Looong time ago, as a recent graduate I had my ideal job doing research at the university, It was challenging, lots of fun and actually paid quite good.. (~$60K

Looong time ago, as a recent graduate I had my ideal job doing research at the university, It was challenging, lots of fun and actually paid quite good.. (~$60K from 20 years ago) then I got the offer to join a new hot .COM, doing a boring, meaningless (technical sales support) job for four years and then not have to work for the rest of my life! Two years after, with close to a million bucks on stock options, the whole market crashed and left me (Financially) about where I would he been, had I not left at all.. Would I do it again? Sure!.. Why? The experience made me much more marketable for higher paid positions from there on.. Work is work.. Not life. Go to work to make money, so then you can get out of work and do what ever you truly love to do..