#66

Are you me posting under a different account this is eerie man.

#67

50%!!! that’s an enormous amount!
then if you factor in ‘life work’ like doing the washing up or whatever then you hardly end up with any time at all

:neutral_face:

#68

It is kind of future proof, but you’ve got to keep your skills up to date. As they come in and out of fashion a huge amount. Flexibility is good, as I contract, by the hour, so by and large if I get the work done and work for 40 hours a week, it’s up to me how I do that time.

On a sunny day I used to leave at 4pm and sit in the garden getting hammered with the cats…and make up time whenever.

#69

Yeah you are right, and so ends my brief flirtation with optimism

#72

This. But without the reading.

#73

Get a dishwasher, ffs.

#74

I don’t get it either.

I’d like to be able to afford to live independently, but I’m not interested in things like ‘security’ or owning a house. I have no idea what sort of job I want to do either. They all sound shit.

What irks me more than anything is the competitiveness, the delusions of grandeur and the naivety that a lot of people I know seem to have. Maybe it’s because I live in a neocon area, but there are people I know in their early 20s who seem to think they’re about to walk into jobs paying £40-50K a year. People who seem to be driven by the idea of making a lot of money for the sake it, believing it will make them happy, but don’t seem to have any particular interests, passions or dreams.

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#75

“People who seem to be driven by the idea of making a lot of money for the sake it, believing it will make them happy, but don’t seem to have any particular interests, passions or dreams.”

Ideal corporate drones then.

#76

Question to everyone…

Do you think you’d be noticeably happier if you earned double your current salary?

#77

I read something about this - there’s not a lot of research done I don’t think, but the research they gave done suggests that increases in salary do make you happier ( I think they were measuring happiness, it might have been contentment or something like that), but not by that much
I think it was on a scale of 1 - 10, and every time you doubled your salary your general happiness would go up by 0.5, so it would increase, but gets increasingly harder to boost your happiness by increases in salary

So yeH probably makes a bit of a difference, but not much
There’s probably easier changes people can make in there life to get happier

#78

Yeah, reckon so. Or at least wouldn’t have as many worries which I guess is the same thing?

#79

For exactly the same job?

Yeah, absolutely. Would clear all debts, cover child care for future kid, indulge my hobbies (i.e. buy more beer and shit hats), allow us to go on more holidays…

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#81

Yep. If I could build a cushion, meaning I could not work at all for say 6 months maybe a year…I would be more picky about jobs and retrain myself etc.

Having said that, as it is, my girlfriend earns less than me (about half) so I pick up a lot of the joint bills and pay outright whenever we go out, so I am effectively supporting her too. I can’t be reckless really as it effects us both. So the thought of ‘any’ time out of work, cushion or not makes me twitchy.

But I going back to my earlier comments, I know I could earn more, working further away, travelling much more each day. But having been there and done that, I do enjoy having more free time.

#82

Nah, I’m already paid far too much. Doubling it would just be embarrassing, frankly.

#83

I could easily earn another £15k if I left and got a similar job in London. But currently it takes me 20 minutes to get to work, and I far value that more than any pay rise I’d get commuting to London. But still I’m stuck in a rut.

#84

jumping in here with a question- would the extra money in LDN not also be offset by much higher living costs?

#85

If I moved yes, but I’d be commuting. It takes just under an hour to Victoria, and then wherever I’d need to go in London. I guess it would be about £4,000 for an annual travel card. Can’t be bothered with that.

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#86

Yeah I’ve looking into this - an extra £4000 ish a year in commuting costs, and another 10 hours min a week in lost commuting time - just doesn’t add up!!!

#88

exactly this word for word

#89

Oh aye