(March 31, 2014 at 1:18 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: So, I just started a job with a Fortune 200 company, great benefits, great support, potentially great money. But it is commission based sales and service support. (Selling Life Insurance, annuities, mutual funds, rolling over IRAs, etc.)
I also just got offered a job in the career field that I want (tech) for less money but it's guaranteed(salary rather than commission), not exactly the job I want, (it's the company that I really want to work for, still a Fortune 500 company) but still great benefits.
In my place, would you take the job with better potential money (I'd like to start a family soon) but more stress (sales), or the job in the field that I like, even if the actual work I'd be doing now is less rewarding but the pay is still decent?
I am firmly impaled on the fence.
Good question!
I'm not going to give any advice. I'm just going to provide you with examples.
I have two friends who have messed up their family lives by giving in to work demands and stress.
One is a high ranking boss at a global spedition firm. It took him about ten years to loose his wife and ruin his relationship with his children.
We were at a party once and both of us were pretty drunk. He had a mini-breakdown and told me it was his job that killed the love between him and his wife. He also said his children don't give a shit about him because he was never really there.
I used to be a little obsessed with making money, impressing my boss and co-workers and so on. But over time I began to understand that it made me feel like crap. I didn't even have time to enjoy all the money I made because I was working too much, and when I was free I spent too much time worrying about work.
