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05-10-2017, 09:32 AM | #1 | |||
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A job you love and enjoy, and a job you absolutely hate that earns you twice as much, which would you choose?
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05-10-2017, 09:36 AM | #2 | |||
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The first one, it would make you ill going into work everyday if you hated it.
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05-10-2017, 09:36 AM | #3 | |||
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Rather do a job i love
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05-10-2017, 09:38 AM | #4 | ||
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It depends on the wages involved. Would job 1 be enough to comfortably live on (not like..loaded or anything but enough to maybe have a holiday every now and then and not be living on beans for the last week of the month)? Or minimum wage type thing? This would definitely change my answer.
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05-10-2017, 09:43 AM | #5 | |||
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well if one was working at a local strip club oiling the girls before they went on at Ł8.50 an hour and the other was slopping out the local abattoir on Ł16 per hour I think I would stay at the Strip club.
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05-10-2017, 10:12 AM | #6 | ||
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If enjoyable job A is a comfortable income then I say stick with it, even if job B is 10x the income. What's the point? If you work full time, you spend more time at work than enjoying the spoils anyway! However, if job A barely pays the bills / means scraping by and money worries for your family and job B would provide a comfortable life out of work, then you sort of have to suck it up and take job B. |
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05-10-2017, 10:13 AM | #7 | ||
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Heh... "Job B"...
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05-10-2017, 10:15 AM | #8 | |||
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05-10-2017, 10:22 AM | #9 | ||
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05-10-2017, 10:32 AM | #10 | |||
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05-10-2017, 10:33 AM | #11 | |||
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The same as Vicky's answer.
Considering I'm now working in a well-paid job, I would very much be tempted with option A, as long as I can live of it.
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05-10-2017, 10:35 AM | #12 | |||
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Work at the one you hate for two or three months then quit and go to the one you love.
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05-10-2017, 10:37 AM | #13 | |||
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In life you should always do what you love
but find a way to make it pay then you will be happy |
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05-10-2017, 10:38 AM | #14 | |||
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Honestly the first one, even if it meant working a minimum wage job.
Life is too short to be doing something you hate and there is nothing worse than a job where you're living in fear of going in every morning and simply living for the weekend.
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05-10-2017, 10:52 AM | #15 | ||
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When my eldest was born I was in a crappy low paid job and it was awful... that fear of a bill etc. landing on the mat and knowing you'll struggle to pay it. I never worried about things like that when I was single and childless ... it was a case of "meh, whatever" and I'd just have moved back in with my dad or dossed on my sister's couch if worst came to worst. But yeah, low income with kids is horrible. But I did / do hate the job honestly, and back then I swore I wouldn't do it for more than a few years. It's just that I got promoted, and then promoted again... so now it's 8 years later and I'm in a position where I *still* hate the job, which tbqfh is more or less the same as the basic role 90% of the time with a bit more responsibility and a few hours a week doing easy "management stuff", but - while we're not exactly loaded - we are comfortable for the time being and that's more important than me doing something I actually like. That said, we are working on it, my wife is at University and I should be able to break free when she qualifies in a year and a half's time . Plus it could be a lot worse. I mean... I could do the job in my sleep (and sort of DO do it half asleep ) and it's comfortable and warm and an old lady always gives us snacks. I just low-key despise the dodgy smelly ****ers I have to converse with every day . |
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05-10-2017, 10:57 AM | #16 | |||
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Yeah, all good points, and kind of similar to my situation really. I mean I don't hate my job but it's boring and samey but I couldn't cope with anyone telling me what to do so I'll stay here forever
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05-10-2017, 11:03 AM | #17 | |||
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It's good to hear you're at least getting somewhere in your job and it's not totally dead end, but the feeling of doing the same thing every day and almost feeling like you're "above" the work you do is a horrible feeling and one I can kind of relate to as well.
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05-10-2017, 11:12 AM | #18 | ||
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But yeah, two more years and I'm out! Hopefully . And I'll still be 4 months off working for them for 10 years so I consider that a win . Maybe I'll stick around a few months, get my 10 year bonus (it's Ł100 of Amazon vouchers. Not even joking...) and then tell them to stick it . |
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05-10-2017, 11:34 AM | #19 | |||
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On a personal level I couldn't work at a job I hated and fortunately never had to.
Hubby on the other hand worked at the same place for over thirty years, survived three takeovers and put up with conditions that were not at all good in the end. He put up with it to keep a roof above our heads and worked towards an early retirement. So it depends on circumstances, like TS said. |
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05-10-2017, 11:34 AM | #20 | |||
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another vice
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The job you really enjoy but paid less.
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05-10-2017, 11:42 AM | #21 | |||
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You can love any job with the right attitude c u later, paupers.
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05-10-2017, 11:44 AM | #22 | |||
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Sewage tank cleaner?
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05-10-2017, 11:46 AM | #23 | |||
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just jazz up your overalls, put on a smile, and get that tank clean.
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05-10-2017, 11:49 AM | #24 | |||
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Poositive thinking?
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05-10-2017, 11:49 AM | #25 | ||
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We're hiring at the moment, I'd take that challenge. I should mention that the longest we've managed to keep a newstart in the last 3 years... is 4 months. I will literally bet real money that you cannot "love it" .
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