Well off with no meaning or meaning with no money?

If you had the choice between working for a cause you do not believe in but being very well paid, able to afford a beautiful apartment and new car, able to stay in school, live in the same county (which is gorgeous and near the beach) and be near your family and doggies

OR

move to a place that was about an hour from the beach, paid not a lot at all(I mean I would have to budget down to the dollar until one of my loans is paid off-about 2 years), in a lower-middle class area with a lot of subsidised housing, but hard working families and relativley safe, got to take a job with a company that you love, would allow for more work travel and have a really cool position that you need in order to move ahead in the company on a national level.

I am so confused. I tried to just let the higher power steer me where I need to go. But, the longer I do that the more confused I become.

 

Ok, looking in from the outside, I would say the second option.... But if it were me, I have a feeling I would go for option # 1. . Not saying it's the "right" thing to do, but I would probably do it.

 

Second options you have your whole life to make money.

 

see I am at a loss because I love clothes and shoes and bags and martini bars and my latte with extra foam and laying out on the beach every weekend during the summer and I love my class I am in right now and the teacher and would hate to be set back with school

But then this is a title I've wanted for a long time with a company I love and with the perfect age-group of kids and a chance for me to write grants again and spend lots of time at the national office across the country.
Both weigh out equally in very different ways.

 

I'd probably take the first

And at the least, stick with it for a few years, save up some moolah and pay off your bills, then go for the job that speaks to your heart

 

That's really good advice and I do have a shit load of bills.

God the people interviewing me were just so nice, casualy dressed. The whole town seemed way down to earth. Out of the town it's just all desert and palm trees, which was really pretty. But I know I want to finish this class too. I just wish I had a solid plan and didn't deviate from it ever. I wish I was less flakey in terms of what I want.

 

find a job that pays alot and you love
easier said than done i suppose, i'm lucky with my bartending
i absolutely love it to death

 

my life stands testiment to my choice.

i've slept under bridges rather then contribute to perpetuating a way of life i do not want, don't believe in, and have no use in hell for any part of.

monetary wealth is a convenience. and a lack of it can be damd inconvenient. but a clear conscounse is the pearl beyond price.

however you can find to get by, without doing violence to your conscounse, without causing harm and suffering to others, whatever status high or low it brings you in the eyes of others, is of little moment beyond that. if it can meet or feed one of the two real gratifications in life, i.e. creating and exploring, all the better.

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it would be wonderfull if everyone had those well defined choices before them ......some may have more ......many others have none ....so as a thing to ponder , your question is provocative . just remember that there are millions of your fellow humans driven to desperation and bereft of good choices .....a system of paracitic abuse has driven some to desperate measures .....u think that people blow themselves up in palestine cause they made the wrong choice , or that they are seeing nothing in their future except prison torture and genocide ?......if you speculate or invest in the things that corporations n govs. are doing to push people to their limit ...u r a part of the iron hand that forces desperate measures on their part ....all things being equal , most humans would opt for being nice and reciprocating love ......

 

If you work and you're not happy with what you do, and you have the choice to work at something you would love to do, for me this decision would be easy. Money means nothing if you're not happy.

 

but a lot of the things she likes involve having money to spend on said things.
*shrugs* I'm in a job right now because of the money. And that it's easier than finding another job, but mostly the money.

I still think that you should get yourself out of debt, Bella, and then worry about finding a job that fulfills your soul. It's hard to work a place that you enjoy the work, but can barely get by when you aren't working.

 

I decided to take the job that pays less in Redlands and to put off school rather than the one in Vista if I am offered it, they are just checking my references, which are great.
My mom said whe will give me her computer and some furniture and that she will always pay for the gas or plane ticket for me to come home on the weekends. She has always been adverse to me moving out of town but she knows this is the perfect job for me.
I found out this morning that the job has a relocation allowance so I don't have to worry about first and last month's.

 

hahaa that's impossible int eh world of non-profits...none of the jobs really pay what most would consider 'good'. It would be the difference between around 30k a year as oppossed to the one down here that starts at 45/a year.

That sounds like a kick ass job. You must meet awesome people.

 

The problem is that the one here also conflicts with my moral beliefs. I would be the spokes person for a drug free north county. People would laugh when they saw the ads and I am also afraid enemies would come up with incriminating photos. I've quit doing any sort of drugs, but I have a really scetchy past and a lot of people who are jealous and don't like me.

My debt doesn't really bother me. Not having disposable income really would bother me though because even now on severants and unemployment I have disposable income.
I could always work a second job if things got really tight too.

 

Then just be honest with 'em, if people ask say yes you had a problem and that's why you're doin the anti-drug thing now

I guess, yeah, you could do the second job thing. Two jobs would drive me batty (well, if one was f/t at least) but that's me.