Given the choice: a job you love, or a job that pays well...

Depends on the job, if I got £100k for being a bin man that would be a no-no, but in general I'd care more about the money than the job itself.
 
Money for sure. Money allows you to do the things you enjoy. If you have more, you can do the things you enjoy more. I have no ties, so would do virtually anything if the pay was right.

weringo said:
if I got £100k for being a bin man that would be a no-no
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I'd be the happiest bin man in the world for that cash! :D
 
You will probably find that the younger the person the more likely they would work for money. The reason I think that is that most young people will have not worked long enough to have the feeling of going into work and think oh **** I've got another 35 years of this !!

People that have worked for quite some time tend realise that having to go to work is actually quite a drag and that there are probably plenty of things you would rather do to entertain yourself but cant because you need to earn that crust. Actually turning up for work and not wanting to be there is one of the most horrible feelings that can be really depressing, so much so the money doesnt even matter.

For something you have to spend so much of your life doing, you have to at least like what you are doing well thats how it is for me.
 
Love.

Having to face that 'Monday morning feeling' every week sucks. You should be able to look forward to your next day at work and not wake up every morning miserable.

I'm looking for work in the emergency services too, couldn't stomach doing a 9-5 office job. Utterly soul destroying.
 
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A job that I love more than money.

The Cliche that money can't buy happiness is true, I currently LOVE my job, I mean i really love it. I am not earning a lot but everyday is so fun and interesting that i look forward to it.
 
Money. I'd take the job that pays well.

I'm still young enough to get out the other side of a decade's hard slog with life left to live, which would be improved dramatically by the hard work I put in over the course of those years.

I also still have my footy, my mates outside work, my family... work isn't the be-all and end-all. Work to live, don't live to work.
 
Oh money definatly... seen some guys doing I.T and on 50-60k, frankly one could work for 5 years and plump down on even 1 house in London and live off the money being made for rest of there lives, or do 3-4 years at that salary and simply migrate to europe or india and live like a king ;)
 
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The job you love wont earn you much and doesn't have any kind of big earning potential.
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Depends what kind of person you are, if you want to enjoy life to the fullest at every moment then always aim for a job you love. However if your anything like my finance student friend you'd put money above love any day.

Luckily I happen to do a job I love that pays well :p
 
I've had crap days dealing with idiots. As long as I could earn enough to support myself and any family I had, I'd rather do a job I enjoy.

The trouble is, I haven't yet found a job I'd like to do that much. So realistically, I'd currently choose the money.

Raymond Lin said:
A job that I love more than money.

The Cliche that money can't buy happiness is true, I currently LOVE my job, I mean i really love it. I am not earning a lot but everyday is so fun and interesting that i look forward to it.
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Can I ask what you do? That sounds like some serious job satisfaction...
 
I do civil litigation in personal injury claims and the main bulk of the work comes from a motor insurance company and some a general civil lit stuff. Most of the cases are RTA (road traffic accidents), may be i am a morbid person or something but i find it SERIOUSLY interesting doing this work, all of it. From the moment the claim comes in, you read all about it, how the accident happened, witnesses, police reports, accident reconstructions, medical reports, GP notes, and then later on you read about that person's whole life story almost, from where and when they went to school, what jobs they have ever taken. Sometimes you feel sorry for their injuries, some claimants fake it, some exaggerates, but you don't know (so you instructs surveillance on them). Of course as the defendant it is our job to pay as little as possible, the claimant will always start off a lot more, and our estimate is usually lower than their's so often it ends up somewhere in between in settlement but how it gets there is just so fun. And if it does gets to trial, it's even more fun !

There are just so much to do, and it is the area of law i want to get into.

p.s. plus, in all honestly, it doesn't pay that badly really.
 
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Money for a decade, if someone said to me I could go and earn £70k for 10 years working on an oil rig, I would be off, no commitments now, Think how much you could save by working on an oil rig.
 
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