Sometimes when I observe someone doing their job, I can’t help but think, “Man, that must be hard.” Maybe it’s a retail worker dutifully leading a customer to the linens aisle for the umpteenth time. Maybe it’s a cab driver who’s shuttling passengers around at 5 a.m. It’s always hard to say who truly has it harder; perhaps that retail worker and that cab driver have themselves come away from other interactions thinking the same thing I did.
Now, some psychiatrists have spoken on which jobs are actually more of a grind, at least from the standpoint of mental health. A study published last month in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epistemology suggests that some jobs have much higher rates of depression than others.
Note: Examples of "personal services" are dry cleaning and hairdressing Data: Wulsin et al.
