<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.</p>
<p>Most human beings spend their lives doing work they hate and work that the world does not need. It is of prime importance that you learn early what you want to do and whether or not the world needs this service. The return from your work must be the satisfaction that work brings you and the world's need of that work. Income is not money, it is satisfaction; it is creation; it is beauty.</p>
<p>Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfilling or work that pays well?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<pre><code> Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” This philosopher clearly understands human nature. He knows, in fact, that opulence cannot buy happiness, and doing what you love provides the fulfillment to enjoy life.
First of all, money cannot buy happiness. In a 2003 study titled, “Is Money Necessary for Happiness,” several psychologists aimed to discover this connection by analyzing the level of happiness among lotto winners and the rich. After testing lotto winners moments after they won, lotto winners seemed exuberant; a year later, however, lotto winners reverted to the same unhappy state prior to winning the lotto. On the contrary, the happiness of the wealthy remained nearly unchanged. Clearly, money only altered the lotto winners’ happiness levels intermittently. So, how could slaving over job you hate every day for this money make you happy? It cannot, as shown by the study. So, why not find a job you like to do? Then you can be happy. Simply put, since money only affects happiness momentarily, doing what you love will make life worth living.
Furthermore, money does make job worth working. A biography called, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” clearly depicts this. Perkins, a former well-paid chief economist, would make predictions of economic growth in third-world countries, prior to writing books. His job included making dubious, inflated predictions that were usually far from actuality. In this way, governments would accept large loans to modernize countries; but little did they know, modernization would leave the country unable to pay its debts. After seeing, first hand, how this affects the people of a nation, Perkins quit his high paying job. He mentioned in his book that he could not live with himself: he could not be happy. His job made people suffer, and he could not do something he hated. He needed to find an occupation he was passionate about, and he found writing books. Through books, he could do something he loved, and exploit the “corporatocracy” that he worked as a chief economist at the same time.
Ironically, an ancient Chinese philosopher, who lived in 500 BCE, predicted that picking a job should be independent of money. It took roughly 2500 years for science to show this, and people in modern society still make the same mistakes today such as Perkins. People follow the bill, although it will not give them happiness.
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<p>Thanks. Please be honest and I'm a bit worries since I can never make time for 3 examples. I'm open to criticism too, and any feedback to help improve my paper would be much appreciated. Oh and couldn't figure out how to get the paper to indent.</p>