Keep in mind that money, like the job, is only a means.
I hate to hear when people say things such as “money isn’t worth your life”, and then spend all of their free time on activism. Those $$$ can HELP your cause. So use them for it.
“I wouldn’t sell my soul and become a [Insert Profession Here]. There are just too many things more important, so I’ll spend all of my free time trying to raise money to feed starving children.”
DUH!
You are in the wrong hood dood… Try the theology line…Religion is always more useful at justifying injustice than philosophy… As long as you mouth the mumbo jumbo you can do just about anything… But that is an old excuse… Dr. Joseph Mengle used that one, but then most of the inmates who were shoveling their fellows into the ovens said the same… We all justify, so we all cooperate in our own destruction, when we could do so much the better by becoming a human impediment to evil…Who on earth isn’t a parent or a child???
To endure injustice in the form of wages to help others endure worse injustice is not bad… Employing injustice with a goal of ending injustice is corrupting and destructive… People should not work against injustice, or organize against injustice, but become an impediment to it, and live againt injustice… We all need justice all the time, and should demand it, but if you demand it all the time you would make enemies everywhere, and, at least in this land seem the hypocrite because we have not ever been apart from injustice, so we are its children, and should mend our ways rather than teaching perfection… Just don’t do it… Just don’t acccept it… And most of all; don’t shet yourself… This country is behind a lot of, for lack of a better word, Evil, which I do not take as a form, so much as an effect… One of our biggest exports is death, and our next is exploitation, and another is pollution, and another is ignorance… I don’t think we have to fix the world… I think we should try to fix us… And if you recognize how dollars play into that, the way wealth corrupts, and how we use money to corrupt foreign leaders so we can abuse their people, then you begin to look at dead presidents as so much death…
Unless you are in trouble with the law (or your parents), no one forces you to work for wages. So IF they are an injustice, then anyone who voluntarily works for wages has voluntarily chosen injustice.
But I am one of those people who realize that wages are not an injustice.
I currently make phone calls all day doing market research. “high my name is chris, would you be interested in wasting your time doing a survey that will never benifit you?”
in fact, my surveys benifit coorporate america. My job is immoral in my eyes.
But i do it. Ido it because i need money. How i get the money should not be related to how i will use the money. If the question you asked is getting at if you think working an unfufilling job is worth it or not, sometimes you have to start at the bottom before you can earn fufillment.
I’m saving up money so i can afford a course which will allow me to teach english over seas, which is the job i want to do.
RIght now work is a means to an end, but i don’t really have any big problems in justifying my current means.
Good luck, Wonderer… and I hope you find yourself exactly where you want to be.
And it sounds like it will be fun…and the traveling too…
Would I work somewhere solely for the money? Yes.
Do I work somewhere solely for the money? Yes.
Thanks. Traveling is actually my goal, i want the teaching english job because it entails extensive travel, with pay. I’m currently learning chinese, i take 2 classes a week.
i figure if I travel for 20 years collecting languages and experience (which i wadger would be incredibly enjoyable), i should then be able to decide which is the happiest way to retire my life.
Zài-jàn! (Goodbye 
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Now why would you pretend to misinterpret a statement like that?
A child as in an individual who has not yet attained the age of eighteen.
Money is not everything! I love to work in my birth place only.
I was only pointing out the obvious… Even parents are children… Taking on new titles does not mean we lose the old ones…Primitives had rites of passage to draw a distinct line between adulthood and childhood, and all we have is marriage; but it is not a matter of age, or ritual; because the people we are is all the people we have been…
How do you call that work…It doesn’t pay anything and it is worth everything…
Bummer for you… What is your product besides resignation???
equities, debt instruments, etc.
Oh!.. Just your average implements of torture… Congratulations on having a life… Now all you need is a soul…
Fat chance of getting one of those anytime soon…