(For my practice for English examination and this might be not my honest opinion.)
Q: People work because they need money to live. What are some other reasons that people work?
I believe there are some reasons why people work and earn money aside from working to live. I know some people simply want to get money to become rich people. In my case, I believe that I work for the following two reasons.
Firstly, I can improve my technics as a professional music composer. After graduation from music university, I started pursuing my professional career in music. Although it was true that I had to work and earn money to live, it was also true that those works gave me a lot of experiences which were imperative for me to improve technics for becoming a mature professional composer. If there were not a lot of offers from customers with the budged for the composition, I have never reached my current level of skills for the composition. Thus, working has another important meaning for me.
Secondly, working and earning money aside from working to live can increase the quality of my life. For example, if I have spare money, I often go popular restaurants with my friends even though they are a bit expensive because I like their atmosphere in their restaurants which are not usual and I can feel a special day. At those restaurants, I can enjoy special dinners with unique ingredients and many beautiful decorations, sometimes formal clothes and the sight of cherry blossom from inside of the restaurant. These can really increase the quality of my life. In addition, if I have spare money from working, I can increase the quality of lives of other people by donation. I understand that there are a lot of people who have been suffering from starving on the earth. By donating money from my spare money, I can help people and increase their happiness, at the same time, it also makes me happy mentally. This is because the reason why I work.
To sum up, for these two reasons, being able to increase my technics as a professional composer, and for better quality of my life and other people’s lives, working has significant meanings for me aside from working to just live.