Why DONT you want to be well paid?

I don't want a 'breadwinner' man, and I don't care if a guy earns more than me. I want to succeed in a job that I enjoy and that I have the opportunities to progress in. If my future husband earns less than me I wouldn't care at all. I would rather be the one working.

You have rhe luxury of saying that right now when you don't have the worries of a mortgage,bills and tax looming over your head. Later in life when you have financial difficulties and have a baby etc your going to realize just how important it is to have a succesful man.

But if the people who have the intellectual toolsets to drive the O&G industry forward keep joining the industry, the problem is just going to get worse and worse. You know as well as anyone that as far as the O&G industry is concerned, the planet could be totally uninhabitable for life in 100 years (obviously that's an exaggeration but still) time as long as its dividends to its share holders increase in the short term. A powerful O&G industry and positive environmental change are mutually exclusive - as long as the O&G industry has 'fuel' in the form of bright geologists, strategists, businessmen and engineers, it's going to carry on chugging along quite happily whilst the environment around it continues to degrade at an accelerating rate. The O&G industry isn't going to brought to its knees by a 'moral embargo' of talent but at least it's something. On top of that, as long as the O&G industry continues to remain powerful, 'bright-green' environmentalists are going to carry on pursuing red-herring 'solutions' like CCS and Geoengineering, neither of which are real solutions (the latter of which could be totally catastrophic) in desperation, sticking to the mantra "Some justice is better than no justice at all".

Interesting how some people are pointing out that they wouldn't get out of bed for anything less than 50k a year fact is the majority will earn far less than that.

I really find it hard to understand why people go for low paid jobs when they seem to have the intellectual capability to aim for industries which are relatively well-paid.

I see students who have the credentials and the profile potential to enter industries such as law, investment banking being etc.. but instead choose to go into places such as teaching. Are they just lazy?

So if you do intend to get out of bed for a job that pays less than £50k a year and you're smart (i.e flawless grades/credible uni/strong ECs), why? what's your motivation?

inb4, "it's my passion".

I had a 'money is the most important thing' mindset for a long time. I recently realised that doing something you're passionate about and enjoying how you spend your life is more important than, say, spending your entire life doing something you hate (but for a lot of money).

In short, happiness > money

Lol, you haven't a clue. Didn't realise you need mathetmatical skill to be a banker.. unless differentiation is deemed difficult.

I really find it hard to understand why people go for low paid jobs when they seem to have the intellectual capability to aim for industries which are relatively well-paid.

I see students who have the credentials and the profile potential to enter industries such as law, investment banking being etc.. but instead choose to go into places such as teaching. Are they just lazy?

So if you do intend to get out of bed for a job that pays less than £50k a year and you're smart (i.e flawless grades/credible uni/strong ECs), why? what's your motivation?

inb4, "it's my passion".

So if you do intend to get out of bed for a job that pays less than £50k a year and you're smart (i.e flawless grades/credible uni/strong ECs), why? what's your motivation?

I want to be rich and I have no quelms admitting this. Not sure why my mothers relatives hate me saying this.

They think its a shame to have lots of money yet rant about bills constantly.

People resent what they can't get.

I am asking myself the same thing sometimes. Some very bright people simply don't know what to do.