How do you find motivation to sell your life for peanuts?

6 points by kphild 12 years ago | 6 comments

Many of you work for peanuts. How do you rationalize that? What do you do to be able to look into the mirror every morning? Is an hour of your life really worth 50 bucks?

Not trying to be rude, just trying to force myself to work on a project.

kphild 12 years ago |

Try changing your perspective. See each 50 bucks as an opportunity to do something of benefit to you, rather than focusing on wasted time of life.

Avalaxy 12 years ago |

Wow, I don't even know where to start. This OP is so insanely arrogant and ignorant, I can't even find the words to describe it.

wturner 12 years ago | |

I actually got a good laugh out of it personally.It sounds like something an honest kid would ask. Refreshing.

krapp 12 years ago |

50 bucks an hour doing something I like is a lot better than nothing.

sharemywin 12 years ago |

go work in foodservice for a little perspective.

informatimago 12 years ago | |

But that's exactly the point! We're not working in foodservice. We have much better competencies. Less than one million Americans have the abilities required to be programmers. (That's less than 0.5% of the population!)