Career, Quality of Life, and Decisions
Just read a very good blog entry by Matthew Moran on the choices he has made in his career and finances to achieve a better quality of life. I completely agree with his statement that “Time & Options are the quality of life barometers I wish to use.”
Personally though, I am taking a different path to achieve the same goals. When I left the consulting world to get a ‘real job’ in December of last year I took a tremendous pay cut – over 55% – and am slowly working to get back to where I was in remuneration for my time and expertise. However, this has given me back the two things that I was dearly missing – Time & Quality of Life. There are some people I know who are willing to make the sacrifice of time now to achieve a better quality of life in the future and while I respect their decision I tried it, found it wasn’t working and am now taking a different path.
If you have been questioning your quality of life lately, I would suggest taking two minutes out of your day and reading Mr. Moran’s blog entry. Start thinking about what choices you are making now and how they will affect you twenty years from now, you may be surprised at some of the realizations you come to. :)
My google alerts brought your post to my attention. I’m honored you found what I wrote worth commenting on.
In fact, I am interviewing for a regular job next week. It was going to be contract but seems they would like to lock me in and it is geographically advantagis. Plus, it will afford me clear thinking time in the AM (I am a morning/extreme morning person) to write – couple book projects I have.
I’ll be covering the topic more in the next few weeks.
Thanks again,
Matt
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Matt, I’m looking forward to your next entry on this topic, it has been foremost in my mind for quite some time now and you’re an excellent writer.
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