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Comment by jaunkst | Hacker News Reader

Why work where your not happy if you don't have too? Demand + skill =p opportunities. Opportunities + happy relationship = I give a shit. I know making a living is important but I don't think working under this concept is sustainable. I have been in this scenario and it's dehumanistic and unsustainable in markets where your employees have options.

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Many (most?) people don't have great options, and so the choice is often between a livable wage and unhappiness, or poverty and unhappiness.

Happiness takes place in your head, typically based on a series of judgements you make about what's been happening around you "oh that was nice", "hmmm I didn't like that". That means it a relative phenomena and can be in your control if you can get concious enough about the stream of judgements your make throughout the day.

Bearing that in mind it makes more sense to optimize for good health. If a job is causing your health to deteriorate perhaps it's time to stop? There are a lot of happy workaholics in software

for me, opportunities + i give a shit = happy relationship; Lets work on awesome, compelling problems together, and if (as an employer) you enable me giving a shit, we'll have a happy relationship.

Like, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", if you're solving an interesting problem and I'm on-board solving that same problem, we'll both work in a way that enables us solving that interesting problem. The bit about Emergency Services really resonated with me.

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