Are you ready to get off the tread mill for world travel?

I’ve just jumped on the tube. Rather hazily, I found myself occupying the “stand-up” seat at the end of the carriage on the London Underground . Two guys in their early 20’s, one dressed in a suit and the other in shirt and tie. They lean in to debate with glee their accountancy results and what kind of bonuses they get in investment banking next year.

Ok, so I’m causally dressed. They look like they are going to Cinderella’s ball. It shouldn’t make any difference.

I have mixed feelings, part of me thinks that it’s right to strive to get a good job that pays for my life style. But then there is the other voice in my head that tells me that you are wasting your youth, or the time you have, working for a company that really honestly doesn’t care about you.

I feel that it is a real shame that people’s priorities in their early twenties lay not with striving for something that they believe in but for something that they will make a profit from.

Surely it shouldn’t be about making as much money as possible but about being happy. Unfortunately in the modern world we live in these words seem to be as faint as ever.

Do you agree? What do you think about striving for a successful career verses travel? Let us know in the comments.