The key to finding what makes you happy?
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Ball cocks - it possibly makes it easier but that doesn't lead to instant happiness.
I am nowhere near rich, I can pay my bills but I don't have a lot of cash at the end of the month but to be honest I couldn't give a monkies and I am not kidding myself.
Yes, if I was always in debt that might dent the happiness factor but as I start the month with nothing and end with nothing, I am still happy and my family doesn't go without.
As for the other person who said he doesn't know anyone who enjoys their job has struck out for me as well. I have worked in the same place for 18 years and have different jobs in those 18 years.
I didn't enjoy it that much, but the latest job I have there is the dogs hairy bits and I think I may be in this one for a while.
If you think your job is chuff you just haven't found the right one
Ball cocks - it possibly makes it easier but that doesn't lead to instant happiness.
I am nowhere near rich, I can pay my bills but I don't have a lot of cash at the end of the month but to be honest I couldn't give a monkies and I am not kidding myself.
Yes, if I was always in debt that might dent the happiness factor but as I start the month with nothing and end with nothing, I am still happy and my family doesn't go without.
As for the other person who said he doesn't know anyone who enjoys their job has struck out for me as well. I have worked in the same place for 18 years and have different jobs in those 18 years.
I didn't enjoy it that much, but the latest job I have there is the dogs hairy bits and I think I may be in this one for a while.
If you think your job is chuff you just haven't found the right one
Try earning £0 then. You wouldn't even have a house. Your family would be in dire straits. Money makes the world go around, and once you got the basics, unsurprisingly you'll find money is what gets you the things that make you happy as well. From the ladies, to sweets, to that fancy BMW you drive past to work everyday.
Conversely, having more money won't guarantee more happiness either though. There's a law of diminishing returns in there somewhere, but it varies from person to person. Maybe you're just lucky enough that you hit diminishing returns almost straight away. For the vast majority of people this isn't the case.
But no one will ever earn £0 thanks to the benefit system, however fatally flawed it is.
I did also put in my reply that if I was always in debt, which if you are earning nothing you will be in if you need to get food etc, then that may dent the happy factor.
As for having to have money etc to get the ladies, I guess no one told my wife that bit thankfully. I would imagine that you adapt to what cash you have to hand....I started my life after leaving the comfort of my parents home in a crappy 1 bedroomed flat with my girlfriend and a baby on the way.
The surroundings were crap, we moaned about it daily, hourly on the weekends when the idiots on the estate started doing when they did best on weekends, but together we were happy sat it the crappy flat, in the crud end of town and eating Tesco value food.
I think I started replying to this thread with the same thought as I have now - happiness is what you make it, whether you are filthy rich or that hard up you are struggling to find two pennies to rub together.
I look back at the flat, damp and small as it was, and wouldn't change a thing now - thats part of what made us a family and thats when my happy place started to become clear. The last 5 years has been a bit better as I am actually enjoying my job.
Thats it - my muddlings out and over
I did also put in my reply that if I was always in debt, which if you are earning nothing you will be in if you need to get food etc, then that may dent the happy factor.
As for having to have money etc to get the ladies, I guess no one told my wife that bit thankfully. I would imagine that you adapt to what cash you have to hand....I started my life after leaving the comfort of my parents home in a crappy 1 bedroomed flat with my girlfriend and a baby on the way.
The surroundings were crap, we moaned about it daily, hourly on the weekends when the idiots on the estate started doing when they did best on weekends, but together we were happy sat it the crappy flat, in the crud end of town and eating Tesco value food.
I think I started replying to this thread with the same thought as I have now - happiness is what you make it, whether you are filthy rich or that hard up you are struggling to find two pennies to rub together.
I look back at the flat, damp and small as it was, and wouldn't change a thing now - thats part of what made us a family and thats when my happy place started to become clear. The last 5 years has been a bit better as I am actually enjoying my job.
Thats it - my muddlings out and over
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no i dont think its money thats why so many city folk downsize and run to the country , to me waiting for the next set on a summers evening after 5 hours in the atlantic, knowing a bbq and afew beers and music on the beach is to follow , what else would you need? or up in Yorkshire a walk to the top withens and back from Haworth