Topic 71 A high-paying job vs. quality spare time

Some people may prefer to have a lower-paying job as long as the job asks for

shorter working hours so they can have more free time spending with their

friends and family. However, I would rather be given a higher-paying job with

longer hours, even if I would have little time with my friends and family. I do

not much care about the free time nowadays; I really care about money. Besides,

all my friends and my family members are usually busy working. Furthermore,

if I do not earn a lot of money, I cannot spend my free time with my friends and

family happily.

 

I really care about money because my budget is too tight nowadays. I am so

poor a student. The tuition is high, but I have to pay for it. I also have to pay

my rentals of room and pay the board. I have to pay the transportation fares, the

books, the clothes and a lot of daily supplies. All these seem to be a heavy

financial burden to me. So, I have to look for a job that could offer me a higher

salary.

 

My friends and my family members are all very busy all day long. Some of

them are busy working; others are busy studying. They are usually having little

free time to spend with friends and family, including me. If I were given a

shorter hours job and more free time, I could not meet them anyway.

 

Besides, even if my friends and I have managed to find out some leisure time to

spend together, if I have not enough money, where the fun will be? Any

meeting or party costs a fortune, even the simplest picnic. If we have no money

to spend for our gathering, we have to just sit over there and chat. We will feel

boring soon. Knowing this, I am eager for a higher-paying job so that I can get

the money ready for the meetings in the future.

 

For all these reasons, I would like to have a higher-paying job to support

myself and earn enough money to meet my busy friends and family sometime

later. Although this job cannot offer me more time to spend with my friends and

family now, I believe that I will compensate it after I have become some kind

of millionaire in the future.