>This would be too complex to try to solve in this thread. Perhaps money has something to do with this. For example I heard people here say that it was'nt worth it to get one because the additional money that they would get from it was'nt worth the efforts.
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>So perhaps in some places it's a question of prestige, other places a question of money and other places a question of fulfilment.
In my opinion, the American culture is too money oriented. The regular American guy would not understand the desire to go to a science only because of a love for science.
For me personally money is not a goal. Of course, it's nice to have a good salary and not be ashamed when asked about it, but the much more important thing is to have a satisfaction from your work, the pleasure of making something useful, making the life of your users a little bit less painful...
If I'm presented with an interesting problem, I can log in into my work computer in the middle of the night and try to solve it. That gives me a pleasure, that money can not give...
I went to a lecture by R. Eliyahu Bergstein the other night about 5 levels of pleasure. He described it this way:
The lowerst 5th level of pleasure is the physical kind of pleasure. You have to enjoy your life, but there is much more it can offer you.
The fourth level of pleasure is Love. He gave several very interesting examples explaining this idea...
The third level of pleasure is doing something meangful..
The second level of pleasure is doing something Creative.
And the first level of pleasure is understanding, that everything from this word comes from G-d and trying to bring G-d in your life...
And you have to combine all these levels in order to live good and spiritual life...
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I tried to explain if briefly, I would not be able to present it as good as R. Burgstein...
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