Best and Worst Jobs in the US

[Bunny]

Everyone's a philosopher now. That's pretty neat.

[rubah]

#33: Aerospace Engineer:
Overall Ranking: 33
Overall Score: 308
Work Environment: 230.300
Physical Demands: 6.21
Stress: 34.545
Income: $94,113
Hours per Week: 45

41. Nuclear Engineer
Overall Ranking: 41
Overall Score: 333
Work Environment: 322.420
Physical Demands: 6.21
Stress: 39.151
Income: $97,101
Hours per Week: 45

74. Mechanical Engineer
Overall Ranking: 74
Overall Score: 421
Work Environment: 278.460
Physical Demands: 10.28
Stress: 38.288
Income: $74,133
Hours per Week: 45

[Rye]

I still don't understand how teaching isn't ranked higher! Besides the satisfaction of the work, the average teacher in New York makes about a mean average of 75K a year, for not even a full year of work. 35% of teachers retire with an ending salary of quite a bit over $100,000 in New York. And you could not find better benefits, especially for women planning a family.

EDIT: Auto-mechanics do have it very bad. It's a very physically demanding job, and when it retire, you get no benefits. It's a test to see if you can physically make it past retirement. It's sad. My friend's Dad had a heart attack and he's struggling to keep his job.

[Goldenboko]

Owning some sort of business it where it's at.

[Bunny]

I still don't understand how teaching isn't ranked higher! Besides the satisfaction of the work, the average teacher in New York makes about a mean average of 75K a year, for not even a full year of work. 35% of teachers retire with an ending salary of quite a bit over $100,000 in New York. And you could not find better benefits, especially for women planning a family. :bigsmile:

EDIT: Auto-mechanics do have it very bad. It's a very physically demanding job, and when it retire, you get no benefits. It's a test to see if you can physically make it past retirement. It's sad. My friend's Dad had a heart attack and he's struggling to keep his job.

Preschool, Elementary, High School, University?

[Flying Mullet]

I still don't understand how teaching isn't ranked higher! Besides the satisfaction of the work, the average teacher in New York makes about a mean average of 75K a year, for not even a full year of work. 35% of teachers retire with an ending salary of quite a bit over $100,000 in New York. And you could not find better benefits, especially for women planning a family.

New York City teachers are known to be some of the best paid teachers in the country with the best benefits. Here in Texas most teachers make 30-35k and the benefits are lousy, if they're even offered a retirement.

[Rye]

I still don't understand how teaching isn't ranked higher! Besides the satisfaction of the work, the average teacher in New York makes about a mean average of 75K a year, for not even a full year of work. 35% of teachers retire with an ending salary of quite a bit over $100,000 in New York. And you could not find better benefits, especially for women planning a family.

EDIT: Auto-mechanics do have it very bad. It's a very physically demanding job, and when it retire, you get no benefits. It's a test to see if you can physically make it past retirement. It's sad. My friend's Dad had a heart attack and he's struggling to keep his job.

Preschool, Elementary, High School, University?

High School!

Actually, the NYC teachers are paid quite a bit less than upstate and Long Island teachers. City teachers get 10 grand cut off of their starting salary for double twice the work because city kids are usually much more trouble. D:

I looked it up, apparently, Fire Island has the best average NY wages of a bit under 90K. I've always wanted to visit Fire Island. It has an enormous gay community.

[LunarWeaver]

There's a Fire Island? It just replaced Disneyland as my future home.

Teachers have it crappy because they have to put up with annoying children, hyperactive middle school students, or angsty teenagers. That's too much bullcrap to deal with iyam.

[Del Murder]

Artists were like #80 on Best/Worst list, and #5 on the Satisfaction list. I like the satisfaction list more.

Photographer is on the list. Number 125.

Go team math! You all can have your 'satisfying jobs' with your poverty, long hours, and early deaths. I'll take my math job any day of the week.

[Værn]

Artists were like #80 on Best/Worst list, and #5 on the Satisfaction list. I like the satisfaction list more.

Firefighter is even more cracked out. Apparently the more hazardous and stressful jobs are more enjoyable

[Miriel]

Artists were like #80 on Best/Worst list, and #5 on the Satisfaction list. I like the satisfaction list more.

Photographer is on the list. Number 125.

Go team math! You all can have your 'satisfying jobs' with your poverty, long hours, and early deaths. I'll take my math job any day of the week.

Silly.

There are four variables to job stress/happiness factors. High work autonomy, low autonomy, high work demand and low work demand. It's based on the Karasek model. Karasek basically said that the jobs that are most damaging to your mental and physical health are jobs that have high work demands but combined with a low level of control or personal freedom in that job. Those jobs are actually linked with things like hypertension and heart disease.

I found a little diagram on google images.



So Doctors, while they work in high strain situations, they also have a ton of job autonomy. Making their work satisfying. Call center operators on the other hand do passive, repetitive, non-demanding work, but have extremely limited personal decision-making powers in their job, making them want to shoot themselves in the head. It's actually been shown that people who are required to do mentally stimulating work are a lot more healthy than people who do extremely repetitive work like working in a production line. Karl Marx thought that that kind of work was bad for the human soul.

PS. This list of Best/Worst jobs was brought to you by Sociologists, who rule at life. They get paid a crapton, and they get to do interesting relevant work.

[qwertysaur]

I'm going to be one of the top 5 in Dels. xD Not sure which one yet though. Tell you all in about 4 years

[Heath]

Excellent. Historian is in at number 7. Now to just ensure that I do well enough and somehow get a First to make that a viable option!

[scrumpleberry]

the average teacher in New York

Maybe it isn't so good out of New York? Who knows?

[Sephex]

I program a laser. You would not believe the ***** that pulls in for me. Life is great.