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A few of us are fortunate enough to more or less choose our jobs and careers. We pursue advanced degrees, take time off after college or grad school, spend time building our professional networks, and wait for our ideal jobs to come around. Perhaps we are lucky enough to have financial support from family while we apply for fellowships, volunteer abroad, start businesses, or build nonprofits.
Most of us aren’t so fortunate. We depend on a steady income to pay the bills. Maybe we get to do one or two of the aforementioned, soul-searching activities as young people, but the question of money is always there.
We balance our own happiness and job satisfaction with financial obligations to ourselves and others—and needless to say, societal expectations about what kind of work we should be doing.