I skimmed to the last section, and started laughing when I found this:
> Elsewhere, studies have shown that an unemployed person would need an annual income of £250,000 to compensate for the psychological injury of not having a job. [26]
Ha ha ha! With that much annual income as compensation, and the time available from not working, one could run one's own business / lifestyle business / startup / charitable organisation, at a loss, and hire a number of people as employees, if only for company. I suggest this figure is a touch high.
Other ideas of what to do if one is unable to work and has an amusingly high annual income: write that novel, paint watercolours and have them fashioned into jigsaw puzzles, do a phd, do another phd, start one's own research program into improved happiness metrics, buy productive land and stock it with goats, run for local government, develop a serious drinking problem, breed a better kind of potato, become an investigative journalist and travel the world, look after one's family, sit quietly and reflect upon what matters in life.
[26] Nicola Bacon et al, The State of Happiness, London 2010.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 25.9 ms ] thread> Elsewhere, studies have shown that an unemployed person would need an annual income of £250,000 to compensate for the psychological injury of not having a job. [26]
Ha ha ha! With that much annual income as compensation, and the time available from not working, one could run one's own business / lifestyle business / startup / charitable organisation, at a loss, and hire a number of people as employees, if only for company. I suggest this figure is a touch high.
Other ideas of what to do if one is unable to work and has an amusingly high annual income: write that novel, paint watercolours and have them fashioned into jigsaw puzzles, do a phd, do another phd, start one's own research program into improved happiness metrics, buy productive land and stock it with goats, run for local government, develop a serious drinking problem, breed a better kind of potato, become an investigative journalist and travel the world, look after one's family, sit quietly and reflect upon what matters in life.
[26] Nicola Bacon et al, The State of Happiness, London 2010.