Is accounting worth it?

mattistotle
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:31:22 +0000

I made about a 10 paragraph post, then CC got an error, awesome.

The fact is,

1. happiness at a job is determined primarily by who you work with , not what you do

2) success has to do with, aside from intelligence and work ethic, how well you interact with your coworkers (interviews, bonuses, promotions, performance etc are all EXTREMELY subjective, and have more to do with politiking than your actual contributions)

3) The whole arguement for “enjoying job bring success” hinges on the “work ethic” point in 2). It basically boils down to the fact that if you enjoy what you are doing you will somehow work better and harder. However there’s no psychological reason why the belief you will enjoy a new porsche (you can make the argument that it wont make you happier, but the person doesn’t know this, so they will still be motivatied) won’t motivate you as much as a “liking what you do.”

4) Even the concept of “enjoying your job” is horribly ambigious much like the statement “you should 'be yourself.” Everyone believes you should do the these two things, but very few could give an answer of what this means. Most jobs people enjoy, they don’t even enjoy the activities, they enjoy the consequences. Doctors don’t enjoy grueling 10 hour long surgeries, they enjoy seeing someone stay alive (although many actually are in for the money and prestige). There is only one “happiness,” altruism can provide happiness, but its a means to and end, not a different, higher form of happiness that people make it out to be. Greed and other vices also bring people the aforementioned happiness. There are of course moral arguement that can be made, but that really falls aside the scope of this discussion.

5) remember the argument is that you don’t need to enjoy your job to succeed…NOT that you should enjoy your job to be happy in life…these are two vastly different arguments.

I know I said some controversial things, some of which may not apply to me, but remember this is about what causes success, and secondarily, what causes happiness (point 4 isn’t really even important for my arguement, just decided to throw it in for the people that STILL believe you need to “enjoy your job” to succeed at).