Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Forbes: Clergy are Happiest Employees

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          A former seminary prof of mine posted recent articles from Forbes on the ten happiest and most hated jobs, respectively. It's an interesting read.

          "Why were these jobs with better pay and higher social status less likely to produce happiness? Todd May writing in the New York Times argues that “A meaningful life must, in some sense then, feel worthwhile.  The person living the life must be engaged by it.  A life of commitment to causes that are generally defined as worthy — like feeding and clothing the poor or ministering to the ill — but that do not move the person participating in them will lack meaningfulness in this sense. However, for a life to be meaningful, it must also be worthwhile. Engagement in a life of tiddlywinks does not rise to the level of a meaningful life, no matter how gripped one might be by the game."

          You can read the full lists and articles here. I'm sure the Teacher in Ecclesiastes could relate.

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