Situation

Hmm, i kind of thought of this after being told of the moral - stop worrying and enjoy life.


Lets say a mother has to feed 5 children and must work at a high paying job that she doesn't necessarily like. should she continue doing a job that pays well but is not enjoyable? or do what she enjoys doing and not worry about pay?

Depends if the children are really grateful for their mother's sacrafice or not.

I'm pretty sure she'd enjoy this high paying job more than she'd enjoy not eating or being kicked out of her home...

Lets say a mother has to feed 5 children and must work at a high paying job that she doesn't necessarily like. should she continue doing a job that pays well but is not enjoyable? or do what she enjoys doing and not worry about pay?

This is pretty much the question I asked myself when I decided I want to be a mother and eventually pop out babies like nobody's business.

It really is up to the mother, and what she wants for herself, and her children. I want children. I want to be able to work fewer hours and still make enough money that we're not living from paycheck to paycheck. I want to be able to provide my children with a comfortable childhood, make enough money to be able to go on vacations with them, and have the option of sending them to a school that has a smaller student:teacher ratio so I can help ensure my children get a quality education. I will not lie, I am somewhat of a materialistic person (woohoo being a Taurus!) and these things are important to me. I do not want to make a starving artist's salary and have my children starve with me. That is my personal decision, and a major part of the reason I am currently pursuing a career in nursing.

However, I can completely understand someone's decision were they to choose the other route. I think it's also important to teach children that if they want something bad enough, they should work for it, and that life is not all sunshine and rainbows. It is important that children find what they are passionate about, and being a role model in that respect should encourage children to have similar values.

Either way, I don't think it's really my place to tell this hypothetical mother what she should and should not do, because that is not my decision to make. If the mother can find a way to work the lesser paying job and still make ends meet, then good for her. If the mother chooses to take the higher paying job and suffer for 8 hours a day so her children won't, then good for her too. It's a decision that needs to be made on an individual basis, and I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer.

work 1/6 as much, sextupling your enjoyment of life, and ditch the kids. if there was one solution to that problem, it would be this one