So higher you get on the career ladder the more health you take in terms of damage. Does anyone know how to work around that? Only at rank 4 and getting sent to the sick bay every other day now.

There's something wrong with the numbers as you get higher in level. The steam forums bring it up enough times. The developer tried explaining it away just like you're trying to do, but it's a problem with the numbers. Basically, the values on the career tree for -happiness and -health are being multiplied by the rank or something. It creates ridiculous -health and -happiness values near the top where the salary isn't really enough to keep you happy with all the bought items.

The rank 6 job had me at -137 happiness per day.

Considering that a major part of the game is happiness and health management, this is a SERIOUS bug.

Yes as often as I can but losing 40-60 health a day it seems. Steam forums and the Devs website has the same issues it seems for a few people so I am not sure what causes the bug but right now it just is not playable at higher levels.