Originally Posted by
MrMiyagy
I think you have to understand that in life you have to take everything like a grain of sand. People try to take things all at once. Not having a stable income and not being happy are because of people being over burdened. You have to take things one step at a time. People try to take two steps at a time and slip and fall. Have to go one step and keep your footing and keep going. Money may make happiness easier, but the happiness you can buy with money is only temporary, since those come and go. Love is something that can stay, so getting a family that loves themselves, can work things out. Materialistic things don't last forever. A memory does. ^_^
That's true for the most part, but who can find more time for family and love, a person that spends 70% of his day working or a person with 100k in his bank account?
When you take everything into account, being non-materialistic is almost impossible, and focusing entirely on happiness will only land you on the streets most of the time.
Originally Posted by
MrMiyagy
If you pick a job you enjoy, you'll never work a day in your life. If you honestly try, you can't go wrong. Even if you don't succeed, you have to keep trying. No matter how many times you try. Remember, most people give up right before they're almost there.
This deserves a discussion on its own, but this statement is also not entirely true. You might love the field that you get into, but until you learn everything required for working in it, it will be very hard work, and only after years you can get to the point where you enjoy your work, because only then you have enough knowledge where you could find the work enjoying.