Financial stability or happiness?

[daisyflowers12]

What do you believe is more important?

1. Being financially stable (whatever this means to you), but doing a job you dislike.
2. Doing a job you enjoy but not having as much money.

Would be interesting to hear peoples different views and opinions on this. I recently left a job I didn't like but paid me well, for a job more suited to me however doesn't pay me as well.

For reference I'm about £400 less a month financially, but I am happier.

I'd say it depends if you can afford the paycut.

2 as long as you can still pay the bills.

As long as I could pay the bills and have a bit left over so I could save a bit/spend a bit as I saw fit then happiness. Being financially OK allows happiness to manifest but I don't think having loads of money buys happiness (if that makes sense).

I doubt many people would actually be happy if they weren’t financially stable: you perhaps don’t feel the need to be wealthy, but you do need to be stable, struggling isn’t much fun.

I don’t love my job but I do love the lifestyle the pay gives me, and I’m happy with that settlement.

It's easier to be happy when you have plenty of money.

For me neither - I have compromised
I have a decent job, not particularly enamoured with the work but its ok, I’m good at what I do, I’ve been i a great team

I could earn more - go for promotion but I don’t want the extra responsibilty, or go full time - currently 0.8, but I like my 3 day weekends.

But I am planning a career change, I will be earning less initially but doing something that will make a difference

If the paycut meant I was struggling to make ends meet, I'd rather have the money.

Theres never definitive answer to these questions.

You maybe happier. But if the £400 less puts someone into poverty, then they won’t be happy. Especially at the moment with the threat of outgoings going up even more.

Money doesn’t make you happy. But lack of money, makes people miserable.

it’s all about finding the balance between the 2. My job is ok, just ok. I have had better. But I make a ridiculous amount of money. On balance, I am much happier now than when I loved my job but struggled to meet our bills as a single parent.

This life is far better.

When I was younger I thought happiness & passion trumped money.

Now I’m older I think the accumulation of money over the years would have made life much easier.

You sound like you’re doing it the right way round.

A lot of people can’t afford the luxury of choice either way.