Where now?

I once asked someone, “Would you rather live in a place you hated, but with a job you loved or with a job you loved, but in a place you hated?” At the time my answer, without hesitation, was a place I loved, but with a job you hated. My reasoning was that work isn’t my life and, if worst came to worst, I could always find a new one. However, now I am facing a different question: Would you rather have a job you liked now with no real future, or a job you don’t like now, but knew you would have a better future? Of course this is a grey question with many variables, but this is what it comes down to. Which do I care about more my present or my future. I should say my future. Nothing is set in stone of course, we’re only taking within 5 years, and I have been trying to plan for it, depending on what occurs. I plan to start my MBA in one to one and a half years, depending on whether I am accepted into a full time vs part time program. The MBA is a huge factor, which affects work/life balance, living location, and an entire set of variables in my future. The job I take now will certainly affect my work/life balance. Also if I can’t decide where I want to go in a company now, how am I going to decide what I want out of my MBA. Of course I want to develop a solid general background in business, so I can stop taking jobs just for the “learning experience.” In addition, I still want to stay within the corporate finance/accounting roles. But where do I go specifically? I don’t know which job I would ideally want, because in all honesty I’d rather sit on my butt doing nothing than to actually work. But that’s not going to happen until retirement, so I better decide soon what I want to do when I grow up.