What is more valuable? the money we receive or the time we spend to get that money?
Just make sure in whatever you do, to factor the time you spent learning how to process and how to obtain the good or service you are exchanging with money.
Then you will discover than doing something as valuable as your time, is only an approximation.
And like when answering this post, you may also include the intangible income, such as friendship or distraction.
But, there is more to working than just doing it for the money, because if that is the only reason, it is probably the wrong job. To have a decent job takes learning skills and the work gives those skills a meaning. What is the point in learning anything if it is not put to practical use?
That is why many people abandon their professions after bad experiences. It happened to me. I finished 4 years of marketing and advertising, and knowing how manipulative advertising is combined with marketing strategies to deceive people, I couldn't in good conscious keep lying. The same sure happens to some lawyers and doctors.