Biotech The Happiest Career In America
Biotech employees are among the most happy with their daily tasks and the level of control they feel they have over that work. A new study reveals employees value coworkers and personal control over compensation. While salary is always an important component of every job, money is not enough to keep good employees happy.
In biotech jobs, the workers make a career out of tweaking nature: Biotechnology fuses engineering and technology with the life sciences.
"In biotech jobs, the people that they work with, and more specifically the person that they work for, tends to rank higher in terms of importance, and employees are overwhelmingly happy with those conditions," according to CareerBliss. The field of biotechnology is currently a growth industry, which makes growth opportunities in the field another key ingredient to its workers' overall happiness.