If it does please them then fair enough, but often they have the attitude of thinking they are great, when really they are not happy. Its very complex to explain on here, but another forum I frequent you get a lot of LSE students going on about how wonderful they are and how they are going to earn so much money, while basicaly turning thier noses up at other universities and jobs.

There is a reason why you should never say you're doing it for the money in a job interview. In my experience if you are in somthing for the money you're not going to get anywhere, becuase you need a genuine passion for the subject or job to be able to cope when things go wrong, otherwise you will end up being very stressed and even depressed. In the end my dad was just doing it for the money, i.e he hated the job but had no choice becuase it paid the bills.

On this forum you often get questions like "which of these jobs will make the richest, investment banker, doctor, accountant or lawyer, to be this a bit of twisted logic.

I guess however I have always known what I am passionate about from an early age so the idea of people doing somthing purely for money seems odd.

Of course if you're passionate about somthing that pays well you have struck gold