Check out #4:

[melissajm]

"Here are the Top 10 most gratifying jobs and the percentage of subjects who said they were very satisfied with the job:

Clergy—87 percent percent
Firefighters—80 percent percent
Physical therapists—78 percent percent
Authors—74 percent
Special education teachers—70 percent
Teachers—69 percent
Education administrators—68 percent
Painters and sculptors—67 percent
Psychologists—67 percent
Security and financial services salespersons—65 percent
Operating engineers—64 percent
Office supervisors—61 percent"

So...Everybody happy?

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[yourbob.livejournal.com]

I helped run some statistics once for a small study comparing lifespan of ornithologists, clergy, lawyers and a couple other professions for which comparible data was available for 1850 to 1950.

There had been a theory that because ornithologists used arsenic powder to prepare museum skins during that time, the ornithologists should have had shortened lifespans. Turned out that the only people in the study who lived, on average, longer were the clergy.

We decided the only explanation (being ornithologists) was that it had to do with low-stress but fulfilling work.

This is a cool corroboration of that idea.