你會(huì)辭掉高薪工作去追求理想嗎
????“嘿,爸爸生病了。我們正送他去醫(yī)院?!?/p> ????我呆坐在那里。與洛杉磯的家遠(yuǎn)隔5,000英里。我的家人正在遭遇一場(chǎng)危機(jī),但我卻不在他們身邊。我的孤獨(dú)跨越了太平洋。 ????我最快也要坐16個(gè)小時(shí)飛機(jī)才能回到那里。 ????“他說(shuō)心臟不舒服,他動(dòng)不了了。我等會(huì)再打給你。” ????我能感覺(jué)到房間陷入一片死寂,這種感覺(jué)似乎布滿了四周的墻壁。環(huán)繞在我耳邊的聲音若隱若現(xiàn),我恍恍惚惚如墜夢(mèng)魘。我陷入瘋狂。我想四處走動(dòng),試圖讓大腦變得清醒,結(jié)果膝蓋撞上了咖啡桌、椅子和其他東西,我已經(jīng)回想不起當(dāng)時(shí)的情形。雖然我獲得了巨額財(cái)富和令人炫目的成功,但這些東西都無(wú)法幫助我。我患病的父親遠(yuǎn)在千里之外。我所擁有的一切沒(méi)有任何意義。他到醫(yī)院了嗎?他看過(guò)醫(yī)生了嗎?他出了什么問(wèn)題?他能夠痊愈嗎?如果他無(wú)法度過(guò)難關(guān),我該怎么辦? ????五六個(gè)小時(shí)后,我得到了最新消息。父親很好。他已經(jīng)回家休息了。醫(yī)生開(kāi)了藥,并囑咐了注意事項(xiàng),以防心臟病再次發(fā)作。 ????我放棄了當(dāng)時(shí)的職位,回到離家近的地方工作。公司仍會(huì)派我到世界各地。我會(huì)接受某些任務(wù),但我不再享受工作。我的工作讓我遠(yuǎn)離了生活中真正重要的東西——家庭。 ????我最終辭去了那份工作,開(kāi)始了一份不同的職業(yè)。這份工作讓我可以每周至少見(jiàn)一次家人。 ????現(xiàn)在,每到周六,我都會(huì)擁抱我的父親,擁抱我的母親,擁抱我的弟弟,陪著我們的寵物狗玩耍。 ????瑪格麗特?韋斯的回答,正在培訓(xùn)中的金融業(yè)者 ????如果目前的工作正在慢慢粉碎你的靈魂,那么答案是肯定的。在每天飽受折磨和生存的機(jī)會(huì)之間,我選擇生活。 ????如果當(dāng)前的工作是可以忍受的,那么答案是否定的;新職位并不能保證一定有所不同,而且對(duì)于我的家眷和家人,我有義不容辭的責(zé)任。所以,在職業(yè)幸福感和責(zé)任之間,我選擇責(zé)任。 ????我認(rèn)為只要降低工資要求,會(huì)有許多適合的工作,所以繼續(xù)尋找吧——這肯定不是你能找到的最后一份工作。 ????KP?魏的回答,作家 ????幾年前,我也有過(guò)類(lèi)似的經(jīng)歷,雖然當(dāng)時(shí)我的工資沒(méi)有回答這個(gè)問(wèn)題的其他人那么高。 ????我辭去了一份穩(wěn)定的工作,因?yàn)槲议_(kāi)始慢慢對(duì)它失去了興趣,我想找一份我認(rèn)為最適合自己的工作,即便這份工作的薪酬更低。我發(fā)現(xiàn)這是進(jìn)入那個(gè)快速成長(zhǎng)的行業(yè)的一次好機(jī)會(huì),盡管不能確保成功。 ????可惜的是,兩年后,我發(fā)現(xiàn)所謂的機(jī)會(huì)其實(shí)并不存在。我過(guò)得很開(kāi)心,也很喜歡做一些完全不同的事情。然而,工資的差距太過(guò)巨大,而且我抓住的所謂機(jī)會(huì)并未帶來(lái)成功。 ????如果你有許多債務(wù)(如住房貸款、孩子教育等),那么堅(jiān)持薪酬更高的工作,就更有意義。這取決于你更重視什么,以及是否有哪些事情制約著你,例如家庭和債務(wù)等。從年薪120,000美元降到50,000美元,還是有天壤之別的。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)) ????譯者:劉進(jìn)龍/汪皓 |
????“Hey, it’s about dad. We’re taking him to the hospital.” ????Here I sat. Over 5,000 miles away from my home in Los Angeles. My family is having a crisis, I am nowhere near them. My loneliness stretched itself across the pacific. ????The earliest I could get there was a 16-hour flight. ????“He says it’s his heart and he can’t move. I’ll call you later.” ????I could feel the silence in the room, as if the walls were coated in it. Surrounding and canceling, any-and-all audio that might have made me feel the reality of the world never reached my ears. Madness took me over. I attempted to walk and pace to clear my head but my knees met with the coffee table, the chair, and a few other things I can’t even recall. Of all the money and all the success I could obtain, none of it could help me. My ailing father was thousands of miles away. What I truly had was nothing. Did he arrive? Was he seen by a doctor? What is the problem? Can it be fixed? What if he didn’t make it? ????I was updated five or six hours later. Dad’s fine. He’s home resting already. Doctor gave medication and instructions if there’s another heart attack. ????I gave up my position, went back to work closer to home. The company still attempted to send me out to various international places. I would go on some of them, but I didn’t enjoy my work anymore. My work kept me away from what was truly important in my life. Family. ????I eventually gave up my job and started a different career. One that would allow me to see my family at minimum, once a week. ????Now, every Saturday, I hug my father, hug my mother, hug my brother, and pet our dog. ????Answer by Margaret Weiss, financier in training ????The answer would be yes if the current job is slowly crushing your soul. So between being tormented each and every day and a chance of survival, I would choose life. ????The answer would be no if the current job is tolerable; the new position has no guarantees of being any different, and I have obligations toward my dependents/my family. So between a chance of professional happiness and my responsibility, I choose being responsible. ????I think there are many jobs that can be taken at a pay cut, so continue searching – this is certainly not the last job available in your location. ????Answer by KP Wee, writer ????I had a similar experience several years back, although the salary figures involved weren’t as high as the ones posted in the question. ????I left a stable position, which I started to lose interest in gradually to pursue a job that I thought was perfect for me, even though it paid much less. I figured it was a good opportunity to get into that growing industry, though there were no guarantees. ????Alas, two years later, I found that the opportunities weren’t there. I had fun, and I enjoyed doing something completely different. However, the difference in salaries was huge, and the opportunities that I gambled on didn’t truly pan out. ????If you are a person who has lots of financial obligations (ie. mortgage, kids’ education, etc.), then it makes more sense to stick with the higher-paying job. It depends on what you value more, and whether or not you are tied down to anything, such as family and debts, etc. Going from $120,000 a year down to $50,000 a year is a big difference. |
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