I have the link
posted below for this website.
I use a site
called digg.com. It's a great site
that allows its users to chose popular sites and post them in a common
place. The users can then "digg"
the site if they like it and make it more popular. That is how I found this website.
According
to researchers at Stanford and the University of Toronto, people who are paid
by the hour are happier with the amount of money they make. This is because they remember how much
they make based on how many hours they work, so more time at work means more
money - rather than the same amount.
To quote the website, those people "begin comparing the value of their
time to the amount of their happiness."
After
discovering their hourly wage, people who were paid a set wage began thinking
of how much they made per hour, they began acting like hourly paid people.
I,
as I'm sure most of you, can testify to this. During the summer, I do yard work and am paid hourly. Whenever I choose to leave for the day,
I think about how many hours I did that day. Then, everything I buy I use as a reference to how many
hours I would have to work for it.
A twenty-dollar item would be over two hours worth of work. However, if
I needed the item, I would certainly buy it. However, if it were just for fun, I would have to give it a
second thought - if it was worth the two hours of work or not.
Oddly
enough, I can remember doing this with something else. Rather than think about how many hours
of work that would be, it got to the point where I would think how many cases
of beer an item would be. (I now personally
believe this to be a sign of being an alcoholic and have hence stopped.)
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