Poll of the Day > Would you take a job you love for minimum wage or a job you hate for 100K a year

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what say you?
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Someone with that option and attitude isn't going to reproduce, so I'd assume the answers were a bit telling here. Then again they might just get government assistance and section 8, but why even have babby at that point. It's almost cruel.

You want a wife and family? Deal with the job. Anything gets easier the more you do it.
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Hate in what way? Some issues can be overcome, others not.

Does the minimum wage job have a career path for a better eventual wage?
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GrimCyclone posted...

You want a wife and family? Deal with the job.

or have the wife get a 100K job :P
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Hate in what way? Some issues can be overcome, others not.

Hell if I know, some people hate different things, use ur imagination.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Does the minimum wage job have a career path for a better eventual wage?

no.
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A job I hate, gimme money! - Simply because doing a job I love with eventually turn into something I hate and I'd be stuck on minimum wage. I mean too much of a good thing eventually becomes boring.
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darcandkharg31 posted...

what say you?

Speaking from my current situation in a fairly well paid but awful job, I'll take a better quality of life with lower pay. You can always make money elsewhere but you can't make your daily life magically suck less.
Inb4 "but muh family and muh responsibilities" blah blah...if you're happier, they'll be happier and your entire family will be better off for it.
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GrimCyclone posted...

You want a wife and family? Deal with the job. Anything gets easier the more you do it.

or....your wife could work too. or hell, if she makes more then you maybe she keeps her job and you stay at home and take care of the kids.
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Happiness doesn't pay the bills unfortunately. Minimum wage won't get you much of anything here.

Personally, the hated job. It would make the remaining 16 hours of the day - and weekends - and vacations - and benefits - worth it.
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Depends on how much I have to work.
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I already hate my job for good money, so I've made that choice. But I work to live, not live to work.

And I've never found a job I've always enjoyed. Even the ones I consider 'good' I still had trouble getting up for in the morning.
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I've worked jobs I hated for minimum wage. Jobs are not always going to be enjoyable. And most jobs I'd love wouldn't really pay minimum wage honestly.
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What's the point of being rich if you live 90% of your life in a box anyway?

Full time office job is my "worst job ever".
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The 100k easily, since minimum isn't a liveable wage.
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Which minimum wage? Federal or state?

shadowsword87 posted...

Which minimum wage? Federal or state?

whichever's more.
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im not really sure it'd be a whole lot of fun being a musician making minimum wage >_>
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A job I love for less money. I don't even need or have one right now, but I'd accept something interesting if I stumbled upon it.
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My dream job is something like, Being a YT gamer (Like Pewdiepie) or being a Video Game reviewer or something along those lines, soooo... If I had that job I'd be ok with it even without getting 100K a year. I already don't make 100K a year & I'm relatively happy, if I'm given the the choice to have my dream job why would I turn that down for doing something I hate? What good is money if I'm stuck in a coal mine all day or something? (A job I would hate: Coal miner)
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I'd love to be in a job I enjoy, but minimum wage is not going to work.
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I love a job with perks. So free food, housing, lots of breaks, video games, and vacation time
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My dream job is living off the grid, but the elite made that illegal too.
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A job I love where I likely cannot afford a halfway decent life? I'd be so miserable and stressed outside of work from having to scrape by, never being able to afford much, maybe not even healthcare...

Whereas a job I hate making that kind of money, I can afford a decent house, car, vacations, leisure, etc. My life outside of work would be happy, and that would make up for being miserable at work.

Not saying the money would solve all of my problems, but it would be much better than the alternative.
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Job I hate for 100k. Minimum wage they work you too death to earn those couple of dollars. Rather have chairs,"productivity walks", Facebook browsing, meetings to sit around in, and for an hour maybe do some shit related to my actual job.

GrimCyclone posted...

Anything gets easier the more you do it.

This is definitely not always true.
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Work to live not live to work. I may hate my job at times but then I'm quickly reminded on pay day just how awesome it is to be able to buy anything I want and not worry about bills.
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RedPixel posted...

My dream job is living off the grid, but the elite made that illegal too.

How so? Because of taxes?

I've always understood being "off the grid" as not being connected to public utilities (water, electricity, cable, internet, etc). You can certainly live that way, but if you own a piece of property you'd still have to pay taxes on it. But I don't consider paying tax as being on the grid, maybe you have a different take.

To truly be off the grid in that sense, you'd have to be homeless. But if that's what you're getting at then I agree. Laws being passed are making it increasingly difficult to be "legally" homeless in the States.
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dedbus posted...

Job I hate for 100k. Minimum wage they work you too death to earn those couple of dollars. Rather have chairs,"productivity walks", Facebook browsing, meetings to sit around in, and for an hour maybe do some shit related to my actual job.

TC said a job you hate. I would assume that means you don't get to pick a job you hate for one hour a day while you browse Facebook and what not the rest of the time.

Also, there's plenty of high-salary jobs that aren't white collar office jobs. Police officers, oil rig workers, some construction, etc. These are certainly jobs where you can't fuck off for 80% of your day.

What if you were a prominent proctologist staring at fucked up, diseased assholes all day long?
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It wouldn't be the most fulfilling but I'd take any of those where you fuck off for 80% of the day.

dedbus posted...

It wouldn't be the most fulfilling but I'd take any of those where you fuck off for 80% of the day.

Kinda missing my point. What I'm saying is, if you're setting the parameters of the job to something that's agreeable to you, that's not really a job you hate.

Maybe TC can clarify, but I would assume that what you're suggesting wouldn't qualify as a job you hate. I think TC is asking if would you take a job that you hate from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave. How much can you hate a job if you're allowed to goof off most of the day?
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The job I hate, because a) minimum wage wouldn't be enough for me to live--thus leading to a life I would hate--and b) I'd make enough money to contribute to an earlier retirement.
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Oddly, my current situation is a job I love for 100K a year, and my situation in college was a job I hated for minimum wage.

I guess I would go with the job I love. I was damn near suicidal and an overall dick when I was doing the job I hated. What is the point of 100K if you are constantly trying to kill yourself?
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Job I hate. Firstly, if it has chairs, I'll probably love it. More to the point though; save that 100K and either invest it in retirement or a family.
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there's nothing wrong with min wage
the housing bubble and 1%'ers are the real culprit
min wage is supposed to support a small family
not make you rich or middle class
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Yes but ever example you gave us rife with plenty of fucking around. If fast food was paid 100k you think all those workers migrating from the office would be huffing it? It would quickly normalize into water coolers and burger board meetings on the store level and close at 5.

most of the managers at my job work 10 hours a day 5 days a week for what I consider to be very little pay
it's more then min wage but it certainly isn't anything to brag about
i'd rather make 200$ less then work an extra eight hours a week
and it's not like there's a lot of money in it, you still have to pay to keep the place open, and the truck drivers and for the food
it's not a lucrative business model unless you own the franchise and even that takes several years of success before you're filthy rich
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I think you're missing the point of the topic, on top of the point I'm trying to make. But it's not my topic so I can't say for certain.

I'm not going to belabor the point, though. You do you.
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Dikitain posted...

Oddly, my current situation is a job I love for 100K a year, and my situation in college was a job I hated for minimum wage.

I guess I would go with the job I love. I was damn near suicidal and an overall dick when I was doing the job I hated. What is the point of 100K if you are constantly trying to kill yourself?

Was the job what was making you suicidal though? Or were there other factors?

I only ask because I imagine living in near-poverty would probably be pretty depressing, and your job might become the one bright spot in your day, as opposed to the other way around.
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Being happy is a right every working man should have
working 40 hours a week should get you the bare neccesaties

not being allowed to work part time because you can't afford anything is like justifying slavery, working 40 hours a week and not having a way out is justifying slavery

tl;dr health, real estate and inflation are a clusterf*** i do not blame min wage jobs I blame the greed that comes with capitalism
watch oliver stone's inside job to see how nonsensical capitalism is
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At least with a high-paying job I hate, I can look forward to my time off and enjoy it better.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

there's nothing wrong with min wage
the housing bubble and 1%'ers are the real culprit
min wage is supposed to support a small family
not make you rich or middle class

At some point you have to live in reality and look out for your future. Ideology aside, mother fuckers need to eat, mother fuckers want houses, and mother fuckers want things that minimum wage can't buy.
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but that money can buy

the housing bubble was caused when investors took money that people owed to them
the money didn't even exist they gave themselves 2.5billion dollar bonus'
and price of housing doubled over a couple years
my rents bought a house for 100k
in the 80's 200k then they started stealing money now 400k for a house
why should min wage go up ever, if you work 40 hours you're entitled to live, breathe, eat and have shelter, shelter is a bare necessity not a luxury
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If you think people on minimum wage could afford to buy a house before the housing bubble, I can assure you that it was highly improbable.

Maybe in podunk Kansas or something, but not anywhere near a metropolitan center.
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100k job you hate

You'll hate something about the job you love, like only making minimum wage

It's one of the worst realizations ever... normal folk who don't strike gold on some lottery winnings are gonna dislike something about their job unless they deal with a shit ton of bull shit/crappy jobs to get what they find is their "ideal job" (basically a job where you feel happy most of the time and the bs is so minimal in comparison you don't take it into consideration as much)
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@mastermix3000 Just thought you should know, & I really don't wanna be offense or anything, but I couldn't help notice your signature:

"RIP in peace Junpei 6/1/17 :("

You do realize RIP stands for "rest in peace" right? By saying "RIP in peace"... you see were I'm going with this?
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

@mastermix3000 Just thought you should know, & I really don't wanna be offense or anything, but I couldn't help notice your signature:

"RIP in peace Junpei 6/1/17 :("

You do realize RIP stands for "rest in peace" right? By saying "RIP in peace"... you see were I'm going with this?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rip-in-peace

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R.I.P in Peace” is an online slang expression marked by its redundant phrasing which can be used to commemorate an individual who has either passed away or some who has been a target of an Internet death hoax. The phrase is often cited as an example of the “redundant acronym syndrome syndrome (RAS syndrome).

Origin
The earliest known use of the phrase “RIP in peace” was posted in a thread titled “RIP in Peace Shane Cross” by Newgrounds Forums[3] member Glue-Sniffer on May 12th, 2007, which lamented the death of professional skateboarder Shane Cross.

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@mastermix3000 So... so you specifically used bad grammer? For what reason? When I saw your Sig, in my head I read "Rest in peace in peace" why didn't you just use RIP & leave out the "in peace" part? Is this some kind of elaborate internet joke I'm not aware of? 0_0
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Both jobs gimme that money
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