(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.
Do what you enjoy, you'll do a better job and it won't feel like a struggle to get to work in the morning.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
