Is money your motivator?

[GMDino]

(09-18-2017, 05:08 PM)Au165 Wrote: Who says you can't have both? I have found that if you are valuable you have leverage. You can then parlay that leverage into all sorts of things that work in your favor. I have used the leverage I have acquired for promotions as well as limits on how much I am required to travel for work. I enjoy the people I work with and what I do, and I have been fortunate that each time I have been interested in leaving they have given me a promotion, and created positions for me to be promoted into, in order to keep me around.

If you believe you have to choose between money or happiness in your job then you aren't in the right situation.

Where it comes down to me is I can't be miserable at my job.  For example my job now can be stressful and at time I'd like to quit, but I have a certain amount of freedom to do what I want and the pay is good.

So it wasn't just "being happy" but also the balance of how happy vs how miserable and what the other benefits were.

I see your point.