essay - GMAT: Issue 32

Financial gain should be the most important factor in choosing a career.

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

Answer:
The speaker says that financial gain should be the most important factor in choosing a career. I don't agree with him at all. I'd like to state my opinion below.

First, I believe that the financial incentive should not be the first place for those who are seeking jobs. That should be personal preference, or the sense of contribution. I mean, the sense of that I like this job is indispensable in choosing the career. If a man likes a certain job, I bet that he can continue the job and will be able to gain higher reward and higher salary in his career. On the other hand, if he doesn ft like the job although the job brings him unbelievably high payment, I bet that the situation cannot last long and eventually he will face difficulty that possibly forces him to make a serious decision, leave the job. Therefore, from this perspective, I disagree with the speaker.

Second, I believe that people should not choose the career based on the salary, because how he can gain financial reward from the job is uncertain at a time when he chooses the career. I mean, people have a limitation in forecasting the future, and the fact that he can gain high financial gain today doesn't necessarily mean the fact that he can continue gaining it for a long time. Therefore, as I mention earlier, people should act based on their inner voices: what do you like, and what do you do for the world.

Finally, although financial gain should not come first, I believe that the financial factor is very important. That can be an evaluator or a gauge of whether the job is valuable or not. I mean that, remember the law of supply and demand, if there are few people who can engage in a certain job, the payment of the job will rise up in proportion to the population. In other words, if the job that he is choosing brings him higher salary, the job can be considered a precious one and the man who can do the job can be considered a person who can contribute to the outer world. In the sense, I admit that financial gain can be a very important factor for people in choosing the work.

In conclusion, although I admit that financial gain is an important aspect for people, I believe that financial gain should not be on the first place and that people should think what they want to do first.