Unhappy? Become a hairdresser

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Memo to unhappy ad execs: You might be better off chucking it all for beauty school. Fast Company’s blog points to a Happiness Index created by a British vocational-certification group called Cities & Guilds that tries to measure job satisfaction. The group surveyed over 1,200 workers, evenly split between “vocational” and “academic” professions. It turns out many more blue-collar types are happy at work, particularly hairdressers. Forty-percent of hairdressers said they were very happy with their jobs.

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