About sharing ones personal journal; well but I do read and reply to personal messages from people. Of course sometimes it takes me time to reply, but so far the amount and frequency of personal feedback has been nice and manageable. What comes to the technical side, for example creating an user account on this site allows sending personal messages.

Oh well. I'd guess it would be rather easy to find a lot of advice telling 'listen to your heart, always choose what your inner soul desires, no matter if it pays less'- But then, on the other hand, I'm also a realist =) Personally, I've been lucky to manage with my low-budget life, and finding an affordable house was a game-changer, a bit of a gamble which turned out good. I mean, I'm not going to recklessly encourage everybody to do the same - no no, I can imagine thousand ways to use the money if I had a higher paying work. And in a way, it would be very wise to first go with a secure income, saving some money, and only then go adventurous if the high-paying work really starts to feel emotinally unrewarding.

Finally, for those who want to read more; this blog post wast mostly sparked by reading Clementine's recent blog post, which touches these same themes.