold records while their own choices in music didn't appeal to the audiences.

Necessity is the mother of invention as I am sure you know given your username. A challenge in a job is sometimes just as important to make somebody reach higher.

sbsquarepants

Arlo Purring Mockingbird wrote: »

The point of a job is to make money to enjoy your time outside work. More money means you live a more comfortable live and have more money buy the things that make life better. So on that basis it has to be the better paying job.

True, but proportionaly you'll spend a lot more time in work than you will doing anything else. If you hate the biggest chunk of your time, it's hard to be happy overall. I'm not saying only work at things you love or any of that bollox, you have to earn money - but if you actually hate it that's different. Work is supposed to be a chore, that's why the give us money to do it!