If you knew you could take a job that was low stress and very gratifying, but only paid $180k/year, would you take it?

Oh my gosh, yes. I wouldn't even know what to do with all that money, and I would love if my job was personally gratifying and low-stress.

Thankfully, the situation you've described will almost certainly be the case for me in 8-10 years.

Why, yes. In fact, I already took it. So keep looking.

There's no way I could work for that little. I need the pressure of a high salary and debilitating hours to inspire me to work at all. A lax job like that sounds like unemployment to me and I'd be embarrassed to be such a leech when I can obviously do more work for more money and pay for my less accomplished brothers and sisters. It's my honor to subsidize the less fortunate.

No such job could exist for me. You see, I am an honest person. As such, I would find it incredibly stressful to have to cheat people for a living. And if you're making getting rich (i.e. making $180k/yr), you are cheating people. There's no way around it. You are cheating customers by selling a product at a higher price than necessary. You are cheating the competition by taking some shortcut. You are doing something that any moral person would find stressful.

Mo money mo problems. What do you do in your spare time, race yachts! I hope you at least give to charity.

dssdsd wrote:

This is a really good job. Low stress, flexible scheduling, good vacation, and the work is very personally gratifying. But it only pays $180k/year. Would you take it?

No, I have a teaching job. I get paid lots for doing essentially nothing for >=3 months out of each year.

I don't want to cheat wrote:

No such job could exist for me. You see, I am an honest person. As such, I would find it incredibly stressful to have to cheat people for a living. And if you're making getting rich (i.e. making $180k/yr), you are cheating people. There's no way around it. You are cheating customers by selling a product at a higher price than necessary. You are cheating the competition by taking some shortcut. You are doing something that any moral person would find stressful.

Tired of working at the factory, huh?

You have serious issues with money and your own self-worth. It's not all that hard to make that much selling professional services at market-based prices. And how could it be cheating when clients are free to shop around and make choices based on price and quality? You have a poverty mentality.

lol

I'd take it. But then I wouldn't make myself look like a big headed jackass by bragging about how I can make about four times the average person's salary without having to break a sweat. So, no, you shouldn't take the job. Leave it for someone who won't dwell on how they're "only" making 180 grand a year.

You could sell a very useful product at a very fair price to a ton of people - and still make 180k a year with no moral qualms. I am guessing the reason you are so envious about money is that your brain can't handle ideas like this, so it limits your earning potential.

Smismard,

"It's not all that hard to make that much selling professional services at market-based prices. And how could it be cheating when clients are free to shop around and make choices based on price and quality?"

Of course, it's not cheating, but if they can shop around, you can't count on them coming to you and up goes the stress. Either that or you are doing something like low level patent law and gratification goes out the window.

I get paid 250k a year to do something I really really love but may be only able to enjoy for another few years, but I think I would take 180 if I knew I had it every year for the next 20.

Ooh, I am so impressed.

dssdsd wrote:

This is a really good job. Low stress, flexible scheduling, good vacation, and the work is very personally gratifying. But it only pays $180k/year. Would you take it?

I would gladly accept ANY job paying 180k per year. That's like The One Percent money right there.

You're basically describing my current job. I took it and I've enjoyed it while going through some big life changes (kids) but now I'm bored with it and looking for something more, I guess you could say, high-stress.

2/10. Should be a 0/10 but you actually got some responses.

I get paid around that for a gratifying, low-stress job. I came from a high-paying, stressful job in finance - when you get accustomed to a certain lifestyle and live in an expensive city, 180k doesn't seem like very much but you learn to adjust.

Only $180k/year? Absolutely not. How would I feed myself?