A study conducted with over 59,000 employees in Estonia has found that satisfaction in life and work is not directly related to salary or prestige.
According to the study, religious professionals, self-employed workers and sheet metal workers are the most satisfied with life. Psychologists, health professionals and massage therapists also ranked in the top ten.
On the other hand, postmen, waiters, security guards, butchers and driving instructors are among the least satisfied, reports A2 CNN.
While dentists, obstetricians (gynecologists) and hairdressers showed the highest levels of job satisfaction, so did writers, software developers and religious and health professionals. On the other hand, transporters, laborers, kitchen helpers and waiters were not very satisfied.
They were asked about their job, salary, personality, and how satisfied they were with life in general and work in particular.
The results have been published in "PsyArXiv Preprints" and show, according to experts, that lack of stress and a sense of fulfillment have a greater impact on a person's happiness than income or status.
"I expected that the prestige of a job would be strongly linked to the satisfaction we get from it, but we found only a weak correlation between the two," explains Kätlin Anni, one of the study's authors, adding that "low-prestige jobs can be very satisfying," A2 CNN quotes.
The expert also notes a factor that is common to the least satisfying jobs, stress, which often comes from a high-profile role with a lot of responsibility, such as that of a manager in a large or international company. This, she points out, would also explain why self-employed workers were found to be among the most satisfied with their lives.
While acknowledging that some aspects of this study may be valid in other countries, the expert advises against generalizing, as in Estonia there may be cultural norms that influence how people perceive their work.
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