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Some people might say that high salary risky job should be preferable to low salary secure job. However, in my opinion, low salary secure job is better thatn high salary risky job. There is two reasons. Happiness does not come from money and health is one of the best value in our life.
To begin with, money cannot be an ultimate destination or purpose of our life. Money is worthless as itself. It can have value when it makes us available to purchase something such as electronics, clothes, services and so on, not by itself. Albeit money can be located on the route to hapiness, it is not a perfect tool for giving people relish. Nonetheless, high salary risky job as investment bankers, consultants in large consulting firms, etc. generally requires long-time duty to work to laborers. Although it can endow good salary for workers, the workers may not have much time to spend the money and it renders money useless. Suppose that you earn a million dollars per month but you are not capable to use it because you are too occupied. Would it be possible to be happy? It is highly doubtful. For example I have a friend who used to work in financial market. He worked 14 hours a day without holiday for 3 years and finally he could get salary of $ 300,000 per year. yet suddenly, he realized that if he does not have any time to use that much money, he does not need to posess money so he quitted his job and decided to travel around the world.
Secondly, since high salary risky job usually demands workers to labor overnight without sleep , it can deteriorate our health and the importance of health care should not come second place. If we get a cancer or a tumor in brain, all the money we earned devoting our life in 20's to workplace would be wasted at the hospital. Furthermore, as the the meaning of 'risky' implies, workers should always take risk and they would be nervous usually during the worktime. It can worsens their health. For example, in korea, there was a man who had been called as royal kim in the financial market because his achievement was so outstanding. He worked 14~20 hours a day and he earned maybe around 3 million per year. Yet eventually owing to fatigue, the stroke came to him and he terminated his life in his 40's.
To sum up, if we do not have time to use money, high salary risky job is valueless in our life. Moreover, staying in health should be prioritized to any other value.
In this regard, I firmly hold that low salary secure job is more preferable than high salary risky job. |