a secure job or more exploration?

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<p>let's say you're in this situation, not me... just tell me what you would do. </p>

<p>let's say you're in college and holding a pretty stable job. it's a government job so it's quite secure.. you most likely won't get fired unless you screw up terribly bad. it's quite relaxing too.. you're only required to work 35 hr/wk, but if you want more hours, you can do that too.. even as "full time", and you never have to bring home any work. however, you don't particularly care for the job.. it's not exactly your dream job... and you find the relaxation part has made you lazy. it's not that rewarding, and unless you get a masters, you'll never get paid more than 40k/year. would you be content with doing this your whole life... or would you be like, screw all this security, i'm going to do something exciting with myself. all depends on opinion, i guess. would you play it safe and have a secure income flowing in that isn't so high... or would you take a risk at something you love? but what if you're not even sure what else you want to do with yourself? would you continue exploring, or just play it safe? </p>

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<p>i have this option laying in front of me, and i'm thinking, it's pretty sweet... to be set your whole life. but i'm getting bored of it... and it's making me so lazy, i don't even want to go to work. i guess i'm one of those people that, if you work me up, i can be so diligent and get a lot of things done.. but if you give me all this free time and the chance to be lazy, i can get ridiculously lazy. and in the long run, i would hate to be lazy.</p>

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<p>I'll be perfectly honest with you. Right now with the economy like it is and with job security so shaky, I would stay with the secure stable job for the time being. I would hate to leave it and then be able to find a job for months. Now thats not to say that you can not look for another job while you are at this one. I would just be careful that you have another secure stable job before you leave this one.</p>

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<p>if you don't have something else lined up, then you will be quitting your job and you will have nothing, and not even a direction with which to take the rest of your life (as you admitted).</p>

<p>You are basically asking if you should quit to quit... to which I think the answer is 'no'</p>

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<p>well if theres nothing else to do i would keep it... unless your parents dont mind paying for you to do notingi guess</p>

<p>you should quit at some point because 40k a year is pretty dang terrible for the rest of your life. I think even people with a high school degree gets paid more than that =_=;;; after awhile. keep it until you see another opportunity or start sending out your resumes.. if you get another job then by all means quit</p>

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<p>it seems as if you have a lot of free time with your current job since you keep mentioning how relaxed and unstressful it is. i would use this time to explore your passions, but keep the job until you have something else stable that you're more passionate about. but DEFINETELY use the time you're not working to explore.</p>