How much money do I need to earn to "be a man"?

When do you feel 'good enough'?

£30K per year?

£50K?

£100K?

More?

What’s the number that you have to reach in order for you to feel good enough? To feel man enough?

Even though it shouldn’t matter to many men, it does. Because that’s what they’ve been brought up believing: that more money = more manly.

What happens if that all gets stripped away? What’s left for the man underneath?

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