Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Your job has more effect on your happiness than your social life does.

With the development of the modern society, more people are well paid and living a welloff life, in which process happiness, instead of success has become individuals’ top priority and life philosophy. It is no surprise that some people, if not a majority, may therefore argue that social life is playing a more important role in our happiness in this era. However, in my opinion, it is our jobs that have more effects on our happiness.

In the first place, the main reason for my propensity is that we work to make money, which is used to cover all the living expenses, including our social activities. There is no doubt that the more purchasing power we have, the better service or even life quality we can afford. Consider, for example, without a decent job, people may suffer from poverty and starvation. They must work for extensive hours or do lots of extra exhausting jobs, such as collecting and selling used cans and bottles, even at weekends and during holidays in order to make a living. In this case, what kind of social life could they have? Without basic needs satisfied by good jobs, seldom is there any happiness derived from social life. That is to say, a good job is the basis for happiness.

What is more, the mood got in work also has a huge influence on our happiness. Apparently, on average, we have to work at least 40 hours a week, and the time we spend in working is much longer than that in social activities, which makes working more important in our lives. For instance, my father is a general electrical engineer who is always confronted with lots of problems in his work. Every Sunday when we go to the suburb for a picnic, I can easily guess how his work is going on by observing his mood. If he talks a lot and interacts with us more, I know his project is going well. Otherwise, there must be something confusing or annoying. In consequence, I believe that our jobs can influence our mood, and without a good mood we cannot feel happy or even enjoy our social life.

Admittedly, there might be some possibilities that our social life does have an influence on our happiness. For example, we can be relaxed after a refreshing drink in a bar, or we can meet some friends with similar interests with us by playing basketball together, which will certainly make us happy. However, social life is only a small part of life, and as presented above, without doing very well in our jobs, we cannot afford our social life and keep happy for a long time, since we have to worry about so much about jobs and lives.

In conclusion, based on the reasoning above, I have to maintain that the job has more effect on our happiness than the social life does.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2250.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 484.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64876033058 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52041050102 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49173553719 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 699.3 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.94265232975 283% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9326787602 48.9658058833 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.142857143 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0476190476 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.85714285714 5.45110844103 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 29.0 4.53405017921 640% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179046664184 0.236089414692 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0666836217826 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577198505088 0.0737576698707 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0622828109838 0.150856017488 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644631409053 0.0645574589148 100% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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