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How would you deal with your dream job having really shitty pay? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it all. Basically I am at a point where I can choose between 2 jobs.

One would leave me incredibly busy, completely stressed for the next 3-4 years and wouldn't leave me with a lot of free time in general (it also has a very high burn out quote) and a lot of young people who enter the job leave shortly after. The pay would be good, the job is incredible secure, it would make me a civil servant and it's a job I would mostly enjoy. I find it incredibly fulfilling and it is a lot of fun. But my job would be pretty much everything I do from then with no real time for other hobbies.

The other job is much more relaxed, it is even more fun and I would work with one of my hobbies. But the pay is dogshit I would make the least of any of my friends, it is less secure and the working hours are funky but regular. It might become very challenging to afford a family on this salary (not impossible though).

I feel like I am fucked either way. Any thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well if I'm no longer in a Capitalist shithole society, then I'm working a job because I enjoy it to begin with. The pay is just a bonus. If I'm still in Capitalism, the only reason to work anywhere, ever, is for the money. If I can still survive/thrive, and retire with the "shitty pay" then maybe I could be ok. If not, then I have to pass.

You don't live to work, you work to live.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which isn't a way to live for me and the reason why I am in this conundrum. Being forced to work a job that will burn me out just to pay the bills will 100% drive me to drugs and/or violence/suicide sooner or later. Something I would like to avoid.

Worst thing is the first job would be great if it wasn't for capitalism and more and more responsibility being pushed onto less and less people.