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Wasn't there a study published recently showing that money really does buy happiness, up to a certain point of diminishing returns?
by na85 9y ago
Wasn't there a study published recently showing that money really does buy happiness, up to a certain point of diminishing returns?
- grzm 9y agoThe one I recall being referenced is from Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman (of Thinking Fast and Slow fame): http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/150671/Happiness-Is-Love-and-75K.aspx http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/150671/Happiness-Is-Lo...
- byoung2 9y agoI can attest that I was much happier at $80k than I was at $30k, but not much happier at $110k or $140k, less happy at $155k, miserable at $175k (becoming director of engineering). Now I'm at $200k but it's the remote part that makes me happiest.
- senatorobama 9y agowow, that's an amazing salary for remote. what company?
- byoung2 9y agoThe company is Surge, LLC (https://www.surgeforward.com https://www.surgeforward.com), and they offer developers for hire. It is 1099 contract work with at least 40 hours a week guaranteed.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoJust curious, what tech stack do you use?
- byoung2 9y agoYou get matched to projects based on skill set. I only advertised myself as PHP and Node, so that's what I've been assigned to (75% node/angular/mysql, 25% PHP/angular/mysql).