AUDIO: THE MOST/LEAST HAPPY WORKERS

Bloomberg has taken a survey of job satisfaction among various fields of work and come up with the happiest workers in America. Scores were based on a scale of 1-10, with choices of “miserable,” “not happy,” “mixed/neutral,” “happy” and “very happy.” Here are the most and least happy; everyone else is just sorta stuck in the middle.
The Most Happy Workers:
1. Firefighters – 9 (on the satisfaction scale)
2. Mine cutters (they drive the huge machines that scrape away the earth to uncover minerals) – 8
3. Pediatricians – 8
4. Communication professors – 7.9
5. Guidance counselors – 7.9
* Of course firefighters are happy. They get to drive fast in a big red truck and go “Woo woo woo” all day.
* Why weren’t the guidance counselors smart enough to counsel themselves to become firemen?
* Communication professors aren’t so much happy as they are smug, because they’ve got a cushy job that pays well and means nothing.
* Didn’t they survey any porn actors?

The Least Happy Workers;
5. Telemarketers – 3.4
4. Insurance claims and policy clerks – 3.3
3. Housecleaners and maids – 3.2
2. Court and municipal clerks – 3
1. Postal workers – 2.5
* If they expect us to feel bad for telemarketers, it isn’t working.
CLIP: From Seinfeld, Newman’s “The mail never stops” speech.