Happiness is a very important thing to have to live a healthy and enjoyable life, doing something that is not desired can revoke happiness and cause one to live a stressful life. Having a larger income “is not an important factor” for accomplishing “greater happiness”. Doctor Boyce, lead researcher in psychology states that high paying work leads to more stress and decreased amounts of happiness due to the lack …show more content…
Some people crave the luxurious lifestyle that can be lived from making vast amounts of money from higher paying work and this motivates them to not do something fulfilling which ends up being something they enjoy, not all people have passions that must be lower paying. “If you don’t earn enough, you will be dissatisfied, but once you earn enough, extra money counts for very little,” making more money by doing high paying work will set you living at higher standards, which is what some people desire over following their dreams and doing something that pays lower than their job (Rigby,