Your Calling vs. Easy and Fun

[Godwynn]

Gimme the loot. The fun/easy/money.

 

[Pyrite]

Calling.

All the kids I've seen grow up too wealthy just spoiled.

 

[vbraun]

I would choose the harder of the two.

 

[Drewcifer]

When I was younger I would have gone for easy, fun and money. Now that I have actually found and had a degree of success with my calling it is otherwise.

Fun and money are nice but slightly superficial. It is the difficult things that are the ones most worth doing, succeeding at these is where true satisfaction comes from.

 

[Archbob]

If something is fun for me to work on and I can make lots of money on the side, then I think it is my calling.

 

[JoeM]

I would choose my calling. I wouldn't be able to truly enjoy my "fun" if I knew that I couldn't pursue what I truly cared about.

Five times what I earn now, and I could hire a bunch of other people to pursue what I care about...whilst I play golf!

 

[Dann]

Calling.

All the kids I've seen grow up too wealthy just spoiled.

Just because you're rich doesn't mean your kids have to grow up rich, spoiled brats.

You can always disinherit them while they're still in primary school.

 

[Hornblower]

It's a no brainer. Fun and easy money as a first career mean you can retire early and take up your calling as a mature and financially secure member of society as your second career.
These days most people in the western world with have 3 career changes over the course of their working lives.

 

[Donovan Zoi]

Knowing the way genies operate, I would have to choose "easy and fun" since the terms are more accurately spelled out. If I were to choose my calling, there's much more risk involved. After all, I may think that I am great songwriter, while the genie knows that my most reliable trait is my ability to categorize my CDs. I am not about to take that chance.

 

[Rambuchan]

It's a no brainer. Fun and easy money as a first career mean you can retire early and take up your calling as a mature and financially secure member of society as your second career.
These days most people in the western world with have 3 career changes over the course of their working lives.

True say, on many counts. Thing is, many choose to give their youthful years over to chasing their calling.