I am in the last year of an MDiv program and moving towards Ordained Ministry in the United Methodist Church. My undergrad was in Comptuer Science and I was a software engeenier and project manager for almost a decade. For me I just couldn't stand being locked in the office all day and started to explore what I found really interesting and rewarding. I was volunteering at my church at the time and decided that I was feeling called to make it my profession.

I would say find that thing that holds your interest, that you'd get great satisfaction out of, and find a way to make it your job. Careers should be about a lot more than money. They should stir something in you which has its own rewards. Yes, you'll not be able to buy as much. Though, ask yourself, do all the things you buy really make your life better or are they just a means to distract yourself from the job you dislike.

We did have to sell our home and move into a small apartment while at school and their won't be any new cars for a long while, but it was well worth it. I've been busier the last three years than I have ever been, yet at the same time happier and more excited about life.

"Awful science"? How so? Care to point out the flaws in the study?

Hmmmmmm?

How about the sample size of 43?

I'm not at all impressed with the ability of study that has a statistically insignificant sample size and which also assumes people can accurately label themselves liberal or conservative to impart wide reaching conclusions about people of different political beliefs such as the submitter of the slashdot article suggests.

The PDF, if you please:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/amodiolab/Amodio%20et%20al.%20(2007)%20Nature%20Neuro.pdf/

To me, a test studying whether people tend to press W when M comes up 4 times as often simply tells us that some people tend to press W when it comes up 4 times more often and others do not.

Final Score:
Study - Shaky, but ok. Sample size too small, sample is not listed as random, sample depends on self classification.
Conclusions - Just plain shaky.

Ok, so hers the scenario Bill's talking about taken to extreme. I have a great idea for software product X. I then invest a year of my life and some of my friends time to code it. I then sell great idea X for $100. I sell one copy to on individual. That individual likes it so much he starts giving it away. Now 1 million people are using great idea X, but I've only made $100.

Bill argument is that this is wrong. The argument here seems to be the opposite, that this is ok. Someone please tell me how this is ok? And while your at it why I should ever waste my time on great idea Y and Z?