How much money do you need to be happy? Hint: Your sex life matters more | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
One thing I like about biology is that there is no pretense of anything else being of comparable importance in life…
[C]hoose a career based on your assessment of other people in that career. Your next step is to focus on social relationships, because in terms of happiness, job satisfaction is very important but social relationships are most important.
And by social relations, most researchers mean sex – with one, consistent partner. So consider giving your career aspirations a little less weight than you give your aspirations for sex. For those of you who like a tangible goal, David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College says, “Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” He adds, to the joy of all who are underemployed, “It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.”
