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People in upscale professions often assume their proletarian counterparts have a take-this-job-and-shove-it sensibility about work. But it’s not so, finds a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll fielded in June and July. Asked to describe the way they feel about their jobs, 29 percent said “I love it” and another 56 percent said “I like it.” Ten percent said “I dislike it,” and just 4 percent said “I hate it.”
Among people who make $27,000 or less per year for at least 30 hours a week of toil, 70 percent feel their employer values the work they do, though fewer (54 percent) are “very satisfied” with how the boss treats them.
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