Choose a career of passion or choose a high-paying career?

A concern of many young people today is choosing a career they love but with low income, or choosing a career they don't like but with high income?

Many years ago, American journalist Srully Blotnick (1941-2004) conducted a study of 1,500 people. They were divided into two groups: Those in Group A said they would pursue money first and do what they really wanted later. There were 1,245 people in this group. And 255 people in Group B said they would pursue their interests first, believing that money would come later.

20 years later, there were 101 millionaires out of 1,500 people surveyed. Only 1 millionaire came from Group A – the group that pursued money first! The remaining 100 millionaires came from Group B, the group that said they would pursue their passion first and money later.

Similarly, British consultant Richard Koch, author of the famous book series on the 80/20 principle, once shared in the book “Living the 80/20 Way” (Tre Publishing House) that if he divided his friends into two groups: one group consisted of people who chose jobs they loved, the other group consisted of people who worked for money and success, the first group on average made more money. People who worked for fun and fulfillment rather than money also tended to make more money.

From the two stories above, you must have learned your lesson.

But you may still wonder: Why is that? Well, consultant Richard Koch explains this in another book of his, “The 80/20 Principle” (Tre Publishing House): If you like doing something, you have a better chance of doing it well. You have a better chance of doing it than doing something you don’t like. If you do something well, you can create something that satisfies others.

If you make other people happy, they will often pay you more. And since most people do things they don't enjoy and therefore can't do as well as you, you'll be able to earn more than the norm in your industry.

If you are doing a job that you don't like but pays well now, you may achieve your goal of having a lot of money in the short term, but in the long term you will suffer the consequences.

American leadership expert John C. Maxwell asserts that one of the main causes of debilitating stress in people's lives is doing work they don't like.

In the play “The Lower Depths”, which is considered the most famous by the great writer of Russian literature Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), there is a line that says: “When work is easy, life is fun. When work is a duty, life is like prison”.

“When work is pleasant, life is pleasant” - Maxim Gorky.

I think that doing what you love may not make you as much money as a high-paying job at first. But in the long run, doing what you love will make you an expert in your field. And as an expert, people will come to you to help solve problems they don’t have a solution for, and the person who provides solutions to others will certainly make money!

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