If you are looking for a job that makes you happy, you are better off serving God than serving pints. A study by the British government has ranked the relationship between jobs and their levels of life satisfaction.
Members of the clergy are happiest, followed by chief executives and farmers. Publicans are the unhappiest workers, followed by bricklayers and debt collectors.
The research suggests that income, education, and work are the key economic drivers. While the psychological effects of unemployment are seen as "a major source of misery".
The authors say that "Not only does GDP fail to reflect the distribution of income, it omits intangibles, or feelings, that are not easily reducible to monetary values".
It adds that "There is growing recognition that the measures of a country's progress need to include the well-being of its citizens".
