<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>~ Adapted from: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century</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>
<p>Nowadays, people work for the sole purpose of getting a well paid job rather than working for satisfaction or pleasure. What they do not realise is that it is more important to do work that they find fulfilling because they become fully content this way. Examples from literature corroborate this truth.</p>
<p>In Mick Harvey's Good Things in Life, the main character of the novel, Daniel Foreman's experience shows that it is more important to do work that brings satisfaction. Daniel had a job as a banker which paid very well. He was able to provide comfortably for his family through his income. One would think he had a perfect life but in fact he had the opposite. He despised his job so much because it required him to work terribly long hours a day. He never had time to spend with his family and his children barely saw him because he left home early and came back long after they were asleep and his marriage was basically in shambles. To make matters worse, the bank he was working at merged with another bank and they had to lay off some workers. Unfortunately, he was one of those people that they laid off. After that, he tried to get jobs elsewhere but he couldn't find any well paying job.</p>
<p>Eventually, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming an art teacher and started teaching at the local elementary school. The job did not pay as much as his previous job but he loved it so much. It brought him so much joy and happiness and contentment (things money cannot buy). He was able to fix his marriage and have time for his kids as well. Daniel realised that it was more essential to do work that he finds fulfilling rather than one that pays well. </p>
<p>In short, we should always realise that money is not everything. A job that provides a lot of money can definitely make life better but it cannot buy the most important things we hold dear to our hearts like love, true happiness, good health and satisfaction. </p>
<p>**It may seem short but it actually isn't. I wrote it on ruled paper similar to the ones given on the SAT and it was more than one and a half of the two pages..</p>