Alignment

[Rye]

Most average people aren't bribed with large sums of money. =O That's why I'm choosing to get a good career too for money. Teaching doesn't pay so well at first, but on Long Island, teachers do end up making over $100,000 if they work in good districts, like the school I went to. Though I am quite impatient, so that's why I'm thinking of pursuing my masters degree, which I need to do while I'm a teaching anyway, so keep my job in NY, in another degree other than education, so I can end up doing something in Psychology, possibly, along with teaching/tutoring! :flounder:

In any case, those are all very unlikely hypothetical situations. While I definitely would do a lot for money, which may well make me an immoral person, as those situations are so unlikely, to me, it just ends up translating into my willingness to work hard and go through a lot of degrees to make the big bugs - aka, the fact that I'm a workaholic. Which, considering the fact that I worked over 30 hours a week over the summer doing hour commutes and the like, isn't really surprising. I love money. I'm happy with myself at this point of my life. Consider Maslow's pyramid of needs. I have my safety and physical needs covered. I have love and warm friendships. I am on my way to a career. The top of the pyramid is the need to seek beauty and art and nice things, a lot of which you obtain through money. That's my reasoning, in any case. Also, I like quality, because I was raised to appreciate quality. My parents would scold me if I were to get cheap quality things. That's why my first car was expensive, unlike a lot of first cars. It's not a BMW, but it's safe and nice and won't break down, because of the quality. Quality is good.

If I didn't love money, I wouldn't bother going to college to get a good job, because I could very well see myself being happy working as a make-up artist, except for the fact that it's not a lucrative profession for the most part. =O

Srs post is srs but I'm being honest is all! Criticize if you like, but don't tell me money doesn't buy happiness. It doesn't. Sitting on a pile of money doesn't make anyone happy. But using it to get what makes me happy, like art, and the opportunity to be with the people I love, and the opportunity to advance myself makes me happy. <3