Poll: Money or Happiness

[Tefal]

Happiness.

I have become an obsessed monster wanting as much money as possible. I have too much of it, don't know what to do it with it, don't have anything to spend it on, have no friends, no social life, I just wanted to make as much money as possible as I loved the thrill. And no matter how much I have, enough is never enough. I would not wish this on anyone as it's a horrible obsession to get into bordering on a sickness.

go do a bunch of awesome **** with no rworries an meet some cool peopole for the next year.

It's not the wealth that makes me sad. It's the obsession that enough will never be enough.

then go get therapy if its negatively affecting your life

 

[One]

Money. I would happily shovel **** for 12 hours a day if it meant that in 10 years time I was worth £100M. I could retire at 30 without a mortgage or car payments. You'd just have all the time to set up the life you want to lead, start a business with no consequence if it fails.

 

[Efour]

Kids these days... sheesh

Ill still take £10k if it will make you happy.

Spend the money on Hypnotherapy ? or a decent shrink ? Stop buying cars and do something commendable with it ?

No idea really, its not a problem i've had to deal with.

I'm sure you will get over it and settle down.

 

[Housey]

Why the hell you would pick money over happiness is beyond me.

 

[One]

The same reason people commute to london even though it's a hellhole.

 

[Housey]

Money = happiness.

Ive been loaded (by most peoples measure) and unhappy, I've been unloaded and happy. I've also been loaded and happy and unloaded and unhappy. If you take a lesson from this it should be the world is many shades of grey and rarely black and white.

 

[Housey]

The same reason people commute to london even though it's a hellhole.

Eh?

 

[garyfl]

happiness is buying big fat graphics cards and never playing no games on them.

ya need money though

 

[McBain]

Money, because money makes me happy.

Happiness does not make me money.

 

[zegna]

I'll take the happiness and make the money myself

 

[Nitefly]

Thread title is slightly misleading as the question is directly linked to the job in question:

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)?

So the question can be paraphrased as 'would you be prepared to take a boring / 'long working hours job' for more money?'

In that case I would say I'm prepared to work long hours, but I'm not willing to do something boring.

 

[adolf hamster]

i'd rather be happy than moeny.

money on the other hand....

 

[EdGey]

They're the same thing.

You can't have one without the other. Not in the UK anyway.

 

[deuse]

Money every time.

 

[Whitewater]

Happiness wins over money. Although you do need a certain amount of money, enough so that the lack of money isn't a reason for being unhappy.

 

[Guest2]

Happiness.

But this generally requires money

 

[zegna]

We need a definition of money and happiness really.

Money must be >£1bn for me to be worthwhile

Happiness is harder to define

 

[EdGey]

We need a definition of money and happiness really.

Money must be >£1bn for me to be worthwhile

Happiness is harder to define

Yea I mean 750mil just wouldn't cut it for me.

 

[sports_brah]

Yea I mean 750mil just wouldn't cut it for me.

I'd put my value at greater than 10 million.


Whilst all the whilst hoping for the billions.

 

[One]

Eh?

Well nobody likes travelling to london and back everyday and yet tens of thousands do it daily. They do it because it makes them more money than they could get in their local vicinity. The extra money makes their homelife better, therefore they're happier in the long run, even if they dread waking up in the morning.