Be Your Own Boss
Article Excerpts Below Are From: The Wall Street Journal, Article By Sue Shellenbarger
Be Your Own Boss
In the broadest, most-comprehensive survey yet of how occupation affects happiness, business owners outrank 10 other occupational groups in overall well-being, based on the landmark survey of 100,826 working adults set for release today. Defined as self-employed store or factory owners, plumbers and so on, business owners surpassed 10 other occupational groups on a composite measure of six criteria of contentment, including emotional and physical health, job satisfaction, healthy behavior, access to basic needs and self-reports of overall life quality.
Measuring Well-Being
In a study of how occupation affects happiness, business owners came out on top.
| Occupation | Overall well-being |
| Business Owner | 72.5 |
| Professional | 71.5 |
| Manager/Executive | 70.9 |
| Farming/Forestry | 67.8 |
| Sales | 67.6 |
| Clerical | 66.1 |
| Construction | 65.0 |
| Installation | 64.4 |
| Service | 64.0 |
| Transportation | 62.6 |
| Manufacturing | 62.1 |
Source: Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
Note: Scores are based on respondents’ answers to six categories of questions about work and life quality.
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