# How happy are you, right now in your life?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-right-now-in-your-life/534675>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 2, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-right-now-in-your-life/534675 "2010-04-02T01:09:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-right-now-in-your-life/534675/61 "2010-04-08T00:47:35Z")

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8

The only thing holding me back is that retirement is a little more than fours years away, and I hate waiting.

Other than that, things are pretty darn good.

Also, you happened to ask this on a nice, sunny, unseasonably warm spring day. Ask me again in January when it’s minus 20 and my answer might be different.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-right-now-in-your-life/534675/62 "2010-04-08T01:02:41Z")

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My personal life is a solid 9, but my work situation drags the score down to a 7 overall.

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**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-happy-are-you-right-now-in-your-life/534675/63 "2010-04-08T01:10:15Z")

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I’m content pretty much all the time. So 7.

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