Money, or happiness? (Career)

An ancient Chinese saying says: “Find a job you enjoy doing and you will not have to work a day in your life”. The meaning is that you will be so busy enjoying your work that you will not consider it work at all. 

My question is can we all find jobs that are enjoyable?

Part 1: The Importance of Happiness and The Importance of Money  (Expressive & Evaluative)
Part 2: Balancing Money & Happiness (Persuasive)

Part 1: Importance of Happiness & Importance of Money (Expressive & Evaluative)

Money vs. Happiness

 

First of all, in my opinion, the purpose of life is to seek pleasure and to avoid pain.

Looking at this way, it is obvious that humans automatically look for what gives them pleasure. In that case, it might be true that we look for work we enjoy. It is advisable that we seek out jobs that we enjoy, though they may not pay very well. 

The argument here sounds simplistic: Can we all find jobs that are enjoyable? 

On the other hand, money is also important. There can be little happiness for a person who does not have enough money. 

For a person to enjoy life he certainly needs money and if it means of obtaining money is somewhat unpleasant- like working in a mortuary, can we say that he should abandon his job and seek a job that he enjoy? An immediate difficulty that comes to mind would be that if all of us seek only jobs that are enjoyable, there are jobs that no one will find enjoyable and no one would like to do these. There certainly are jobs that no one can enjoy doing.
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Part 2: Balancing Money & Happiness (Persuasive)

A good suggestion could be that we should learn how to enjoy what we are doing, rather than look for what we would enjoy doing. It should be easy to love a job that gives you a lot of money. One could think of all the pleasure one could have and realize that it is the job that makes these possible and from there see that the job is enjoyable after all.

Psychologists tell us that what gives us pleasure is a matter of programming. We have been programmed to listen to a certain type of music; like certain foods and even people. If this is true that it would be possible to programme ourselves to enjoy our jobs.

Hence we could say that though it is true that enjoying a job is more important than money, it would be wonderful if we enjoyed the job and earned a lot of money from it. Enjoying ourselves is a matter of attitude: we can find enjoyment anywhere if we look hard enough. Life is short, so why don't we earn a great fortune and live a pleasant life out of it. Our lives is in our own hand:)

Here's a song to lighten up your day:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM