Love or money?

ruaille buaille

So would u rather have a job that u absolutely love doing but just barely pays the bills OR a job thats only alright but u have a pretty comfortable lifestyle.

LizT

You first

Swampy

Money

Vito Corleone

For me, a job is a job. It's never going to be enjoyable so I would choose money.

Three Seasons

I need to see some percentages and figures to decide.

Shamozzle

Money.

Fizman

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

crazy cabbage

Depends. I would proberly do with the job i love doing that just pays the bills.
But in all honesty even if you picked that other that only means that you will have more money to presue another interest that you love (such as traveling or skydiving or whatever)
Ideally - Both!!!

pragmatic1

Money. There's very little I wouldn't do to earn a few euro.

money - i can buy love

ruaille buaille

I've had both and I'm not sure which one is worse

PrincessPreach

I'd rather have a job that I love doing cos i'd be happier and more fulfilled all round. I could probably handle the banality of being a bit broke and unable to afford luxuries if I was content on a daily basis going to work.

Then again, i could probably handle the banality of a job that doesn't fulfill me if i could eat (hookers) out every night after work, get wasted on the reg, buy top notch coke and live in a hedonistic surreal bubble.

Sigh...sadly I'm in neither of the above scenarios and am just drifting along awaiting inevitable death:(

mardybumbum

Hopefully I will be lucky enough and have both but If I had to choose one it would be a job that I enjoyed.

Latchy

Money but ''money can't buy me love .....waoah ''

Tar.Aldarion

Vito Corleone wrote: »

For me, a job is a job. It's never going to be enjoyable so I would choose money.

Wlll that's sad.

I love my job so I'd have to go with love first. Screw making loads of money if you spend 40 hours a week hating it.

Odelay

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Money. There's very little I wouldn't do to earn a few euro.

PM sent;)

mardybumbum

Fizman wrote: »

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Then you end up being murdered by the Columbian drug cartel.

Definitely money. That makes me sound bad doesn't it?

I just would hate to be in a position in life where I barely paid the bills. That's not an easy life to live. I work to live, not the other way around, so I'd rather spend 8 hours a day a little less than joyous so that I could afford to spend my evenings and weekends as I please without having to worry about money.

Better again would be doing something I loved while getting really well paid, obviously.

anncoates

Even an enjoyable job is a job and you'd rather not go in most of the time so you may as well be bored for more money.

Jijsaw

Latchy wrote: »

Money but ''money can't buy me love .....waoah ''

Sorry we hurt your field Mister

ruaille buaille

But if you think about it, you nearly spend as much, if not more time in work than u do at home. So should u just go for the lesser paid fun job??

ruaille buaille

ruaille buaille wrote: »

But if you think about it, you nearly spend as much, if not more time in work than u do at home. So should u just go for the lesser paid fun job??

There's 128 hours in a week. I work 35 hours a week

wolfpawnat

A job that I like and enough moola to get by. I am not into brand name clothes, big cars and all that so doesn't interest me.

Is it too naff being this is AH to say I am happy with my kids father and I rather they have both of us in a happy home than féck loads of money?

Latchy

Jijsaw wrote: »

Sorry we hurt your field Mister

One hurt field

http://tlb.hwcdn.net/g5a9r2d3/cds/media/3ff/237b1af021ffc/view.jpg

Miss Lockhart

When it comes down to it - money. I am currently working in the job I love but only because I am supplementing the income by running my own business. I have minimal interest in the business but I am not willing to live on the money from the job I love either.

oldyouth

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Wlll that's sad.

I love my job so I'd have to go with love first. Screw making loads of money if you spend 40 hours a week hating it.

40 hours doing the job you hate and 128 hours to live the good life.

Money does buy happiness and the lack of it can cause untold misey

gg2

Money as long as there was love going on in other aspects of my life......... But, if unfortunately, family and friends were to abandon me, I was single with no sign of love coming along, basically if home life was bad I would need a job I love, that gives me fulfillment.

crazy cabbage

Deleted User wrote: »

There's 128 hours in a week. I work 35 hours a week

and sleep for another 60-70 odd hours which doens't leave much :eek:

crazy cabbage

crazy cabbage wrote: »

and sleep for another 60-70 odd hours which doens't leave much :eek:

You mightn't sleep all that easy if you're struggling to pay the bills!

I sleep 49 MAX a week and that's at a push.

Money, it seems like an obvious choice to me.

Tar.Aldarion

oldyouth wrote: »

40 hours doing the job you hate and 128 hours to live the good life.

Money does buy happiness and the lack of it can cause untold misey

Seeing as the average wage in ireland is still over 40000 and was more, I don't think that is exactly causing untold misery! And for less paying jobs, who would love any minimum wage job? Although perhaps that is skewed by large earners, depends on what wage people see as tough to live on.

WoollyRedHat

Ideally, both, a job I love and that pays decently, so that I'm not on the breadline every month and asking for some more soup.

I don't want to slave away to a detestable, rigid system for the rest of my human system, I'd like to work at something that fulfills me. As do most.

pragmatic1

Odelay wrote: »

PM sent;)

I was more thinking along the lines of killing people for money.

DazMarz

While I'd love to have a job that I'd love, I'd prefer to work a job that gave me little to no satisfaction but allowed me to live a life of luxury. Your job is only for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The rest of the time, you can spend enjoying the life that your job makes for you.

Also, if it's a good job with good pay, there's usually plenty of benefits (healthcare, company car, travel expenses, etc.) and potentially a good pension waiting in the wings for afterwards.

Compare that to a job that makes you lovely and happy, but you're struggling to make ends meet. I don't think so. I don't think it works at all.

af_thefragile

Job I love.

But looks like my life is taking a turn for the latter. I don't think I'm that fond of the field I'm getting into but its good money and a decent lifestyle so I'm going along with it... Maybe I'll eventually start to love my job as well or maybe I'll be able to sometime be able to do the things I love...

0ph0rce0

LOVE For Me

Cause i'll never have any money in this ****é hole of a country.

No point dreaming.

Czarcasm

Having been on both sides OP I'd have to say doing a job you love, because you'll do a job you love a lot longer than a job you're only doing because it pays well.

Doing a job you love is in the long term better for your mental health than doing a job you hate only for the money.

Doing the job you hate will wear you down mentally and physically and you won't be able to function outside of your job, and there's no amount of money makes up for that.

There were days in my job where I was earning a fcukload of money that I wished for simpler times when I was back shovelling shìt for a living. The money was great, but the stress was just as great.

Nowadays I have somewhat the best of both worlds- I'm self employed doing what I love, and the money is a secondary concern, and then I also do voluntary work which, obviously I don't get paid for, but helping and mentoring other people to fulfil their potential is something I'm very passionate about, and seeing others fulfil their potential- that's something money can't buy!

NuckingFacker

I get paid to do what I'd be doing if I didn't get paid, if you see what I mean. I.E I get up and mess around with stuff that interests me pretty much on my own terms. If I get bored I mess around with some other stuff that interests me.

Never paid a jot of attention to money, never done a damn thing ever just because of money, it would be the last thing that would motivate me to get out of bed. Also never had a "job" as such. Not poor by any stretch of the imagination. I think you are best off doing somthing you really love, the money usually follows if you are actually very good at what you do. Upside is you then get paid a lot to do your hobby. A job you dislike is soul-destroying and life is too short for that shyte. Do what you love.

cosbloodymick

HOW TO GET RICH

Rule number 1 = Do something you love.
Rule Number 2 = Make your hobby your career.

af_thefragile

cosbloodymick wrote: »

HOW TO GET RICH

Rule number 1 = Do something you love.
Rule Number 2 = Make your hobby your career.

Rule 3: Or die tryin' yo!

Capt'n Midnight

In response to the original question

I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy.
- Steve Martin

aaronjumper

Money. You could put it toward activities!
All the stuff I would do if I was rich. I would buy something fast and take it to a deserted area. For a start.

donegal_road

I posted this a couple of months back on a similar thread. Just in case anyone hasn't seen it, Id urge you to watch this video. It directly answers the OP's question and is very well articulated. The voice is of Alan Watts, the British philosopher.

'What if money didnt matter'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgmf0xTwsgE

April O Neill

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Money. There's very little I wouldn't do to earn a few euro.

WHORE!




:pac:

McChubbin

I'll take the money, Chris.

April O Neill

wolfpawnat wrote: »

A job that I like and enough moola to get by. I am not into brand name clothes, big cars and all that so doesn't interest me.

Me neither. I'd still rather have money. It buys a level of freedom.

Gorilla Rising

I think the OP is a little flawed.

The question asked is a job you love whereby you could barely pay the bills or and 'alright job' that gives you a comfortable lifestyle.

Obviously, anyone would rather have an alright job (which means to me they get some level of satisfaction from it) and a comfortable lifestyle.

However, I would much rather barely pay the bills with a job I love than one I hate with a comfortable lifestyle.

With the job you love you'll learn to adapt to a comfortable enough lifestyle (by your own standards).

I've done jobs I absolutely hate and it's soul destroying. It really affected my life outside work also.

I reckon some people will be trying to convince themselves they're in the right job as they're comfortable and can travel etc. It's just easier that way than striving to do what you love.

NuckingFacker

April O Neill wrote: »

Me neither. I'd still rather have money. It buys a level of freedom.

Which is a myth. One of the freest people I know does very little paid work. He travvels constantly, has seen the world and done amazing stuff, stuff people dream of doing, yet he's done it on a shoestring. Money buys responsibility and stuff to be reponsible for and people to be responsible for. And it's a drug. There is no "enough". "Enough" is never, ever enough.

razorgil

either way, you'll come home after 5 every evening, enjoy the family, listen to the kids regale you of their days in school, kiss the missus, watch some telly, and go to bed. i don't really give a shít what i have to do before 5, once i can enjoy what comes after 5. if the job is a bit shíttiér, but pays more, thats a bonus. then the weekends are full(er) of fun.

af_thefragile

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Which is a myth. One of the freest people I know does very little paid work. He travvels constantly, has seen the world and done amazing stuff, stuff people dream of doing, yet he's done it on a shoestring. Money buys responsibility and stuff to be reponsible for and people to be responsible for. And it's a drug. There is no "enough". "Enough" is never, ever enough.

But owning a nice BMW or Porsche would give a nice feeling...

April O Neill

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Which is a myth.

For the most part, it's not. That person you know is an exception. Very little paying work, and still manages to travel the world?