Poll: Money or Happiness

Money or happiness?

  • Moeny

    Votes: 142 44.0%

  • Happiness

    Votes: 181 56.0%
  • Total voters
    323

BD10NNF

BD10NNF

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Just wondering what you would prefer.

Would you rather have a happy life (living alone, family or whatever you consider happy, in a job you love but doesn't pay the best)
or
have a boat load of money in a job you hate (bare in mind you can buy pretty much what you want to numb the pain of been unhappy)?


Me personally I'd prefer happiness. I was in a job where the pay wasn't as much as I could get in other places or roles. Yes I couldn't always get what I wanted in life.

Generally I was and still am happier than some of my friends. Some of them are managers and have a lot more money than me but don't seem to be as happy. They buy what they want when they want but can't seem to fill that hole.
 
#2! Make a boat load of money, hire some of you happiness hipsters and make your life miserable. :D

On a serious note, I think most will pick option #1..
 
Having a job you hate is not the same thing as being unhappy. I dont actually hate my job, but my work life is so separate to home life that even if i did, but it paid well, it would be OK with me.
 
Happiness. As long as I can make ends meet, and am able to live well enough to enjoy time with family/friends and enjoy my job. I'd take that everyday over hell on earth for a lot of money.
 
Well, quite obviously I would choose happiness. Who wouldn't? :confused:

Though I don't agree with the phrase "money can't buy happiness". What utter tripe. Of course it can. :p

Also I think that earning a boat load of money, buying my house, my collection of cars, my hookers and my blackjack table, and then calling it quits, and settling down in a job which I am happy in, seems like a good choice. ;)
 
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Well, to lead a happy life, a certain base amount of income is required (varies from person to person), so by definition, option 1 will mean you have enough money to make you happy. :p
 
krooton said:
Well, to lead a happy life, a certain base amount of income is required (varies from person to person), so by definition, option 1 will mean you have enough money to make you happy. :p
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This is good, this means I can be happy and have an oversized house and a car collection! :p
 
I'm asking you are happy but you just make enough to live or you make a lot of money but are generally unhappy and have to buy happiness that doesn't last long at all.
 
BD10NNF said:
I'm asking you are happy but you just make enough to live or you make a lot of money but are generally unhappy and have to buy happiness that doesn't last long at all.
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This doesn't really work for me then. If I can just about make ends meet, I won't be happy. I will be stressed and depressed.
 
Surely, if you picked happiness that would assume that you are happy with whatever wage you're getting so there is no disadvantage to picking it...?
 
Probably option 1.

If option 2 is exactly as you describe, boat load of money but in a job you hate - JUST a job you hate, then I can probably deal with it. There is more to life than just a job. However, if option 2 is literally just money and everything else was **** then I'd definitely go with option 1.

You can buy whatever you want to try and numb the pain of being unhappy, but that's exactly what you are doing - you're numbing the pain. You're masking the pain. You're not curing it. It will eventually get to you one day, most likely when you're 60 and sat in a spacious living room alone and thinking 'I have all this money, but something is still missing.'
 
I'm a scientist in academia which means long hours, little money but I get to work on stuff which I find genuinely excites me.
However with a wedding coming up, hopes to start a family and move to a bigger house I would be tempted to sell my soul and go for option 2.
 
Mat said:
Surely, if you picked happiness that would assume that you are happy with whatever wage you're getting so there is no disadvantage to picking it...?
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Well you can't say buy a new TV if it breaks or can't fix your car.
So you have enough to live on but can't just spend what you like. You have to save for things if you can. But your life is full of people who love you and always fun 99% of the time.

Or

You have loads of money. Buy what you want when you want. But don't have the happiness hence buying things or doing stuff to make you happy but you are generally unhappy with life. Say no partner etc
 
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