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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I can tell you that the difference between having a job that you abhor and a job that you love is so incredibly important to your mental state. Even though it's only 40 hours of the 168 in a week, it's probably neck and neck with "personal relationships/family" in terms of things we stress out over. Third, for me, of course, is lack of experience on the Devils blue line. 
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I totally agree. For me, I just finished my last internship semester and I graduate in April, and I have some career decisions to make. I've analyzed (being a good ol' nerd) every aspect of what kind of job I'm looking for, from industry to corporate structure) - I've projected where I want to be in 25 years and worked backwords, et al.
Money used to be something that I thought I valued. However, it doesn't seem to make sense to me to drag your feet through life and chase after a bigger paycheck that ultimately increases your tax's and expenses, and at the end of the day... your working harder, you have a higher status, but you could have been just as happy at half the salary and less expectations. Life's too short to chase my tail around like that. Obviously, I'm not saying this is anyone in specific here, but I'd love to see what people's mentality are in their jobs as I (somewhat) change my perspective of what my career is going to be about.
For me, I'm looking for this:
- enjoy my job. Not dread going to work in the morning, being productive and contributing. Being energetic at the end of the day.
- I don't value security at all.
- I don't want to work for money, but I'd still like to be rich.