As any given individual will spend the majority of his life caught up in some form or another of work, one should hope to find work he finds fulfilling. The alternative-work that pays well but is unsatisfying-means that one will spend the bulk of his day unsatisfied, if well-compensated. Fulfilling work is preferable to well-paying vassalage. My underlying assumption in such an assertion, naturally, is that a human life is something that should aim toward a goal higher than a balanced checking account-that work that allows one to self-actualize ceases to be work, just as work executed merely for recompense shares more in common with servitude than anything else. All work need not be labor.