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12.19 A person’s job has more effects on his or her happiness than this person’s social life does.
Isn’t it cool to encounter a job promotion because of your outstanding performances during the investigation recently? Aren’t you excited to receive to the premiums due to your novel idea to improve the finance products? Of course just as everybody enjoys the pressure a job brings, so do I. And I even suppose the process of happiness pursuit is more positively affected by a job than by social life.
To begin with, a job endows you salary, more or less, which can serve the physical and mental requirement of both of your own and you family members. Nobody denies the fact that the basic needs, such as salt, oil, clothes, water, all account for a certain part of finance in a family. A feeling of being hungry for a day is not that good. Apart from material facet, the wages also bring you spiritual enjoyment. I can’t think of a better example than my father, who says that there is nothing else that can make him happier than the moment I receive a gift from him with big smile. And it is the money my father earns with his job that pays for the gift.
In addition, a job offers you an opportunity to acquire a sense of achievement, making you acknowledge your merits to this world. During work, you may unavoidably confront difficulties, if you can solve a tough problem with your wisdom, you would be the one every one praises. My brother, a portfolio manager, promised to a businessman to carry out an investment plan to gain 30% profits under the circumstance that all his colleages thought it was an impossible task. He did market research thoroughly and carefully. When the final date came, to his surprise, he got 35% of profits. Never did he have the feeling that he was the focus superiors speak highly of, a kind of accomplishment anything else cannot exceed.
It’s true that social life is an indispensable part of life since we can’t always bury ourselves in the work. We should at least have recreation activities, such as going shopping with friends, watching a movie with a relative or going for travel if available. But from my experience, it is only a small part of our life since we have activities related to work from Monday to Friday, and even on weekends we have to prepare ourselves for the next week. What’s more, the pleasure resulting from social life is built on the foundation of a job which provides economic support for the ticket for a movie, commodities having been bought, and travel cheque.
To sum up, I can safely draw the conclusion that happiness relates more to job than to social life. |
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