> I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars. The only way to win at society's collective pissing contest is to opt out. I believe that this is t

> I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars. The only way to win at society's collective pissing contest is to opt out. I believe that this is the secret of work: find the work that gives you more satisfaction than pain, and become the very best you can at it. The money will follow, and it will no longer control you. What controls you now is a sort of purpose that you find through your work. Mind you, it doesn't negate the fact that there will be unpleasant/unsexy things to do at work. (That is one reason why you're getting paid for it, after all.) And it may even make it harder, as you now have a greater emotional involvement in your work. Purposelessness will suck you dry. I think people instinctively know this when they choose salary over happiness, they just believe it to be inevitable.