How many of us can truly say we are passionate about our jobs? Not many I assure you. But we still do them because there are simply too many never-ending bills to pay! We are programmed by social conditioning since young to value the carrot-stick incentives tremendously, so that we'll do what needs to be done, just because it pays a salary, even though the work is not particularly valuable by itself.
Many people work in jobs they hate because they've become attached to their salaries and don't want to start over from scratch in a more inspiring field or entry-level position which are more suitable for them. This is wage slavery and even well-paid white collar workers are falling into this trap.
Trading one's purpose for a salary is a silly compromise because money brings no joy without purpose, so in fact, high salary is just the mordern form of slave's shackles.
If you're working in a job you hate just to pay the bills, you're robbing this wonderful world of the real contribution you could be making. I'm sure many of you out there, like me, have plenty of reasons to play it safe, to be guided by social conditioning and continue to be manipulated into doing work we hate, or find no true purpose behind it, just to get that salary.
