People consistently choose more money over increased leisure. So it’s not unique to this situation. I think the assumption is that the option for leisure will always be there but the option to make lots of money won’t be. This is colloquially known as “get while the getting’s good.” Though I’m sure there are other reasons as well.
You may also be poorly calibrated on how much money one can use.
Quite possibly. On contemplation, I suspect my original confusion is typical mind fallacy with ugh field—I worked at a place tangentially linked to the City several years ago, and mostly I felt that our customers were, each and every one, prima facie arguments in favour of a particularly bloody socialist revolution. And I hated every second individually. Even though the work itself was pretty close to what I do right now. So yeah, not a good fit.
(I presently work at a small publishing company where things are considerably easier-going. I can also work from home pretty much any day I need to, which is quite a few of them. And the money’s good for non-City Unix sysadmin.)
People consistently choose more money over increased leisure. So it’s not unique to this situation. I think the assumption is that the option for leisure will always be there but the option to make lots of money won’t be. This is colloquially known as “get while the getting’s good.” Though I’m sure there are other reasons as well.
You may also be poorly calibrated on how much money one can use.
Quite possibly. On contemplation, I suspect my original confusion is typical mind fallacy with ugh field—I worked at a place tangentially linked to the City several years ago, and mostly I felt that our customers were, each and every one, prima facie arguments in favour of a particularly bloody socialist revolution. And I hated every second individually. Even though the work itself was pretty close to what I do right now. So yeah, not a good fit.
(I presently work at a small publishing company where things are considerably easier-going. I can also work from home pretty much any day I need to, which is quite a few of them. And the money’s good for non-City Unix sysadmin.)