Even with a weak economy, it’s not just a paycheck that draws workers

A first-person article in the Sunday New York Times talks about just the conundrum that many creative class workers are facing: is work about the biggest paycheck possible or should it be about something else.

In this article, Pamela Skillings talks about the choices she finally faced up to: “My big paycheck was making me miserable. In short, I hated my job, but I was afraid to give up my hard-earned six-figure salary for what I really wanted: a career as an entrepreneur.”

Skillings eventually bites the bullet and joins the ranks of people who find happiness in other ways than just a big paycheck. While her career move was not from one location to another, it did involve a lot of the same kinds of decisions that places like Duluth Superior need to have fall in their favor.

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