Yaaaay to teachers!!!

You know, one day I hope that I'll retire and be able to teach. Granted I had great, decently behaved classmates (aside from that incident with Mrs. Sutton and Mr. Barry, oops!), but in high school my teachers always looked so content in the classroom. They shape lives, educate, AND entertain all in a good day's work.

With that being said I'm glad that Gallup found teachers to be the happiest in their well-being index. What's interesting is that they barely beat out "business owner." I would've thought that business owners would be lower down the list, due to all the stresses, hard work, and hours needed to be one. Plus the job security--don't most small businesses fail? Regardless it's good to see them at the top along with teachers.

Yay for Happy Asians!!!!!!!!!!!!

Continuing with all that happiness hub-bub, this article from Economix reports on a Gallup survey which says that Asians are the happiest people of them all!

Please read here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/poor-people-more-likely-to-have-experienced-depression/

My dad said the same thing to me too

He didn't work in an eyeglass factory, but he did work in a casting factory involving lots of lead (I'm referencing the last paragraph of the article).

But the summary of the article is that being a part of the blue collar working class correlates with lower overall well-being.

Article: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/happiness-and-the-working-class/