Depressed at work? Get a new career

If you read through the article, it seems that the careers in which depression is least prevalent are those which involve the least contact with the public--a comment on the decline of society? It is amazing to me how many physicians and nurses I know are looking at an exit strategy from the profession in which they spent years preparing for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Child care workers, home health care aides and other people who provide personal services have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers, according to a new survey to be published on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT It found that 10.8 percent of personal care and service workers and 10.3 percent of food preparation and serving workers -- both usually low-paying jobs -- experienced one or more major depressive episodes in the past year. The least depressing careers appear to lie in architecture, engineering, the sciences and in the installation, maintenance and repair fields, the survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found.