What are the happiest jobs? What are the unhappiest? (2011)

[tiedieconderoga]

Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly.

Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly.

What's up with the sad CNC machinists and happy heavy equipment operators, though? Is it the sunlight?

[bicx]

Maybe being in a noisy environment while wearing hearing protection all day. It’s probably more isolating than a desk job.

[thaw13579]

Seems meaningless without more information about experimental design. There are many ways to measure happiness and well-being, and many potential confounds by demographics, as jobs are not assigned randomly. For example, age and social network have strong effects on both overall happiness and job placement.

[boeingUH60]

> Director of Information Technology

Perpetual IT support requests will make a human angry, so I'm not surprised.

[tangerine67g]

it's over for me as a web dev