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If you view a job as just a job, and find meaning in other things in life, optimizing for TC seems incredibly rational. The problem is some people doing that do

• Frost1x 5y ago
  While I agree you have to also consider WLB and not TC alone. Your actual pay rate for how much you have to actually work are very important. $1 million/yr sounds nice but if you need to put in 100 or 110 hours a week to do it, it may not be as alluring. So TC is important in terms of magnitude and what that alots you but the actual pay rate and total magnitude of work are critical in this perspective. This is basically my perspective, although I factor in the value of my time doing the actual work as well. Even with great WLB and very high TC, if you're working 25 hours a week doing miserable stuff... thats 25 hours of your life spent in misery. Would rather that be enjoyable if possible if all other things can be kept constant.
• jseban 5y ago
  Yeah and this is a perfectly healthy and normal view to have, which really should be the default considering that it really is what the definition of a job is. What is strange is to actually assign other vague emotional needs to a job which doesn't say anything about that in the definition. Which choice will be the more successful here is pretty obvious to me. Any time you start by re-defining something according to your own fantasies, you will probably be disappointed.