{"id":10833,"date":"2007-04-18T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/18\/most-satisfying-jobs\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:43:55","slug":"most-satisfying-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/18\/most-satisfying-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"A satisfying job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some jobs suck; some rock. In terms of satisfaction a gratification though, a recent list compiled by the General Science Survey is very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the top jobs in terms of satisfaction and the percentage of participants who indicated being happy about their job:<\/p>\n<p>* Clergy\u00e2\u20ac\u201d87 percent percent<br \/>\n* Firefighters\u00e2\u20ac\u201d80 percent percent<br \/>\n* Physical therapists\u00e2\u20ac\u201d78 percent percent<br \/>\n* Authors\u00e2\u20ac\u201d74 percent<br \/>\n* Special education teachers\u00e2\u20ac\u201d70 percent<br \/>\n* Teachers\u00e2\u20ac\u201d69 percent<br \/>\n* Education administrators\u00e2\u20ac\u201d68 percent<br \/>\n* Painters and sculptors\u00e2\u20ac\u201d67 percent<br \/>\n* Psychologists\u00e2\u20ac\u201d67 percent<br \/>\n* Security and financial services salespersons\u00e2\u20ac\u201d65 percent<br \/>\n* Operating engineers\u00e2\u20ac\u201d64 percent<br \/>\n* Office supervisors\u00e2\u20ac\u201d61 percent<\/p>\n<p>Two creative disciplines&#8211;writing and the arts&#8211;not only appear, they rank high on the list. Which is a surprise, because the entries mostly consist of vocations that place individuals in direct contact with the person they assist or manage. Jobs where there&#8217;s not only a built in feedback loop, but opportunities for connections with the larger community.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, only firefighters, clergy and physical therapists indicate a higher satisfaction level than authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some jobs suck; some rock. In terms of satisfaction a gratification though, a recent list compiled by the General Science Survey is very interesting. Below are the top jobs in terms of satisfaction and the percentage of participants who indicated being happy about their job: * Clergy\u00e2\u20ac\u201d87 percent percent * Firefighters\u00e2\u20ac\u201d80 percent percent * Physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}