Business Opportunities Weblog

Self-Employed Are The Happiest

By on September 18, 2009 in Ideas

The New York Times:

Business owners are the happiest workers in America, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll data collected from January to August. Transportation and manufacturing workers have the lowest overall well-being.

Some other observations:

• The three occupations with the highest levels of well-being are those with the highest household income.

• Self-employed workers also work the most hours per week.

• Farm workers, fishers and forestry workers exhibit the healthiest habits — good diet, frequent exercise and low smoking rates.

• Construction workers and managers/executives score the best on overall health, as determined by measures of chronic illnesses.

Photo by The New York Times.

self-employed

Rich Whittle has added 6,226 posts to Business Opportunities Weblog.

Another Idea: How to Start a Workers' Compensation Consultant Business

  • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk Dape

    It matters not what you do its how you feel inside. These type of surveys are based on rubbish. I am not surprised that our youngsters take on the wrong values if there thoughts are guided by material success.

  • http://www.youngair.co.uk Alistair

    Being self-employed has it’s draw backs, especially when you are working from your own home. But overall I prefer it much more to working for anyone else.