Happiest workers p1 - Military Transition - Military Times EDGE

Hiring experts are already reporting heightened competition for fewer openings this year, so you might consider a job that’ll make you happier rather than richer.

Clergy top a 2007 list of the nation’s happiest workers by the University of Chicago, with 67.2 percent reporting that they’re “very happy,” followed by firefighters (57.2 percent), transportation ticket and reservation agents (56.5 percent), architects (53.5 percent) and special education teachers (52.6 percent).

Large numbers of actors and directors, science technicians, mechanics and repairers, hardware and building supplies salespeople and airline pilots also reported being very happy.