Love or Wealth?
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- jimeeboy51
Lets say somebody offers you a new job, and we can hypothetically say its something like....owning/managing a farm. (In otherwords, it has almost nothign to do with graphic designing, which is our passion of course! and we love doing it!) The farm is hard work, something you have to learn from almost scratch, but you can make, if not twice as much, a crap load more than your salary as a graphic designer. Therefore, you can be financially stable and retire young (40's). On the otherhand, graphic design is what you do and love, something you studied for, it doesn't even feel like work! But you might be making about $55k-65k+ with 10 yrs of experience, but that might be all. Sure you can live comfortably, but you would have to work into your 50's and 60's probably too.
Ok, I know this is getting long, but if you were approached with this opportunity, what would you do? Farming? (hypothetically speaking!) or Graphic Designing? I have about a few weeks to decide which to sacrifice. Thanks.
- Elfangio0
I would go for the farming...
You can always do some graphic design on your "extra" time...
Clients suck...
Good luck mate
- Peter0
Farming
- save0
Farming...
- BeachBoy0
Extra time with Farming!? You are having a laugh right?
It may be more money but farming is bloody hard work, up before dawn, adn out in it til the sun goes down, 7 days a week. No weekend, no social life - apart from the odd barn dance
But then, thats hypethetically speaking of course
- MR_T0
There are other things in life other than work...things like getting married, having a family. What i am trying to say is look at holistacally rather than being a problem about whether you can ply your trade as a designer or not.
- Vain0
There was a study done by Harvard graduates on a topic very close to this one.
The question was asked to 1000 college students if they would be working for what they love, or for what will bring them wealth. Of those questioned, roughly 75% said they will be working mainly for money, and the remainder answered "for passion/love".
20 years later, out of that 1000 person group, there were roughly 30 millionairres.
95% of the millionairres were in the group "I will work for my love/passion"
The money will come, my friend. Do what you love. Live for a passion and all the rest will fall into place.
- save0
its only a job, happiness is more important.
- Vain0
btw....the best graphic designers are not making 55-60k. The ones who've devoted their life to it, worked hard for many years....are very rich.
- MR_T0
you make a good case vain.
- zedvox0
do graphic design for farmers.'
- BeachBoy0
does it help if you just say you love your work?
No no, seriously, I really do love recruitment, i do
*poof...i'm a millionaire - yippee
- rasko40
dudes! you cant do farming, you end up talking "loike thes innet me bey, bleddy rain gown dun me wheat I tell 'e"
and not to mention the partaking in strange local rituals and regular acts of incest and beastiality. You know its true.
- hooked0
its a shame you can't do a bit of both.
i'd consider do some outdoorsy stuff to get the money and leave the catastrophically unhealthy business of sitting infront of a screen to just the projects i'd want to do out of love.
but thats all abit of an ideal really isn't it.
- ible0
Weath !! because you can always buy love.
Love cant get you wealth.
sorry but its true!
- Bluejam0
The only reason i would become a farmer is so that i could...
http://www.farmallpromenade.com/…
...tractor dance!
- save0
hahahaha
- rasko40
tractor dancing... brilliant!
- waynepixel0
Your never going to get rich from Graphic design.
I need a new Career.
- DutchBoy0
do not become a farmer if your passion is graphic design, before you know it you'll be mowing giant logos in the fields and branding all the cows and what not, and arranging the corn by color and composition.. it'll be shite!
anyway, do what you love.
- waynepixel0
Paint all the Cows Pink.
and and.