10 Most Depressing Jobs, and Other Links
Ten most depressing jobs. Health care worker (including doctors and nurses) is number 4.
“Aromatase Inhibitors May Be Heartbreakers” Is this headline inappropriate humor? You decide.
Good grades pay off (or is it just being smart?) Study: high school students who get good grades are also likely to be healthier as adults.
I’m surprised that so many of the “depressing” jobs require college or post-graduate degrees.
In high school I moved irrigation pipe in the summers. That was certainly depressing, but it served as a good motivator to get an education.
Brain, as an adolescent I moved irrigation pipe in the summers as well. I also ran lines for irrigation ditches, set irrigation tubes, shoveled grain and drove tractors that were often non-air conditioned or had inadequate air conditioners.
Yet, people wonder why I don’t have any yearnings about mowing back to the farm.
Health care work is depressing? No joke.
Students who are smart get good grades. So how can you distinguish between the two? The relevant causal factor is likely to be brains, not grades.
I bet when Obama Care passed all the health workers got even more depressed.
There are smart kids who get lousy grades. Grades measure intellectual ability to some extent. Among other things they also measure impulse control and, for some kids, the ability to put up with incredible boredom and mickey mouse rules.
I think the grade/ health correlation is this: kids with good grades are better at managing details like when to visit the doctor and how much medicine to take.