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I'm lacking by 2 topics, time to...

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Okay. The topic for this last week's

Is on the importance of money and happiness.

Our dear Nadnut (or rather her lovely classmate Angeline) questions us all:

Would you rather...

1. Be working in a high paying job but you'll be working horrible hours, faced with bitchy and demanding clients and you'll be extremely stressed?

Or

2. A below average paying job but you'll be able to knock off on time and you're not stressed at all and you actually will have a social life?

This is considerably tricky...

First of all, how exactly would you define having a social life to begin with? Can having a "social life" be held in tie with "happiness"? Does social life merely means hanging out with your friends and so on so forth?

Okay. I don't think I have a social life, and I don't exactly have a high paying job either. I'm currently working from 9am to 6pm (not for long though), meet Teddybear or hang out with my colleague/friends (rarely), and go home to sleep.

In summary, I'm kinda having a below average paying job *blah, blah, blah* and have not much of a social life either.

Damn... This makes me sound rather pathetic. Oh well.

Anyway.

At my current stage in life, I think I would rather...

1. Be working in a high paying job but working horrible hours, faced with bitchy and demanding clients and feel extremely stressed.

Then

2. Have a below average paying job but able to knock off on time and not feel stressed at all and actually have a social life.

You only have that kinda energy when you're young. I don't exactly have a family right now (as in kids), and if I do, I would also want them to have a good life (material and all).

So yeah...

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My choice for now.

When I actually have the capability to support my family and myself, I would rather...

2. Have a below average paying job but able to knock off on time and not feel stressed at all and actually have a social life!

Then

1. Be working in a high paying job but working horrible hours, faced with bitchy and demanding clients and feel extremely stressed.

(In fact, if possible, I wouldn't even want to work at all. And if I do, it'd be because I have nothing better to do at home.)

Having a family means having to sacrifice. I seriously don't want my kids to tell me, "mummy why John's parents can buy anything he wants but we cannot buy anything at all."

(The name John just suddenly pop into my head. Probably because a friend John was able to buy a darn couple-of-thousand-dollar expensive watch, which I totally envy.)

And yes, I expect to have kids. And by saying that I have to consider for their future!

The cost of living, in the world, is constantly rising - education, food... EVERYTHING! How can you ever survive with a below average paying job and be happy?

Even if you have a "social life", as in having friends to go out with, you basically can't go anywhere, anyway. When you're broke, you stay at home (if you have a home to begin with). So what about social life?

The world is what it is. If you can't afford anything, do you think you'd be happy?

Yes. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can make your life a whole lot easier.

Perhaps if the options were average paying job and high paying job, my take would be a whole lot different.