Should I blindly follow my intuition?

Hey Guys,

I would like to have your opinion on a situation that I'm facing. I am a software developer from Quebec City and I moved to Florida 3 months ago. I now have a job here where I make the most money that I've ever made, yet I feel totally unfulfilled when I'm being totally real with myself. I've known my life purpose which is veganism. The main reason to why I'm here is to start a business to give money to non-profits that do work in that area and help reduce animal suffering.

I am alone here and to me, it seemed like it is the "perfect" opportunity to start my business since work is easy and I earn some money that I could invest in my business. The truth is that when I come home, I really have to discipline myself to work on my business and I have a hard time doing it, since it seems like the work that I'm doing is so disconnected to animal work even though it is why I am doing at the end of the day.

I have a seen a job opportunity in California for a web developer at a non-profit organization that I truly love called Mercy For Animals. It has been on my mind for a while to just quit everything here and go and work there. The "problem" is that my salary will drop almost my half and the place where the job is is a lot more expensive than here so I will barely make any money. I feel like I will be more motivated to work on my business since I will be working on a day to day job that will be more motivating. Even if I earn less money, if I'm able to work quickly to start my business, it might be a smart change, but I fear that I will miss an opportunity to invest more money in my business and get it started quicker and ultimately helping animals more.

Any opinion/insights from you guys would be welcome, I am totally open minded to anything that I might not have thought of.

Thanks a lot and have an amazing day,

Claude

Never just blindly follow your intuition! :) Use all your senses! Your logic and rational thinking are important too! It does sound like you are using those here so I think either way will be okay as long as you have your budget, place of living, place to buy healthy food all worked out before you go to the low paying job. You are suffering now because of the job but you could suffer equally if you cannot buy good food or live in a comfortable place. I think you need to do more homework on that aspect of things.

Another way to look at it is to imagine that you only have six months to live, or one month, or one week, or one day, and think about how you would want to spend that time. Planning ahead is very good but also spending whatever time you have left in this life in a way that increases your qualities of enlightenment is important. Perhaps keep looking for a job that pays more and is more in line with your values.

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ednshell July 27, 2017 at 5:49am

Never just blindly follow your intuition! :) Use all your senses! Your logic and rational thinking are important too! It does sound like you are using those here so I think either way will be okay as long as you have your budget, place of living, place to buy healthy food all worked out before you go to the low paying job. You are suffering now because of the job but you could suffer equally if you cannot buy good food or live in a comfortable place. I think you need to do more homework on that aspect of things.

Another way to look at it is to imagine that you only have six months to live, or one month, or one week, or one day, and think about how you would want to spend that time. Planning ahead is very good but also spending whatever time you have left in this life in a way that increases your qualities of enlightenment is important. Perhaps keep looking for a job that pays more and is more in line with your values.

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