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.