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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Not just about the money: pioneering study reveals best and worst jobs in UK

Call centre operator looking unhappy
Call centre operators suffer from the largely reactive nature of their jobs, researchers suggest. Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images/iStockphoto

If you seek happiness, try captaining a ship or tiling walls for a living. But choose to be a judge, a housing officer or a theme park attendant, and prepare for a measure of misery.

Groundbreaking research into UK employees’ “full earnings”, which tries to account for wellbeing as well as cash income, has revealed the jobs where the reality of the working day undermines the benefit of salary and those that offer the greatest rewards in addition to salary.

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