Happiness? £50,000. Once. Americans Need Not Apply

Surely somewhere old (and I do mean old) Bob Fludd is laughing his head off.

Seems some bay leaf crowned idiot has been running around claiming that happiness maxes out at an annual salary of $75k.  Sounds suspiciously like a plot to get most people to try harder for a promotion.  Sort of the motivational HR manager’s equivalent of dangling the carrot in front of the horse.

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Guardian (9/6 ’10): “The price of happiness? £50,000pa”

Well as it happens, the figure is right dead on, but the terms are incorrect.  As Bob’s good buddy Hilary Mantel well knows, just once is enough :)

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  1. Joe Manausa says:

    That’s interesting, I would have thought the number would have exceeded $100K (US), but I do agree that there is a ceiling threshold. Rarely have I seen money-motivated people in the real estate industry, other than those well-below that magic ceiling.

    • johnm says:

      Joe -

      Perhaps in a way you’re making the same point I was, that different groups (say UK / Commonwealth novelists versus American Realtors) would have quite different ceilings.

      By the way, I took the liberty of modifying the link you specified,
      http://www.manausa.com/ instead of
      https://www.manausa.com/ … presuming you didn’t mean to put up the secure version.

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