JOB CHOICE If I had to choose between a high-paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family & friends and a lower-paying job with shorter hours that would give you more time with family & friends, I would pick out the latter one without a shadow of doubt because of these below reasons. My primary goal in the whole course of my life is to bring happiness to my beloved surrounding ones and hence, I work in an attempt to make sure that my parents and my younger sister are in relatively easy and flourishing circumstance. When my parents get older as time rolls by, as an oldest child, I’m in charge of throwing myself in the world outside and earning for a living to cover the daily needs. The point here is that money, however, does not guarantee happiness at all. Above all, when I leave the work site and come home, I play a role as a member in my family. I can feel a brief moment of joy in my father’s response when I give him a ring to tell him I will be home around 6:00p.m for dinner. I can see my mother's widen infectious smile across the table during our dinner and she just cannot wait till we have finished our dinner to inquire after my personal life and my work. These things complete my happiness. It feels like I manage to accomplish my duty as a child in my family. From my point of view, spending time being with family, keeping track of their lives and taking care of them attribute to make them happy. The second reason is that taking plunged into work without spending time being with family and friends gets you nowhere. The high salary that you’re offered does not make sense here. It’s because you have only one family, only certain finite friends to be around while you can quit your current job and switch to another if you find it monotonous or you hate your boss, whatever. Furthermore, the more intensively you work, the more frequently you’re put under fierce pressure and you have gotta face up to failure or rejection. This is when you need to take time with your family and friends to get more moral support from them. Perhaps they could not really make any differences to your issues, yet I bet they would put themselves into your shoes to feel your depression wholeheartedly. At the very least, you are not alone. Also, being with your family and friends really helps, especially when you’re drown in a mad dash to orient yourself at work because they know you and your dreams most.