&gt; The reason this comes up so often is that one of the the things the 7 billion people on this planet often are willing to pay your for is to do stuff that they would really rather not have to, things that are fairly objectively not much fun. If you can find fulfillment in it, all the power too you.<p>If you&#x27;re evaluating career earning potential based on what other people hate to do, then you&#x27;re misunderstanding supply and demand. If &quot;how shitty a job is&quot; correlated highly with &quot;total lifetime earnings,&quot; then you&#x27;d see millionaire sewage maintenance technicians and pizza delivery guys.<p>On the other hand, wealth consistently correlates highly with happiness (up to a plateau point, usually).<p>Further, high lifetime earnings expand opportunity. I&#x27;m not even sure why this needs to be stated - to suggest that &quot;money is a tool that constrains the choices you have&quot; is so backwards as to be laughable.