[Closed] How happy are you/how much do you earn?

Job 😯

Salary 😳

Very
Enough

Job - 6
Salary - enough to be paying back student loan on the old scottish system

I love my work, 8/10 for happiness, would be a 10/10 if not for minor health problems.
Self- employed, so lucky to earn anything much. Enough to contribute to household bills and the odd jolly.

Living in Reading, its a shithole , no offence to anyone else unfortunate enough to be living here but you should move up north and see what your missing.

Everything else is better than it was this time last year (ever seen a grown man cry?) so can't complain.

£27.5k

9/10
more than average.

oh and reading is not exactly a shining beacon of the south....

There's little correlation between money and happiness.

Fairly.
Enough that I should be.

Lots
Very

but I have also earned less and been happy and been unhappy while still earning lots.

I think if you are paid lots of money because the job is horrible you will be less happy than someone who loves their job and is paid less.

not very/**** all

In 2007 I was on £26k p/a, largest annual salary for me to date. It was also the most prolonged period of unhappiness in my life so far, didn't think it was possible to be so miserable at work; 0/10.

Now I'm self employed and have just about enough money to cover bills, but absolutely none spare. (Don't know what that is out of 10...... it could be 0 or 10!) If it's not vital I don't buy it, but I'm really pretty happy at the moment 9/10

Same as bunnyhop.... self employed/unemployed

Love my job 10/10 😀
but lucky to earn anything at the momment 🙁

Job 🙁
salary 🙂

balanced by:

Mountain biking - 😀

11 'O' levels, 2 'A' levels, Foundation Course in A&D and a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design. 15 years 'in the trade' and I'm still below the current average salary (though I put that down to my lack of ambition).

Happy, mind.

Life is very good, well paid job which is rather boring, but very easy, great kids and a gorgeous missus who i love to bits. Only problem is im desparate to move abroad, either France/Spain or Oz, but the missus is having none of it. Having said that she is umming and ahhing about Oz at the moment, so i'll see.

I'm still below the current average salary

So are the majority of people.

Do project work so happiness varies from time to time. Currently working from home on something interesting so happy though wouldn't want to do it all the time as would get lonely. Salary is quite high and has allowed me to live in a village near the Surrey Hills so that's nice! Willing to take a salary cut if I could find an interesting job close to home.

I'd be much happier if I could spend more time with my wife and kids. Shifts, unavoidable overtime, and my wife's job mean it's a lot less that I would like. Ships in the night sort of thing.

Work itself - loathe it sometimes, enjoy it sometimes, most days it doesn't put me up or down. I'm very grateful for the job security though, especially having a family. I think the pay is fair.

If I ever had enough money to give up work and be a home dad, then it might make a difference to my happiness. Until then, probably doesn't affect it much. It gets spent however much it is!

FWIW the most screwed up person I know is (was?) in line for over 100M when their dad pops off. In some ways they've got everything on a plate, but in other ways they've got nothing. I wouldn't swap, even now.

Happy enough with my job.

Earn enough to pay the bills and buy a few nice bikes, which is what makes me happy.

Very happy.
Flush.

You can't buy me love. But you can buy me a nice shiny bike, a bigger tent and a bottle of Old Thumper.

I was reasonably happy in my job, and ha turned down the opportunity for seriously bigger bucks as it would have meant more time working and travelling and a lot more stress.

Very happy now that I've retired (though the stress element has risen again....)

Happiness 8/10 want to move back to Wales and hills ... Bicester is rubbish!!

Job great and earn enough

Work, hmm, some days 0/10, really good days its maybe a 7/10 but never higher. Although to be fair i'm lucky as nothing i do will ultimateyl kill someone, i dont; scrape dead people up off roads or wipe old peoples bottoms all of which would not be what i woudl consider a great job for me.
Pay: good but theres a pretty distinct lack of correlation between money/being happy, having more can lead to less in many respects. The more you get the more greedy you get etc. Well, thats what i've found anyway ....

Hapiness...8/10
Job...8/10
Salary...5/10

Happiest times have honestly been when I've had the least.
I remember splitting with a partner some years ago. Had to sell everything, & I mean everything, to pay off debts she had run up, & even then had to pay off a huge loan over 2 years. I remember walking in to town one sunny Friday lunchtime after the final payment. I had no car, & I only had a few ££'s to myself but the feeling of being out of debt & about to make a new start was incredible.
I remind myself of that feeling whenever money worries come around.

happy yes 14 i ride bikes couldn't be better tbh I have the best biking mates ever just GCSE's aren't all fun.

one of then i get to make a bike for a GCSE cool or what ?

salary well i get pocket money does that count it would be £8 a week lol

Happiness 8/10, twins on the way so lots going on.
Job 7/10, bike shop work is good but after promotion seem to end up dealing with all the problems.
Money 3/10, bike shop and high salary seem to be incompatible.

job 6/10
money 10/10

a lot of doh equals lots of hassle pressure & dull management meetings.

Was ok till this morning. WAS getting paid £25k
Told this morning that the place I work/ed at is closing as of.......NOW 👿

Apart from that I'm good. I went to a funeral straight from being 'redunantised', then went home and built up a SingleSpeed, nearly 😀

So work is 0/10
Life 8/10

life 🙂
work 🙂 with a hint of :-0 looking over my shoulder
salary can't complain

Work 8/9 /10
life 10/10
Cash 7/10

soooo......not bad really, if i wake up in the morning, all is well, if i don't wake up, i is dead i spose.

hhhhmmm ... to be frank not that happy but then things can be worst so I am in the middle.

In conclusion, money can't buy happiness; but it does let you be miserable in style!

Interesting - there does seem to be some kind of negative correlation between earning lots of money and being happy. Spose the problem is the higher up you get in your given field generally the more hours you work and the more stressful it is.

I'm off to go and do Garburn Pass now - woooo! 😛

Job is about 5/10 at the moment, but home life is a rocking 10/10.
Moneywise, I earn enough to keep me in food that's not Morrison's Economy range

Life 🙂
Work 🙂 (but highly stressed and temporary contract so not sure how much longer that will last)
Pay 😀 (as above)

Who was it who said "the best things in life are free, but it takes money to enjoy them in comfort"?

I test Condoms for a living. Currently developing an ultra thin version for larger males. We tend to use Polish girls (harder working) for both the oral and missionary work. Hours are long but it is rewarding work.

I test Condoms for a living. Currently developing an ultra thin version for larger males

You have to do 'it' with larger males?

Very Happy
Absolutely skinted
Arrival of second child while both me and mrs are freelance may have something to do with both of those states.

Job 8/10
Happiness 9/10
Money 8/10

Love my job although last year was a bit shit but the things that went on come with my role. Money yeah I'm paid pretty good and considering what I was on 5 years ago for more or less the same job it's very good. However, in current climate best thing about job is 99.9%+ security it offers.

job is pretty shoddy but jolly interesting, it's getting better though. 7/10
Happiness - varies between 1/10 to 10/10 on a regular basis.
Money 8/10 but I was unhappy all the time when I had no money and just buying basic food stuffs was a struggle, at least it's not an issue now.

Job - best one I've had since leaving college in 1997, even my parents have noticed I'm chilled, settled and happy about work, all this despite the 146mile round trip daily commute and working nearly every weekend since I started last February 😆

Salary - Not the most I've ever earned (anyone else remeber the telecomms boom of the first part of this century??) but well above average, enough to pay the bills and have some left over for fun type things, yey!!

Jobs great, working from home today so I can spend a bit of time with the wife and newborn twins too. The work it's self is OK, being a middle management bean counter is never going to set the world on fire but the pay and perks are pretty good, and considering I never even got any usefull qualifications I can't complain. Taking nothing for granted though given the recession, but now glad I decided to work for a utility company all those years ago.