Shouldn’t income drive a career just as much, or more than passion?

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If you view your life in monetary and financial realities then your right, but there are millions of unhappy people tredging away at the sorry ass job that they’ve got, their bitter and hateful and the only thing keeping them there in that unbearable situation is the money they make from it, but too late do they realize ‘they won’t be able to take it with them’ thus their destroying their humanity by toiling and hating what their doing and in the end are only providing someone else with their hard earned idol. Loving your job, loving what you do is wealth in itself.. It can keep you healthy, optimistic and happy… in their mind, the money is merely the cherry on top… And when they die, they leave just enough so that their heirs can experience life as it should be. As far as the brass ring goes, there are hundreds of thousands of suits out there who have concured their own challenge, but they had to step over millions who was also striving for the big banana, to get to where they are.. That’s what’s called ‘B’ness’.

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