June 20

Word Count: 308

My summer job has caused me to think about about happiness as well as how I define happiness. I have let Elon and have been out of school, and have to take this course as the last box I have to check to get my degree. I studied international business in college but my summer job is as a sailing crew on a boat. It is my dream job and I love everyday and have come to find that I wake up easier because I love what I do.

Yet I recently interviewed with a large reinsurance company on the island for a graduate program that closely relates to the job that I would use my degree doing. There are travel opportunities tied with this position that is a huge perk, as well as benefits and insurance. Yet I have done this type of work before and have not found the same happiness in doing it.

The personal battle that I am currently in is whether to stick with a job that I love and that has been a great thing for my life, or go the route that my parents expect out of me as well a the degree I have obtained. This is a big decision that I have to make, and as of right now I will be taking the office job in September. This course has opened my eyes to the things that make people happy and how happiness is not measured in money and status but the subjective well being a person feels. I think that later down the line my subjective well being and mental happiness will revert me back to the boat but as of right now the office is winning the battle in what is the next step for me, yet there is a chance that my passions will prevail.