{"id":1497421,"date":"2024-10-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1497421"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:55:00","slug":"the-key-to-happiness-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-key-to-happiness-in-america\/1497421\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key To Happiness In America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The Key To Happiness In America?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In the United States, having a job or career that you enjoy is considered a key cornerstone for leading a fulfilling life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/33287\/share-of-us-respondents-who-reflect-on-important-elements-for-a-fulfilling-life\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck reports, <\/a>according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2023\/09\/14\/what-makes-for-a-fulfilling-life\/\">survey<\/a>\u00a0by Pew Research Center, <strong>71 percent of respondents said that having a job or career that they like is either extremely or very important to feeling satisfied with their lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/33287\/share-of-us-respondents-who-reflect-on-important-elements-for-a-fulfilling-life\/\" title=\"Infographic: The Key to Happiness? | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next most popular perceived element for a fulfilling life was having close friends, with 61 percent of respondents picking the option.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1484\/families\/\">Having children<\/a>, a lot of money or getting married were less highly rated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of having children, 42 percent of respondents said it was not important, while 44 percent said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/797\/weddings-and-marriage\/\">marriage<\/a>\u00a0was not important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women were slightly more likely than men to say that their job or career is important to achieving a feeling of fulfillment,<\/strong> at 74 percent compared to their counterparts\u2019 69 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Men were slightly more likely to say having children (29 percent versus women\u2019s 22 percent) or marriage (28 percent for men versus 18 percent for women) were key to such perceived metrics of success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 10\/20\/2024 &#8211; 16:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/key-happiness-america\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/key-happiness-america<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Key To Happiness In America? In the United States, having a job or career that you enjoy is considered a key cornerstone for leading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1497422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}