Report Ranks The Most Depressing Jobs

AP Via CNN:

People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.

Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.

Read the whole story: AP Via CNN

Comments

[Wolfgang]

10:01 PM on 10/14/2007

The most depressing job is any job where you have an asshole for a boss.

[mrcontinental]

06:08 PM on 10/14/2007

The number one most depressing job has got to be resident troll here at HuffPost. The abuse they take for being lying assclowns has got to be depressing, witness all of the drunken, drug addled rants we are subjected to.

[askmeificare]

08:53 PM on 10/14/2007

Actually being called names because I disagree with about 90% of the people that post here is an honor and a privilege. The free exchange of ideas is what made this country great.

Liberals believe that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. Conservatives know better but try anyway.

[mrcontinental]

09:41 AM on 10/15/2007

Nice to see that you're so blissful in your ignorance.

I know TRUE conservatives and they have been extinct for the past seven years in this country. You neo-conservatives have ruined this country in the meantime and should be ashamed.

You come here trying to defend the indefensible after you and your kind have mortgaged our children's futures and effectively relegated the USA to third world status. Heckuva job!

[Lawless]

03:27 PM on 10/14/2007

This is not surprising - people who work in jobs where future personal/professional/financial development are extremely limited get depressed. People who work with people who are dying or severely disabled are in much the same position. Your clients aren't going to get better. Their situations are depressing and dealing with that day in/day out must be difficult.

On the other hand, people who create, be they architects, engineers, artists, etc. are happier. All the opposite factors. Well, artists may not have a lot of financial incentive, but doing what you love sure helps.

In my little fantasy world certain jobs, such as health care or working in slaughter houses would be regulated in a way that keeps a person from doing it for too long. There needs to be a rotation to related work that is more positive to balance out the negatives.

[JScott]

11:48 AM on 10/14/2007

I read somewhere where in the future everyone will have worked at McDonald's sometime in the life.
(I have)

[godlessclif]

10:20 AM on 10/14/2007

Bush wants you to get a third job to pay for his was on Iran.

[ZingoBonMot]

03:04 PM on 10/14/2007

~godlessclif~

Like George (Never Worked A Day In His Life) W. Bush said, "Three jobs? That's FANTASTIC!".

[boomer1949]

07:48 AM on 10/14/2007

Oh, and don't forget retail where the customer is always right. S/he can tell an associate to F off and then some and the service person is expected to take it.

[realitytrumpsbull]

12:26 AM on 10/14/2007

I second Fact Finder's observation, the treadmill has been set up at such an angle that
you'll likely spend the rest of your working
years on it, which is the Whole Idea...remember
kids, it's the NashlKonme...

[ZingoBonMot]

03:03 PM on 10/14/2007

~realitytrumpsbull~

It's like Lily Tomlin used to say, "The problem with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat.".

[fedupwiththis]

08:28 PM on 10/13/2007

I think I see a pattern. The more you deal with people the more likely you are to experience depression. I can understand that. The more I read the drivel spewed by posters on the Internet the more I can understand it.

[kasa5400]

09:35 PM on 10/13/2007

Look at the list. The worst rates are among the job classes that are paid the least - child care, home health aides, waitresses.... The 3rd group is those who spend their time listening to other people's problems be they mental or physical.

Bet if yow say the whole list, it would be basically go from low wage to high wage.

[olivia]

10:38 PM on 10/13/2007

I think the pattern has more to do with the way the jobs are rewarded. Nursing home jobs and food service jobs = lower pay and no health insurance.

[fact finder]

07:47 PM on 10/13/2007

People get depressed when they realize that the have no chance in hell of having a future.

[godlessclif]

10:11 AM on 10/14/2007

In today's economy that is more and more people with no future every year.

[wadenelson1]

06:34 PM on 10/13/2007

What about guys facing IED's in a losing, immoral war. Bet THEY'RE depressed. Probably don't tell anyone, though.

[Halsey]

10:02 AM on 10/14/2007

that wasn't the point of the post waden...the article was about civilian jobs..not a volunteer army...

OF course returning soldiers are depressed..and not properly treated..but that's a whole 'nuther
issue...

[fact finder]

01:21 PM on 10/14/2007

Halsey: The reason that it is an all volunteer arm is because the poor guys and gals got to work some where and they do no want to go to India, or China.

[fantagor]

06:15 PM on 10/13/2007

This study has the ring of only including people who were TREATED for depression.

If you were to include all the people who exhibit signs of depression that go untreated or self-treated, the numbers are definitely going to climb.

Randy

[Enid]

06:04 PM on 10/13/2007

Everything is so wrong?

[jazzman]

05:04 PM on 10/13/2007

President Bush was happy to announce increased job growth in the depressing sectors of the economy. "The economy is growing at a rapid rate," said Bush, "increased suicide is a price you have to pay to have such a robust growing economy. But Americans should be happy. We haven't had it this good since we had 100% unemployment in the good ole days of the South before the civil war."

[jazzman]

05:56 PM on 10/13/2007

correction: 100% employment (my faux pas)

[abbiehoffmansghost]

04:55 PM on 10/13/2007

'Work has always depressed me.'
Maynard G. Krebbs

[ZingoBonMot]

06:38 PM on 10/13/2007

MAYNARD!! My hero!!!

[olephart]

02:26 PM on 10/14/2007

You Rang?

[ZingoBonMot]

04:38 PM on 10/13/2007

No mention of the depression rates among those working two or more jobs.

Oh, they're "fantastic!", right Mr. Precedent?

[VOTER]

11:32 PM on 10/13/2007

Bush has NO IDEA most families have at least one parent working two jobs.

How could he know? He has never held one job he earned, as all were given to him by his daddy and his daddy's friends.

Bush has never earned a paycheck but he has robbed the bank holdings of more than one company.

Killer Chimp..............and stll in office. Unbelievable.

[sparkandy]

05:48 AM on 10/14/2007

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones,then. At one of my jobs I actually get paid (lower than poverty wages) to kiss puppies and play with kittens. It's part of the job description. At the other job, res center for a department of a large airline, I have to talk on the phone to strangers - EVERYONE is on some kind of drug, whether it's valium, klonipin, prozac, blood pressure meds, whatever. THAT'S a depressing job! And the idiots who run this country have no idea that most people are working two jobs just to barely scrape by - and they wouldn't care if they did. And that includes Democrats and Republicans alike.

[FreedomCorpse]

01:53 PM on 10/14/2007

yep. the only thing that makes me happy about the entire economic mess politicians have done with free trade bs is that it will be no better for republicans than democrats ... all except the richest among us are floating in the same sinking boat.