Lucky escape. First jump. Squeeze tha balls and GO. (please correct my mistakes) I was working in Casino as a dealer in the early 2000th. We collectively decided to jump with a parachute. Before jumped out we had prepared responsibly. And the day came. I was a little nervous because it was my first jump. I thought It could become the last one though. The plane took us from the place and started to gain an altitude. This hell machine was moving circle clockwise. I was sitting on the right side close to the exit. Soon we opened the door and I was on the edge of the abyss. My breath caught every time the plane came in a new circle and heeled in my direction. I thought it was trying to throw me off before it got the right height, so I held to the metal bench as tight as I could. We got the height. And the guide told us: “You should stand as close to each other as you could. I second delay is 100 meters to the side when you landed. Squeeze the balls. I command you go out through that damn door”. And I went. We had trained a lot, so I grouped my body, counted to 7, slowly and thoughtfully while I was turned over several times by a stream of air and finally pulled the ring out. When rotating stopped I saw the whole beauty of the earth from the bird`s eyes view. It was very quiet up there. I realized I was feeling my breath hearing the wings of flying birds rustle. This extraordinary state didn`t last long and after a minute I started to fell down three times faster. The closer the land was the faster I fell. At the same period of time, I realized the ground left me under my feet. This meant, according to the training I had done, I was flying forward with my back. If I had to pull myself up in the lines and turn over to the approaching land. I was trying hard and when I almost did it the land said me Hello. It was a hard landing. When I woke up, the tiny stars still flew in in front of my eyes. Close to me, I could hardly make out a dark spot of small growth. While I was feeling the limb for availability, the stain asked me in a trembling voice: “Boy, are you alive?”. I looked around and recognized my companion as a someone’s granny. In her hands was a hoe. Apparently, she had been busy with the garden, before I landed. I was laying in the middle of it, about 500 meters from the place. I was alive.

Is money or job satisfaction more important to consider when choosing a career? Is money or job satisfaction more important to consider when choosing a career? Either we work to live or we live to work? That is the question. For me, when I choose a new place to work, I think: what will give me enough money and enough free time for life? Does it matter, to enjoy your work duties, independent from salary level? For me the answer is simple. I prefer work which is interesting itself and gives me opportunities to spend my free time. I will not work in a job that I hate for really big income. There are different views and claims about this. From one side, we have job seekers who search for better salary only. It is not important how hard, how long, they will work and what they will do. They might think that money can buy everything. This is almost true but not hundred percent. You can buy a lot: better medical services, various entertainments, vocational trips to beautiful places, better space for living, good education for children. Even more, you can help your poorer extended family’s members. From another side, we have candidates who want to find work to enjoy it. Usually, they are older than seekers from the first group we discussed earlier. They have understood that only thing we cannot buy is «Time». Although it is irrecoverable the value of it becomes very high. Ideal work for them is ones in which they enjoy the process and they have enough leisure time. Finally, we have the third group, sort of mix of previous two. Members of this group are looking for rather a high salary and even interesting and also giving pleasure work. I do believe this group is the biggest one because humans have wanted money as well as job satisfaction. People these days are searching for them both and always were searching. There are plenty of people choices they have made when they were choosing a career. One is searching for funds, other for joy. And we have sort of mix of this two. For me it is as well is a mix, but I give more for job satisfaction than for a higher salary.