The Working Class Hates Their Jobs

The workplace blues “Relatively high proportions of men and women who worked in sales or service, or processing or manufacturing or utilities were unhappy on the job. The same was true for men in administrative, financial or clerical jobs,” the report says. “By contract, comparatively low percentages of men and women in professional positions were dissatisfied. And among men in management, as well as those in farming, forestry, fishing or mining occupations, job dissatisfaction was particularly uncommon.