Work for money - Or for what makes you happy?

Do you work for money that you need to pay bills? What bills? For items that you need or want? A home to live in is understandable, but is working for money worth the home you live in?

Are you sacrificing your happiness doing work that is utterly depressing? What is work that is satisfying? Do you know what you want to do?

If you don’t know what makes you happy then you simply need to work. If you know what makes you happy you still need to work, but you have a more difficult situation. When a person knows what they want to do, and is forced by bills to do something else, a controversy exists.

There is no way to argue that work is unnecessary and I am in no way suggesting that. But how can someone that knows what they want to do be expected to do something unrelated and be happy. Is is wrong to be miserable at work? When a person cannot quit work because bills need to be paid, but hates the work they are doing, what is a person to do?

I have no doubt that this situation exists for many people around the world.

Happiness is a separate subject as compared to livlihood. How can people complain about happiness at work, while other people in the world are merely struggling for livlihood? When people can’t get work to feed themselves and are starving, how can other people complain that their work does not make them happy? While work may not be emotionally satisfying it does pay bills, which is much more than millions of people in the world. I think its wrong to compare a better off situation to a worse off; another way to say this is, how can a person justify working in an unsatisfying profession by comparing their situation to someone else that has no work? Is happiness necessary to sacrifice to maintain employment? Is the only justiification to work unhappily that other people in the world have no employment what so ever?