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When choosing a job, which is more important?

Choosing a Job: Money or fun?

When choosing a job, which is more important?

Money! Early retirement for more relaxed fun later!
11 votes
Fun! If work is fun, i can keep having fun while i work!
34 votes

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Yeah I think the both is the best

Um, the natural inclination is "BOTH!" but fun > money, though money is often conducive to having fun, so...

Look, if about 45 years of your life is devoted to work, which would you choose? I would rather prefer fun... though my definition of fun is running around shouting numbers at people, so it isn't much of a yardstick to compare by...

i tink i will also be more towards the money part, if i have the money, i can get all the fun i want... Erm, there shouldn`t be much fun working..

Having fun doesn't need too much or doesn't need money when you're working

Money, for sure.... anyway, if you're good at what you're doing, you'll always find a way to have fun at work (the days I spend in the lab "innovating"... gotta love R&D)

Definitely money. Money can buy fun.

Can't realy say one of them. It has to be a littke bit of work. The best job you can do is one that falls in the same category with your favorit hobby - in a way.

Let me give a little example:
Let's hipoteticaly(?) say that you like drawing and you would like to become a artist. That's fine and all, but there is a problem: not everybody likes your works and you find yourself with no buyers, thus you get no money to pay for your food nor work ecupments, and with no tuels ore good helth you can't continue working and thus would end up as a bager. If you are a great artist and people buy your work like hot bread, then good for you, but you must think of the worst thing that wouldhaappen when you get a easy job. Usualy the fun-filled ones are badly payed and at a point get exhausteful - think of clowns (that is usualy a part-time-job teenagers do when they are desperate - they erne almost nothing). The best thing you can do, is go up a level. If you are good in arts, you should work for a design company ore something close to that. At firt the pay won't be all the best, but you'd have a sure enough job and you would get payed - plus the aterials will be on the companies ecpence :-P And what's good with this is that you'll get to retire peacefully and enjoy the remaining ears of your life in a nice house surrounded by grandchildren.
Still, to make matters clear, I am not asking you to enter a word of pure buisness where you can only work and sleep, work and speel ... Buisness men have major-big salaries, but they have no life either. No family to great them and no friends to stay close to them. That is not a life.
The best option is to find a job that combines both trades - money and fun (it is posible). Don' go for what's easy, go for wat's wise. You will have to ear your living and why not your whife's/husband's and children. Plus there will be a time when your parents will retire and you will have to support them too - in a way. So think of it as a investment for the future, and also for the present.

The easy way is not always to best way. Think of all the aspects and decide what the best way is.

Money of course. If you can have fun/or have enjoyment out of whatever you are doing, then thats a bonus.

Both. You gotta choose a job which serves as a hobby wherein you get money

of course both but i would place fun n interest as a main priority

Both! (unless the job really sucks..)
I think it's fun working for money...but not fun without money..lol

FUN!

if its not fun i couldnt do it for all of my life
the money is just a nice bounus

It really should be both, or rather, it needn't be fun but you have to enjoy it. Have a crappy job puts you in a crappy mood, no matter how much money you make. I could make enough money to send all my great-grandkids to school but an awful, dull job will leave me in a bad mood when it comes to actually spend time with said family.

First, one should not based on money or fun at work as their basis for choosing a major at college. Rather, should ask oneself what s/he believes in life.

Now, back to the question: priority on money or on fun. One will be happier and life more meaningful when one chooses a fun job to work with. Putting money as the priority is a never ending game, we human are never satisfy. Wants itself is a black hole, when one got so much, they want more.

Personally, i would pick a fun job to do unless one has the absolute needs of money for whatever reasons s/he can justify. A fun job that one likes can be very difficult to come by even when you are in the right industry. After a few years at work, one may find s/he trying to get rich fast so s/he can retire fast. In the process of get rich fast, few succeeded but most failed. Those succeeded may want more in the end and are sucked back into the blackhole while those failed would give another shot and another shot and another shot and ... until they can't afford to lose anymore. There are only a handful of people out there who can create fun at works that they don't entirely prefer in doing. Such is life.

fun....
i't will reduces my stress...
so i won't die young because of stress

i will choose that after working,earn more money then have fun later!^^i want work hard first then relax with many money!^^

It depends. Sometimes the people you work with, makes it fun. Other times, you have to try to make it fun. Work is work either way. But I think the main difference is how you make your work fun.

When I started, it wasn't really fun. It was kinda annoying at times. But after awhile, when I got used to everyone, I started joking around with everyone. Then it was fun. Nowadays, I even look forward to going to work with some of them.

Btw, I work in the IT field as helpdesk.

Learn from my experience!
Never take a job for the money!
It's not worth it!
I prefer to be mentally sane than sick for a job I don't like!
IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU DO, YOU'LL DO A FINE JOB. MONEY WILL COME EVENTUALLY

well money first before get fun.

Both. I need money to pay for my school and bill. At the same time I need my fun or I go nuts.

Both for me,, but i would probably do it more for fun.. You enjoy your work,, do a better job,, get better salary,, and more money! I mean,, why do you want money? Isn't it to make your life more fun and enjoyable (this includes your home,, food,, etc.. XP)? Unlike if you do a job that you don't like/love/enjoy,, maybe you'll end up getting fired for bad quality work or worse.. But in the end,, it's best if it's both money and fun,, ahaha,, ^^,,

ne you have to feel good in a work place, if you dont, youre not really working, youre like a zombie ^^

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