Happiness is...

[tsptalk]

"Americans grow happier as they age, surveys find. And a new Pew Research Center survey shows the tendency is holding up as the economy tanks...."

STUDY: Happiness Is ... Being Old, Male and Republican

 

[Silverbird]

Meanwhile, the life of college students...worried but a resiliant bunch - not as spoiled as you might think.
Recession causing high anxiety for students

Poll shows they're worried about finances and the pressure on their parents

AP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30820384//

 

[tsptalk]

Students are supposed to be anxious. When I was a student, I ate macaroni & cheese 4 or 5 times a week for dinner. No cell phone, laptop, texting, ipods, video games, etc. My car cost me $825 (cash) as no one gave car loans to students making $3.25 an hour working at McDonalds.

There has to be some benefit to getting old. When you're young, you just don't realize that the struggle was life itself, and happiness was there all along. Happiness is just acceptance of what is - or is that contentment?

 

[Frixxxx]

Meanwhile, the life of college students...worried but a resiliant bunch - not as spoiled as you might think.
Recession causing high anxiety for students

Poll shows they're worried about finances and the pressure on their parents

AP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30820384//

From article:

Josh Donahue, 23, an Oregon State University economics graduate, is living on food stamps. First in his family with a university degree, he stays with relatives and scrapes even for a menial job instead of the bank gig he'd dreamed about.

Best Line outta the article:

"A degree in economics," he said, "doesn't really prepare you to understand the economy very well."

Then what the hell did he learn?:suspicious: I could understand a comment like that from a Physics major.

This is where he should learn the term: REFUND!!:laugh:

 

[Silverbird]

whoo boy, did I find out during undergrad Economics is not the same as finance (unless you are allowed to specialize or branch out to other related disciplines). Economics teaches you how to look at the entire world and U.S. economy, and hopefully a little about how to judge the competitivness of a firm or industry. Economics felt Wayyyy tooo Academic and high brow, and to me the econometric modeling smacked of...well...an attempt to use Science to explain Finance. I was a 5 year because I ended up dropping out of economics (changing majors).

Economics...to work for a bank? Did he want to be an investment manager or something, and judge the competitiveness of firms? His economic modeling wouldn't impress most banks much. Wrong major, what about finance - at least that way he could be a bookkeeper or the like for for a firm....or a Business degree teaches you some of the above, but also teaches you some of the nuts and bolts accounting etc for running a small business or the financial side of a corporation (depending on your specialty). What's he doing, studying the theoretical over the practical? Physics may actually be an apt comparison depending on what classes he took.

 

[alevin]

Lol, in my early post-college 20's in an oil and gas boom town, the only employed guy I knew that had an econ degree, was an oil well logger. I'm sure he made good money, but not because of the degree, I betcha! I routinely fell asleep in my undergrad econ classes, they seemed awfully esoteric to my everyday life back then-I was an A student in my major but B-student in econ-not interested enough to get an A. Am glad I actually remember the terms so I can read the papers today and "get it" anyway.