Sales managers set goals, crunch data, and train sales representatives. Their mean annual wage is $119,980,

Customer service representatives handle customer complaints, process orders, and give information about an organization’s products and services.

Security officers patrol company property, looking out for vandals and monitoring employees’ comings and goings

Designers create visuals, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas. CareerBliss lists an average salary of $51,000.

Software developers create, improve, test and implement software.

Also known as headhunters, these professionals seek out and hire candidates for high-level jobs.

Database administrators (DBAs) use specialized software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records.

it is worth noting that the relationship between happiness and employment is a complex and dynamic interaction that runs in both directions.

Work-life balance emerges as a particularly strong predictor of people’s happiness.

As might be expected, we find that people in well-paying jobs are happier and more satisfied with their lives and their jobs, but a number of other aspects of people’s jobs are also strongly predictive of varied measures of happiness.

Austria takes the top spot with 95% of respondents reporting being satisfied with their jobs.

Individuals who are unemployed also report around 30 percent more negative emotional experiences in their day-to-day lives.

In most developed nations, we find that being self-employed is associated both with higher overall life evaluation and with more negative, daily emotions such as stress and worry.

we see that self-employment is generally associated with lower levels of happiness as compared to being a full-time employee.

White-collar workers generally report experiencing more positive emotional states such as smiling, laughing, enjoyment, and fewer negative ones like feelings of worry, stress, sadness, and anger.

People taking up their own leadership concerning happiness at work and an organisation facilitating this can become a positive spiral which generates a lot of positive energy.

forced positivity (think about the ever smiling

Creative and innovative

Skills that are not always learned at college or university.

Employees will become more responsible and need to lead themselves much more.

Change is the only constant

without losing sight of the results and profitability of the business

The zombies you kill today will merely be replaced by the zombies of tomorrow.

“Imagine a computer programmed to execute one function. This function cannot be paused, modified or erased. No new data can be stored. No new commands can be installed. This computer will perform that one function, over and over, until its power source eventually shuts down.”

The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.

They knew they would be able to relate to it.

When we think critically about monsters, we tend to classify them as personifications of what we fear.

The more you fill them with bullets, the more interesting they become.

the most powerful brainof all has stopped thinking'

Einstein embodies the most contradictory dreams, andmythically reconciles the infinite power of man over nature withthe 'fatality' of the sacrosanct, which man cannot yet do without

butcartoons of Einstein (the sign that he has become a legend)

erhaps because of his mathematical specialization,superman is here divested of every magical character; no diffusepower in him, no mystery other than mechanical: he is a superior, aprodigious organ, but a real, even a physiological one

She knows what bedtime means, and she has somehow learned to tell whether I’m opening the fridge to get a drink or to get food, even before I touch anything.

Dogs aren’t children, of course, but their popularity among those of childbearing age is indicative of the deep emotional commitments that people rush toward when given the chance.)

isolated, stressed-out people brought dogs into their life during the pandemic

Dogs now sleep in the same bed as their humans at night; they have birthday parties; they go see their friends at day care.

Dogs are, for some of us, a perfect balm for purgatorial anxieties.

I was frustrated with everything else.

Millennials recently overtook Boomers as the largest pet-owning cohort of Americans; by some estimates, more than half of them have a dog.

She tolerated most of my hugs, and once, when I was in the depths of late-winter depression, she let me pick her up and hold her tiny, warm chest to my forehead for a few seconds

, she bore witness to a year I spent otherwise alone

It’s delicious.

“girly” food crazes like açai bowls, rosé, and pumpkin spice

the epicenter of cutesy fall tableaus — happened to blow up in the early 2010s, which is the same time it became cool to claim you despised pumpkin spice

PSL brought in around $100 million

Too frequently, it’s about sexism, class anxiety, and our collective skepticism of savvy marketing.

“an unctuous, pungent, saccharine brown liquid, equal parts dairy and diabetes, served in paper cups and guzzled down by the liter”

and the meaning of “basic,”

Since its inception in 2003

“Tell him call me. Tell him call me when he comes home.

I am sure that he misses me—just as Charlie Ravioli, I realized, must tell his other friends that he is sorry he does not see Olivia more often.

come home to find three e-mails and a message on our cell phone from him, wondering where we are.

“busy” is a synonym for “happy,” not for “stressed

“But he seems so real to her,” I objected.

romantic figure

On a good day, she “bumps into” her invisible friend and they go to a coffee shop. “I bumped into Charlie Ravioli,”

‘I look around this room,’’ he said, ‘‘and I see hope.’

me and my people as if we were problems to solve

their metabolisms slowed, and stayed slow afterward. To maintain his weight loss, one contestant’sresting metabolism now required 800 calories fewer per day than a man of his size

a cultural meme

This would help them stay on the program during setbacks and beyond their weight-loss period andallow the program to infiltrate their lives beyond mealtime and beyond plain old eating suggestions

return of a third of the weight lost at two years.

also by real questions about dieting’s long-termefficacy

just wanted to call dieting something else entirely

‘‘Dieting’’

Jan. 4, 2015