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Not sure what you're saying. Are you saying that jobs that are enjoyable for most people necessarily don't pay well? That employers are willing to pay well only for jobs that most people don't enjoy?David Lewis said:I agree. This is a challenge. If it's the type of activity that most people enjoy doing then it's not so easy to demand big money.
One of the points I was making in Post #29 was that happiness via a job not only requires that you be exceptionally good at what you do, but that you also enjoy what you do. You can be exceptionally good at what you do, and get well compensated for it, even though you don't particularly enjoy it [I was in this scenario as a patent agent in a law firm]. But you can be exceptionally good at what you do, get well compensated for it, and enjoy it [I was in this scenario as a physicist in a R&D lab]. And I believe this is true, e.g., of musicians once they have established a large enough fan base to perform the music that they want to perform [rather than the type of music that the studio they signed a contract with dictates that they perform]: they are exceptionally good musicians, they truly enjoy their music, they have a large customer (fan) base, and they are well compensated (their fans are willing to pay for records and concerts and fan merchandise).
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