High Salary or Being happy

Happiness and money are the two crucial factors for people to choose their jobs. It’s not common people get the both from their jobs as they expected. Different people make their own answers to the question which is more important. Some believe being happy is more important than high salary, others hold the opposite opinion. From my own perspective, there are three reasons make me believe that the happiness outweighs the high income from the job.

First of all, most jobs with high salary are laborious and not suitable for everybody. It’s said that “no pain no gain”. If you get more money from the job, you usually need paying it back in other ways. High salary jobs often come with fierce competition, heavy workload or high pressure from the work, which might tough or even vital for a person. It’s not rare to hear people commit suicide for some of these reasons. One of my friends has worked in PricewaterhouseCooper and had a good payment, but to my surprise he changed his job recently. After he told me that when he worked in the company he hardly had a sleep more than 5 hours per day and spent rest of time in boring works such as dealing with papers or typing in front of the flickering screen, I think his choice is reasonable.

On the other hand, the delightful jobs is not so tiring and it could save much time and money. Comparing with high payment jobs, the jobs that make people happier is not so tiring since the enjoyment could largely release your pressure. What’s more, people could save much time and money that should be used in the relaxation such as taking a journey or playing golf, which is common and necessary for people who have high income jobs. People who are happy with their jobs could take one trip during a year or half while others might a trip weekly or monthly because of the high work stress.

In addition, as the propulsion of working hard, happiness is more powerful than cash. If you love your job you will do your best to finish it and will never miss any chance to improve it. For instance, Some successful male programmers in Silicon Valley love their jobs so much that sometimes they called the computers as their girlfriends. They definitely put all their soul in doing their jobs and that make them excellent and perfect in their jobs. But if people do their jobs just for money, they are not so much enthusiastic. They might do other irrelative things at work, or when they find a small mistake but they just leave it alone because it’s not relate to their payment. Happiness is an intrinsic and consistent drive for people working more hard, actively and enthusiastically.

Being happy with the job could save much time and money and it makes people work more actively and effectively. contrastly, the high salary job just bring more stress and pressure. So I put happiness with job into a more important place.