Originally Posted by Cleinad

it's not being naive, for goodness sake. pay is definitely important to any salaried employee, it's just a matter of priority, right? if pay is your topmost priority, then you wouldn't work in HR or physiotherapy.

there are a ton of social workers, nurses, teachers who don't earn as much as their peers in the private sectors in, say, investment sectors, but I can tell you without a doubt many of them are more satisfied than their peers in the cut throat wall street equivalent in sg. who is better off financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually? the thing is, there is no one single defining factor to say which job is better than the other. it all boils down to what we want to do in our lives and how we want to live it.