Rogers Resume Blog

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the period August to October 2008, 651,000 workers across the United States lost their jobs. This drastic drop has resulted in 10.1 million Americans with no jobs! Of course, you should not be surprised about these figures considering that the mighty United States is as vulnerable to the worldwide financial crisis as the littlest of Asian, African and European nations.

If you are in one of these jobs, which the University of Chicago found to be the most satisfying in its study entitled “Job Satisfaction in the United States”, you probably will want to hang on to it as long as you can, economic slump or no slump. Besides, parking your butt in the office chair for pay is definitely better than parking your bottom at home scraping bottom.

#1: Clergy

Well, you probably will be happy and satisfied when you are part of the religious clergy simply because you have to be! Seriously speaking, when you are selling happiness of the spiritual kind on both on the temporal and eternal planes, you practice what you preach.

Of course, the fact that as a clergy, you are in the position to assist people beyond the needs of their wallets’ contents has a great deal to do with being happy on the job. Helping your fellowman attain inner peace and happiness, after all, is as important as filling the stomach and the bank account.

#2: Physical Therapists

If you are a physical therapist, your basic salary and benefits probably are part of your job satisfaction rating. The emphasis is on “part” as satisfaction cannot be measured in terms of the amount of money in your cash clip wallets, in your bank account and in your investment portfolios.

Your greatest satisfaction could come from helping people get back on their feet again, literally. Your personal encouragement coupled with your professional competence is a powerful medicine for repairing broken spirits and broken bodies, all while earning money. Definitely cause to be satisfied, don’t you think?

#3 Firefighters

For all its danger, being a firefighter is satisfying because you get to help people in perilous situations. And, oh throw in a little kitty, a little boy, and a little lady in distress and you just about round up the happy scenario.

And who can forget the heroic firefighters of the New York City Fire Department during the aftermath of the September 11 attacks? It is a very dangerous job, indeed, but one that brings indescribable happiness to firefighters in America, a fact that we should be thankful for.

These jobs might not be suitable for the ostentatious and pretentious kind of desk business card holder but you cannot deny that for the price of one, you get two – job satisfaction and professional happiness! Not bad for a trade-off.