What's more important to you: money or having a life?

[ringmastery]

If given the choice, would you take up a job that pays a lot of money with the trade-off being that you would have to work very hard with routine 60+ hour weeks and little time for a social life?

or.

would you choose a job that allows you a middle class lifestyle but nothing more where you only work 40 hours a week?

[Speck Tater]

1. I work only to fund my off-work activities.

In this day and age investing your identity in a job that might be downsized or outsourced next week is foolish. My identity is invested in who I am after I leave work each day.

[Endangered Specie]

2. Can I get a life in the process of making the money?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. B.

Right now, even middle-class sounds good.

[Don_G]

4. On One Hand, I Got A Lot Of Money

On the other, I'm hoping to marry a woman that means a lot to me on top of gaining the respect of a cat.

[JaySherman]

5. A life. There's more to life than working.

I don't understand people who work 60 hours a week just for a bigger SUV. I had a neighbor like this. Me, I want to put in my 8 hours a day and get out.

[Deja Q]

6. Life

Even with the way corporate america is re-engineering things, I'd rather work 40 hours at poverty. Of course, I wouldn't be able to buy anything... but corporate america wants it both ways and they're not going to get it both ways in the end.

[DIKB]

7. Life definitely

I'm feeling the crunch from working all the time and not having one, I'd prefer the opposite.

[SarahB]

8. Life

[skjpm]

9. I am 40+ and make between $15 and 18,000 a year

I work part-time as a community college teacher and a bookseller. I love both my jobs and the immense amount of free time. Every move up in either of these jobs has ended up in increased tension and stress. Also, I am free to take care of my elderly mother and do daycare for my friends'8-year old kid. (They both work full-time.) The other day, he got a hole-in-one at mini-golf and they announced his name over the loudspeaker. Had I been at work, I would have missed his little moment of pure joy.

If I ever make more money, I plan for it to come from sales of my best-selling book or the original cast album of my musical. But I don't think I want more work.

[Philosophy]

10. I'm poor plus I have no life

I'm in huge debt so I have to work a lot to earn lots of money, but I don't get to use any of it to have a life.

[Nikia]

11. Life

I grew up multiclassed. It sucks to be poor as in can't pay bills and having to be very careful about what you buy to eat if you are going to have enough to eat. I would take a part time job so that I wouldn't have to worry about eating if it came to that. A middle class lifestyle with enough time to enjoy it is a good life. Having a lot of things is meaningless. Greed is a vicious cycle. Sacraficing life for it is stupid.

[LondonAmerican]

12. A life