Originally Posted by herenow
The payoff for working for someone else is a set salary, but also the ability (if you're well employed) to do the thing that you enjoy and are good at (and not the things you aren't good at) at with relatively low risk.

Are we talking about work here?

Meaning the painful and unpleasant thing we do only because we don't have enough money to not work?

I agree that avoiding risk is important. That would just add stress to an already meaningless activity.