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Money $$$$? or Love?
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it depends.
does the job with more money allow you time to enjoy it?
is your professional 'art' something that you could do for fun on the side/weekends?
is the lower paying job something that you KNOW you'd enjoy, or might it become a chore eventually?
would it mean that you struggle to make ends meet?
does the job with more money allow you time to enjoy it?
is your professional 'art' something that you could do for fun on the side/weekends?
is the lower paying job something that you KNOW you'd enjoy, or might it become a chore eventually?
would it mean that you struggle to make ends meet?
Waiting for MattTheSkywalker to rip into this thread, lol.
Money.
starfish said:
Well it looks like you beat him(MTS) to it.
But if I for one, had to choose, it would be doing something I love.
pitbullstl
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ChefWide said:
My profession is hardly an art.....if I didn't have a responsibility to my children and wife, I would love to teach high school and coach high school football.....but alas, teachers are the least compensated of all public servants.......I make a pantload of money, big flipping deal......it's knowing that my family will never want for anything, all the while having the values that my father instilled in me, passed on to them......that gives me peace of mind.
Ultimately, I say you do what makes you happy.
I say follow your dreams Mr. Smoove.
Delinquent
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jnevin said:
That's the problem with most Americans it seems. Everyone is infected with the idea that their goal in life is to make more and more money. This has been greedily promoted by corporations as they know they can get more hours out of one person rather than hiring more "resources" to which would increase spending. One's goal should be to "supplement" life with one's job so that one can enjoy more materials, not the other way around. A job shouldn't be the only thing in one's life. So many people make so much money yet they never get to fully enjoy it.
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Delinquent said:
That's exactly it. I don't want the boat, porsche, biggest house, just to keep up with the Jonses'. I just want to be able to be done with it by the time I'm 50. If I keep doing the way that I've been so far, I'll be promoted to a position where I'll more than triple my current pay, plus have more time to live. It's a means to an end I suppose, but right now I'm working so much I don't know which way is up. I dream that I'm at work, at home working, traveling for work, etc. When I wake up I don't feel like I've slept at all. God I need to get back to the gym.
Scotsman
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The short answer is do what you love and it will make up for making less.
The long answer is you might look into doing the high paying gig for a while so you can save up some money and then hopefully start doing something you love. Conversely the thing you love may expand and make it just a monetarily worthwhile but be more personally satisfying. This is a hard question to deal with. I would take a paycut to do something I really love as opposed to making what I do now and not enjoying it that much.
Cheers,
Scotsman
The long answer is you might look into doing the high paying gig for a while so you can save up some money and then hopefully start doing something you love. Conversely the thing you love may expand and make it just a monetarily worthwhile but be more personally satisfying. This is a hard question to deal with. I would take a paycut to do something I really love as opposed to making what I do now and not enjoying it that much.
Cheers,
Scotsman
GoldenDelicious
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pick the fun one
fistfullofsteel
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how much money and how much love? if we are talking billions then i'm going with billions.
exotic_island_girl
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I want a puppy
husky are cool
husky are cool
OK Hansel, here you go.
Of course you can have both - pitbullstl seems like he does. But for the purpose of the thread...hard to answer.
I know that money is the fastest route to freedom, the freedom that allows you to have a no limits life, to experience everything you wanted, to be reborn as pure energy absent the constraints of the temporal earth, or most of them anyway. And it is this freedom of the spirit that allows your soul to soar like it cannot when there are temporal constraints.
People worry about life after death when they don't even live life after birth.
In theory, love should do the same - set your soul free to soar to heights beyond what you thought possible, to allow you to change the lives of others. But our current world has constrained our spirits, attemtping to enslave us to the things of this world.
We are killing ourselves for a bag of shitty dreams sold to us by second rate advertisers themselves trying to eke out a shitty living. Break the chains and set yourself free, however you must.
Both money and love can set us free if you are of right mind. pitbullstl is quicker to dismiss money as "not a big deal" because he has already structured his life, more or less, around his family goals and providing for his future...or so it seems. I admire the relationship he has with his family.
I have no such constraints (though he would never call them constraints, I am speaking now from my perspective) so to me the idea of introducing anything which would limit my vision, my mind and my spirit is untenable.
So I answer for myself - the empire must grow. Once the freedom is in place, the money becomes irrelevant, and the vision - a vision of a world with more people who think like I do - a world imprinted with my mind forever, becoems the new focus.
The empire grows. The love waits. But not forever.
Of course you can have both - pitbullstl seems like he does. But for the purpose of the thread...hard to answer.
I know that money is the fastest route to freedom, the freedom that allows you to have a no limits life, to experience everything you wanted, to be reborn as pure energy absent the constraints of the temporal earth, or most of them anyway. And it is this freedom of the spirit that allows your soul to soar like it cannot when there are temporal constraints.
People worry about life after death when they don't even live life after birth.
In theory, love should do the same - set your soul free to soar to heights beyond what you thought possible, to allow you to change the lives of others. But our current world has constrained our spirits, attemtping to enslave us to the things of this world.
We are killing ourselves for a bag of shitty dreams sold to us by second rate advertisers themselves trying to eke out a shitty living. Break the chains and set yourself free, however you must.
Both money and love can set us free if you are of right mind. pitbullstl is quicker to dismiss money as "not a big deal" because he has already structured his life, more or less, around his family goals and providing for his future...or so it seems. I admire the relationship he has with his family.
I have no such constraints (though he would never call them constraints, I am speaking now from my perspective) so to me the idea of introducing anything which would limit my vision, my mind and my spirit is untenable.
So I answer for myself - the empire must grow. Once the freedom is in place, the money becomes irrelevant, and the vision - a vision of a world with more people who think like I do - a world imprinted with my mind forever, becoems the new focus.
The empire grows. The love waits. But not forever.
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PBR
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i think manny says it all...i know so many people who watch their lives slip away for the mighty dollar, missing opportunities, people , loosing perspectives, etc etc...they are extremely miserable, it shows on them, not only in their lives, but physically too....it "can" be an early grave...manny78 said:
Gemini_Man
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Money. Easy choice.
hamstershaver
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definately money since you can buy hot chicks with it
ChefWide said:
Fuck yeah so do I, but tacos are better.
Hope things are good.
pitbullstl
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MattTheSkywalker said:
We are more alike then you will ever know. The love of a family of your own will be there for your taking, when you are ready.
As far as dismissing money, never. I am fully aware that a life without, would provide such constraints on my time, that the core soul of my being ( the relationship I have with my wife and kids) would suffer terribly.
ChefWide said:
The house is out of control. It's so much bigger than I thought it would be, and the tower is not even framed yet.
The kitchen and pantry are framed and looking good. Question for you: what do you think of down draft systems for ranges?
CENTURION44
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Money...hands down...you can always take the time later on after youve made the money to have things perfect...even better than youd hope cause now you have all this extra money and less stress
jrc04444 said:
if you think having lots of money reduces stress, you live on planet Zircon. it makes your stress level go up about 1000000% and there are no easy answers to the stressors.
CENTURION44
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MattTheSkywalker said:
Zircon...LMAO....do they supermarkets on Zircon
wutangnomo
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I choose great sex.
(What the hell was the point of this thread again? lol)
(What the hell was the point of this thread again? lol)
pitbullstl
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Scotsman said:
I like monkeys, they're funny and stuff.
wutangnomo
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Scotsman said:
It's called sarcasm. The point of this thread is obvious, but thanks anyway for pointing it out.
Scotsman said:
Damn I'm so vain... I thought this thread was about me
lol
j/k
coldblue1955
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money can't buy me love. So i'll take true romance!ChefWide said:
MILF69
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I say stick with doing what you love...I personally have always known what I wanted to do. So I did whatever it took to get where I wanted to go. It has taken me awhile but I finally have exactly what I've been working so hard for and the money has come with it. You have to put in the effort for what you love, what your passion is. Everything else will eventually fall into place.
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