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Does Money Buy Happiness? Depends on How You Look at It
12 months ago Leah Arnold-Smeets Career Direction, Career Goals, Leah Arnold-Smeets, Work-Life Balance 1
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If you’ve ever teetered back and forth trying to figure out whether money could buy you happiness or not, then you’re not alone. Choosing a career can often seem like a trade-off between wealth and happiness. Do you take the higher paying job and sacrifice time with your family, or do you choose the job that allows you more freedom and flexibility but warrants a smaller paycheck? See if your answer changes after reading what research has to say about the money-happiness argument.
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be successful, or even wanting nice things, because that’s your prerogative – but where does it end? We live in a society where we’re always striving to attain bigger and better, saying things like, “When I have this…” or “When I make more money…” and we forget to live in the present and be content with what we have now. However, when we ultimately reach our goal of buying this or that, or earning more money, we become accustomed to it and take it for granted, and then we want more. We’re insatiable and impulsive creatures when it comes to money and success, and we mistakenly believe that the more money we have, the happier we will be. I think we have it all wrong, folks.