Job - Are you money motivated?

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The obvious answer is yes, everyone works to earn money so they can live. However some people will sacrifice money for a more confortable working environment, working conditions or many other things. Other people will just be money motivated.

I ask this because I have recently started a new job, the pay is about average for the type of job but the team I am working in is great, good banther and great set of people (from the short time i have known them during work hours) I can tell that there will be many technical projects I can help out with in future and will gain an aweful lot of experience from.

There is another job that I have an interview for next week, pay is 4.5k more but from what I have heard about the role and company I will be doing the same thing day in day out with quite a few other people and simply earn my wage. I dont think I will get a chance to do the same types of projects as in the role I am in now. I would need to be interviewed during the week for this role

What would you do?
 
I would stick with the job that you're in now provided what you were earning was adequate for funding your current lifestyle. I find that having a job that interests me and makes me happy is more important than money, as long as the money you're getting allows you to live a comfortable life. Having said that, my current job rarely delivers on the former and certainly doesn't pay much :p
 
If you are enjoying it and you have enough money now stick at it imo. Would the 4.5k extra benefit you enough throughout the year to make up for it?

My first job over summer was as a labourer with a builder and joiner. It was hard physical work 8-5, 5 days (which after sitting on my arse doing nothing for over a month was quite a change) but it was a great atmosphere and i enjoyed it, learning new things etc.
Got a job recently in a pub for similar pay/hour but only 2 8pm-1am shifts a week and i just didnt enjoy it at all. Served miserable drunk people and generally slaving away just earning the wage and i hated it. Needless to say i was more than happy to leave when he said i couldnt carry on working if i wanted the bank holiday off :p

tl;dr if you arent desperate for the money my small life experience would say stick to the current.
 
nope. start a new job in just over a week where i will be taking a 15% paycut on my current one.
 
My pay is ok for my lifestyle, i live at home with grandparents i got my motorbike and a gym membership. At the moment im happy with that aslong as i can afford to do both and also buy the odd dvd/game/gadget. Im 24 (25 october) and i dont wanna be earning a wage that wont let me move out by myself. So starting september im going back to college and in roughly 2-3 years ill be qualified to make ago at earning more money.
 
[TW]Fox;17148217 said:
£4.5k a year is only a few hundred quid a month tops after tax..
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Better than a kick up the arse. I can't wait to have done with my student loans for that few hundred quid a month extra!
 
I work specifically for companies that support Open Source software and usually take a paycut for sticking to my beliefs. I think its 100% worth it doing something you enjoy over a higher wage. If you have a job you don't like you're going to spend your free time complaining about it until it eventually takes over all of your life.
 
I guess it's whether the extra money from this other job (i.e. the ability to buy more 'stuff') will make you more happy than your current job where you enjoy work and the people you work with.

Will the £4.5k just end up in savings/mortgage etc or will you actually end up spending it things that you enjoy?

It's a real case of "does money buy you happiness?" :D
 
It hugely depends on what income you are on now and if you are comfortable with this income. 4.5K difference is a lot if you under say £40K PA as its over 10% increase which can help you in many ways as some have mentioned paying back your student loan.
 
I am money motivated, but despite that I still realise that job security and satisfaction is important. A balance is pretty good, and that's what I have - for the most part. I still need a bit more in the development area, which my existing company doesn't work well for. =/ So we'll just have to see how I go over the next year or so.
 
I'm not at all money motivated, fun and enjoyment are my motivations in work. I have left higher paying jobs to go to lower paying jobs in the past because the higher paying one had ceased to be fun/enjoyable. I don't ask for payrises or chase promotion, I enjoy what I do, I have fun doing it, that's plenty enough for me and I like to keep the status quo.
 
I'm earning less than I could, but I get to work 7 hours a day and then leave at half four if I want without people looking at me funny.
 
Can't put a price on enjoying your work! Stick at it!

I've learned that there is no price for enjoying work and being interested in it!
 
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