Insufficient savings put the frowns on S'poreans
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SINGAPORE: Singaporeans rate their personal savings as the area they are most unhappy with, according to a study called "The Happiness Report".
Conducted by global communications firm, Grey Group, the study found that nearly half of the respondents reported a lack of sufficient savings in the last six months.
The second area that respondents said they were least happy with was personal expenditure over the last half year, garnering 40.5 per cent of responses.
The next three areas that made Singaporeans unhappy were their confidence in the economy (27 per cent), job satisfaction (23 per cent), and work-life balance (21 per cent).
The study was conducted in June this year with 200 respondents aged 18 to over 60.
The study also revealed the top five things that Singaporeans were most happy about.
Area of residence topped the happiness index, with about 78 per cent ranking Singapore as the best place to stay in the world.
Close family ties ranked second (74 per cent), spirituality came in third, while social support networks took fourth spot and personal time rounded off the top five on the happiness index.
The study also discovered that baby boomers (45-49 years old) were the happiest people with an overall net happiness score of 11.4 per cent, 4.6 percentage points higher than the young adult segment (18-29 years old).
It also found that men were happier than women at the workplace, with 46.08 per cent of men found to be happy at their jobs as compared to 37.75 per cent for women.
Shirley Ang, an account manager, said: "In schools these days, it's very competitive, so everyone's competing with each other, challenging each other.
"Back during the days of baby boomers and all, it was probably an easier life in a way. Hard in terms of earning money, but easier in terms of (the amount of) stress they are feeling from society."
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DUH!
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how to compare???
Back then there was no handphone, PC were extremely rare... Ppl are satisfied with simple life...
Now they need phones, need electronic gadgets... more complicated, harder to satisfy because more critera to fufill...
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Ahem. Stress is what you give yourself, money is what you have to make.
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aside to adjustment in lifestyles and wasteful habits....women should also adjust their expectation levels which is the sole cause of unhappiness....women will always be unhappy over the slightest discomfort.....with or without menses....
i suggest the govt set up more counselling for women to be more psychologically adaptable....
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and to add on with the unprecedented women charter and biased gender policies uniquely to singapore, women here are still unbelievably unhappy....
they should be dragged by the hair and thrown down from car bonnet like how Qaddafi was treated and end with a beautiful gunshot
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Sigh! Earn little, save little or no save, sad!
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of course the middle aged are happiest lah.
They have already enjoyed the benefits of economic growth. They bought cars and houses while it was still cheap.
The youngster nowadays of course unhappy also. Cannot afford house, and now car also cannot afford, plus have to compete for contract jobs with cheap foreigners.
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Originally posted by deathmaster:
of course the middle aged are happiest lah.
They have already enjoyed the benefits of economic growth. They bought cars and houses while it was still cheap.
The youngster nowadays of course unhappy also. Cannot afford house, and now car also cannot afford, plus have to compete for contract jobs with cheap foreigners.
My uncles in late forties not happy. Got retrenched , keep finding job still cannot find. Retrenched second time.
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Originally posted by gorgorlokaychyong:
My uncles in late forties not happy. Got retrenched , keep finding job still cannot find. Retrenched second time.
Second time retrenched,lol! -
Originally posted by gorgorlokaychyong:
My uncles in late forties not happy. Got retrenched , keep finding job still cannot find. Retrenched second time.
can give tuition? security guard he mind? can drive, be a TD?
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How to survive?
How?
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air, food and water.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
air, food and water.
Air is free (currently).
Food and water not free.