In all times, the idea that doctor or lawyer was bound to have been bound to be prestigious. But are they fulfilling, especially when you have to work 42 years? This other profession, not very common and poorly paid, provides those who practice it unparalleled happiness …
A job can change a life positively … or weave it. While thousands of high school students actively prepare the bac and already have to think about their future career, which job to choose to feel happy in life? It was on this question that the University of Tartu, Estonia, which questioned nearly 59,000 people, has looked into. Objective: measure what everyone feels in front of their work. Result ? Money and status are not everything. Far from it.
Indeed, high wages do not always rhyme with personal satisfaction. The researchers have gone to the comb end: personality, standard of living, professional framework, general feeling. What comes out of the received ideas. Some trades paid misery make it happy. Others, better lotis on the pay sheet, leave a bitter taste. It is not the size of the office, nor the title on Linkedin who counts. What really weighs is what you feel every morning when you get up.
On the happiest side, there are varied profiles. Many work with others. They treat, they accompany, they listen. Some write, too. There are medical professions, psychologists, creatives, teachers or even specialized engineers. People who often say they have a goal and a meaning. Their work speaks to them and resonates with their values. As Katlin Anni sums up, who led the study: “Jobs which provide a higher feeling of achievement are associated with greater satisfaction, and even less prestige jobs can be very fulfilling”.
In this context, an activity is particularly distinguished from others. Salary level, the remuneration amounts to 1,009 euros net per month, a sum significantly lower than the minimum wage. Besides, we are not really talking about “profession” but rather a charge. These are priests. These are currently 13,114 in France according to the site The lifeand would be one of the people most fulfilled by their profession. Indeed, the latter would, there again, guided by a feeling of accomplishment.
This notorious imbalance between the happiness which stems from this activity and the associated derisory salary proves, definitively, that money is far from being the key to happiness. A reflection that pushes to rethink our priorities and measure the richness of a life not in euros, but in sense and passion.
