I used to teach and I loved it other than the low pay. I then took a look at what life I wanted in my future and realized for me, what was important was the typ

I used to teach and I loved it other than the low pay. I then took a look at what life I wanted in my future and realized for me, what was important was the type of life I wanted overall. I want to be able to afford life's emergencies, I want to be able to not stress about money. I want to have a schedule that is flexible and where my employer trusts me to do my job like an adult. I'm now a software developer and my job isn't as exciting as teaching and nowhere near as social. But it's affording me the life I want both freedom wise and money wise. I don't think of my job as needing to be the thing I love for 8 hours a day. It's a thing I do for 8 hours a day that I like that then gives me a stress free 16 hours a day afterwards. It's a holistic thing.