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“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.
This statement holds the conclusion that financial gain should be the most important factor for one to choose a career. As far as I am concerned, I will admit that when one chooses a career, financial factor should be concerned, however, it is not the only factor and it is not the most important factor, other factors such as the opportunities of the career or one’s future development should be considered more significant. 73
In the first place, I believe that financial gain is only a short-term factor to measure the success of a career choice. Moreover, when one only focuses on such a factor, this person will lose more benefit in the future. First of all, when people, who deem that financial gain is the most important, begins to choose a career, they will have less choice, because they will deny any jobs which offer low payment. However, such “low payment at first” jobs, will possibly not only bring them more opportunity and better development in the future but also provide them with more financial gain in the future. In addition, there is no absolute high financial gain, when people concentrate on this factor, they can not feel satisfied easily and may feel bad about their current jobs, an attitude that may destroy their futures. 142
On the second hand, there are many factors other than financial opportunities such as training opportunities, working circumstances and working pressures, which I consider are more important than financial gain. When people can get many training during a job, they will be more likely to accustomed to various situations in the future and develop better. When people work in a fine office and in a friendly atmosphere, they are also more likely to be more efficient in work and win themselves better future even better financial gains. What’s more, when people do not have much pressure from work, they are more likely to own more time to have a rest and to arrange their life more freely, thus, they will like their jobs and try their best to do the jobs well. Therefore, financial gain is certainly not the most important factor in choosing a job. 146
Last but not the least, I agree that financial gain indeed is a factor that people should consider in choosing a job, because financial independence is a promise for people’s freedom in other aspects and is the base for people’s lives. However, it is only a factor and can not and should not become the vital factor because emphasizing it while ignoring other factors will bring more negative effects. 69
In conclusion, on the one hand, financial gain is only a short-term factor to measure a job, a factor that can not bring people much benefit. On the other hand, other factors are more important than it to influence people’s future development. It is not sagacious for people to choose a career only by consider the financial gain from it. 60 | 
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