Happiest job is…

Construction 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/29/this-is-the-happiest-job-in-the-world-according-to-new-research.html

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I can believe this based on my own experiences.

(I’ve never worked in construction, it there’s a strong correlation between the jobs I was happiest in and the jobs that involved a high degree of manual labor.)

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One theory: 

How long is the feedback loop between an action you take and it’s result? The shorter the loop the happier you are?

🤔 Could be.

There’s also the phenomenon where even if what you’re doing is a small part of the whole, you can point to a definite *thing* you did.

“There are many stores like this, and many aisles, but this aisle is the one *I* built” (I was a stocker at Costco for a while).

The jobs I’ve had later in life have much more diffuse outputs.

Right now I work in computer security. There’s a similar pride to finding a vulnerability, but in the end product there’s rarely anything I can point to and say, “see that stone? That stone was *mine*.”