"Why? Why did you choose this job?"

Dear Monkeys,

We all get his question and it is sometimes hard to give a good answer. How do you justify your choices? Why did you choose to work in Finance? Why don't you do something useful?

"What if money did't matter?"

What you are you thoughts?

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