{"id":1819,"date":"2017-10-11T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2017-10-12T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:08:18","slug":"career-satisfaction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/career-satisfaction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers in Their Early 50s Are Least Satisfied With Their Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s satisfaction with their career generally decreases over time, bottoming out around age 51, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/132-are-you-satisfied-with-where-youre-currently-at-in-your-career\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Satisfaction and age are inversely related<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers 18 to 30 had the most positive view of their career progress, though still somewhat dismal: just 50% say they are happy with the course of their career. That number decreases, hitting a low of 41% for 51 to 55-year olds. Workers 56 to 60 are slightly more optimistic, at 48%.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the age breakdown here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/132-are-you-satisfied-with-where-youre-currently-at-in-your-career\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1822\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/reti.png\" alt=\"reti\" width=\"712\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/reti-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/reti.png 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Satisfaction and education<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three percent of workers with a high school diploma as their highest degree say they are happy with their career progress. That was the highest amount of any education level.<\/p>\n<p>Workers with &#8220;some college&#8221; were the least happy, at 44%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1823\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/docot.png\" alt=\"docot\" width=\"742\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Cities with the most satisfied workers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers in Boston were most happy about their career progress, at 53%, while workers in Chicago were least happy (40%).<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1824\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/bos.png\" alt=\"bos\" width=\"799\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/bos-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/bos-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/bos.png 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/b>The latest reading is as of Oct. 11 and includes the responses of more than 1,000 workers across the technology industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s satisfaction with their career generally decreases over time, bottoming out around age 51, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Satisfaction and age are inversely related Workers 18 to 30 had the most positive view of their career progress, though still somewhat dismal: just 50% say they are happy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/career-satisfaction-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,65],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}