Quote Originally Posted by Dr Unne
It's possible to get a job you enjoy for reasons other than money. You can be a doctor because you like to help people. You can dig ditches for a living because you like how it keeps you in shape physically. Getting you money is the one thing all jobs have in common, so it's hard for money to be the key motivation for choosing one job over another, so far as I know. Maybe other people value money more than I do though. I'd rather do a fun job for little money than a terrible job for tons of money.
Indeed. The career I have chosen now involves making much less money, but I think I will enjoy it a lot more than being an engineer. Getting two months off every summer is never a bad thing.