Working hard for the money

People will probably never be happy their salary. We all want more, at least if your not Donald Trump or Richard Branson, and we all work hard but nothing really change.

A recent study show that there are actually some factors correlated to higher pay which are impossible for a person to control.

• Taller people make more money and so do lefties.
  
• Male and female drinkers make more than non-drinkers, men who hit the bar at least once a month—thereby satisfying the definition of social drinkers—seem to make even more.
  
• Married men tend to make more than men who have never been married.
  
• Young urban women earn more than young urban men
  
• Men who go into Christian ministry will make less money than their female counterparts.
  
• Women choose college majors that pay less—majors such as education, psychology, and healthcare. Men choose more lucrative majors, like engineering and mathematics.
  
• Cohabitating lesbians earn about 10 percent more annually than married women. They also earn more than cohabitating, unmarried, heterosexual women.

So what does that leave me? I'm tall which is good, but I'm not a lefty. I do drink, but I do not hit the bar at least once a month. I'm not married and I'm not a man, but I do live in an urban area. I might not be considered as young any more though... I was in Christian ministry but left after a year (looking at the stats I shouldn't). My major was Computer Science so that's at least something. I'm neither lesbian or cohabitating so that doesn't fit the profile either.

I do work a lot of hours and another study shows that 37 % of workers with an income of $100 000 or more work 41-50 hours a week, whereas 8% of those with household income less than $25 000 work as many hours. Which to me give some hope that putting in all those hours actually will pay of. Eventually.