A high paying job vs quality time with family and friends1

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A high-paying job vs. quality time with family and friends
A high-paying job may satisfy people`s need for money, while it
may also make them feel exhausted physically and empty
mentally. If I have the right to make choices, I would choose to
have a lower-paying job. For me, to live happily and healthily is
of vital importance in my life. And a high-paying job with long
working hours definitely cannot provide me with the life I want.
To me, a meaningful life should be based on happiness. Working
long hours will certainly take my leisure time away. When I have
no time to spend with my family members and friends, I will feel
a sense of loneness and emptiness. In order to save money for my
tuition in University, I spent most of my time working in a fast
food restaurant and cram school five years ago. That was the most
miserable period of time in my life. I worked about 12 hours a
day. Talking to no one except customers, I felt that I cannot
release myself from the great pressure from work. The feelings of
isolation made me feel helpless and despair. This terrible
experience has convinced me that in order to have more free time
to get along with my parents and friends, I would rather have a
lower-paying job with shorter hours.
Besides, people`s health may be greatly damaged because of their
jobs with long hours. It is said that
ithout good health, nothing
big can be achieved. ?To maintain good health condition makes
one feel energetic. Though high-paying job may bring money to
us, it can never bring health to us. After all, one`s health has to be
kept by regular exercises and balanced diets. With little leisure
time, normal lifestyle can hardly be achieved by people.

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Life is short, and I do not want to spend all my time on earning the
money. Can money bring me real satisfaction? Can money make
me happy? To me, all the answers to these questions are negative. I
might not get a large amount of money from the lower-paying job,
while I have the most precious things in life--happiness and health.