Earning more money; bagging the fabulous job you have always wanted ...

[MarillionFan]

I'm never happy. Bah humbug.

[DimPrawn]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

[MarillionFan]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

Spit lubricates just as well. Read that in Womans Weekly.

[NickFitz]

Spit lubricates just as well. Read that on Mumsnet.

FTFY

[MicrosoftBob]

Having the missus let me buy a Nikon 200-400mm F4 without getting buried in the garden afterwards, is why earning money matters

You can spend it on wine, women, and toys and waste the rest

[greenlake]

....average 9.75"

....Irresistible to women

So, size DOES matter!

[SpontaneousOrder]

Depends whether you're supposing that it's the money that makes you happy, or what you do to earn that money which makes you happy.
Apart from being needed for the essentials, money doesn't bring happiness. They just tend to coincide as what brings real happiness tends to bring money too.

no man may be smaller than his money

-- Fransisco D'anconia.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

Although it's earning those choices & freedoms which really brings the true happiness - the money is incidental.
That's why so many celebrities & lottery winners self-destruct when they hit the big time.

I suppose that a helicopter drop of cash could give you the freedom to do what you want, and that you could do great things. But then you're probably (if you really would do great things) the kind of person that would have made good money anyway.

[unixman]

Heard once that money fails to bring happiness with one exception. It allows you to live in a nice place, and that can genuinely improve your happiness level. I broadly agree. On the other hand, wasn't it Samuel Peyps who wrote that money "sweetens all things" ?

[SueEllen]

Heard once that money fails to bring happiness with one exception. It allows you to live in a nice place, and that can genuinely improve your happiness level.

Not if your f***ing neighbours annoy you which commonly happens in the UK however big your house is.