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Happiness begins at 50 claims new research (Happiest times and the good life starts at 50)
The Telegraph ^ | 05/18/2010 | Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent

Posted on 05/18/2010 7:50:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

This is good because so far 40-44 have frankly sucked.


21 posted on 05/18/2010 8:43:35 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: dfwgator

I like Larry Miller. ‘Speaks fluent Hebrew.


22 posted on 05/18/2010 8:43:49 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind

Like hell!


23 posted on 05/18/2010 8:44:43 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 481 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: tsomer

Two minutes. Two steeeking minutes.


24 posted on 05/18/2010 8:45:48 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 481 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: onedoug

And of course his “Five Stages of Drinking” is another classic.


25 posted on 05/18/2010 8:50:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: null and void

WINDFALL!


26 posted on 05/18/2010 8:53:11 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Ahh, to be 44 again......


27 posted on 05/18/2010 8:56:34 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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To: Hamilcar_Barca

I picked a bad time to turn 50. While Obama is POTUS.


28 posted on 05/18/2010 9:35:55 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here in America the 50+ folks are competing with illegals and recent college graduates for minimum wage jobs.


29 posted on 05/18/2010 10:11:01 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Flip Both Houses)
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To: SeekAndFind

Umm...I think they, the researchers, have missed the real reason.

Up until age 50 most folks are caring for dependent children. In the decade after 50-years most will be clear of such dependentcy - a huge stress releaser.


30 posted on 05/18/2010 11:03:23 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: sionnsar

Ouch. Guess you haven’t yet hit that magical fifty, huh?


31 posted on 05/19/2010 3:15:25 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SeekAndFind

So I’m 11 now?


32 posted on 05/19/2010 4:33:03 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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Here in America the 50+ folks are competing with illegals and recent college graduates for minimum wage jobs.

It is my observation that in many large companies ( those with over 2,000 employees), when bad times hit, the older ones tend to go because their salaries are higher and the work they do could possibly be contracted out or taken over by someone 10 or 15 years younger.

In other words, more than racial or gender or orientation related discrimination, AGE DISCRIMINATION is rampant in this country and there seems to be little can be done about it.

Those who are in their 50's who get laid off are in a precarious position... at a time when the real jobless rate is 17%, you have to compete with lots of people like you, younger people who are willing to take the job for less pay, or shift to another career or even take the job for significantly less pay than you used to be paid.

You're too young to retire, yet people won't hire.

Yet, people in their 50's are supposed to be the happiest in times like these.
33 posted on 05/19/2010 6:35:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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