As time goes on in your job, certain things can wear you down. Your salary isn't quite making ends meet, your benefits don't benefit you much at all and you're working the hours of a CEO – despite your title as an assistant. Your job went from amazing to awful in a matter of months and once again, you're ready to join the rat race for a new one.
Hold on for just one sec. There's a silver lining to every situation and even the most horrible job has its strong points. Sure, you might work 70 hours a week – but on the bright side, you're getting paid time-and-a-half. So what if you work from home? Most people would kill for that kind of flexibility.
What we're saying is that things aren't always as they appear. Every job is (or can be) amazing in its own way; you just have to find out how. To prove it, we created an A to Z index of jobs. They may or may not sound great from their titles, but each has its own element of amazing, whether it's great hours, awesome responsibility, high pay or excellent job growth*.
Take a look to find your next amazing job:
Why it's amazing: It's always a bummer when innovative people aren't able to use their creativity in their jobs. Folks in this occupation get to put their creative juices to use generating advertising campaigns to spawn interest in their client's products.
Salary**: $73,060
Why it's amazing: Shopping for a living? Sounds amazing to me.
Salary: $44,640
Why it's amazing: Could anyone make it through the day without their favorite political, comical or dramatic cartoon fix? These guys are amazing for making at least one person smile every day.
Salary: $51,350
Why it's amazing: We can't ignore the constant barrage of information about our nation's overall obesity problem. Dieticians help us overcome this issue and become healthier by teaching us about nutrition, meal preparation, portion size and eating habits.
Salary: $46,980
Why it's amazing: Like birth, death is a natural part of our life cycle. Unfortunately, it takes a high emotional toll on friends and family. Embalmers help carry some of the burden of mourners by preserving the deceased and making them appear natural and peaceful at the time of burial.
Salary: $49,620
Why it's amazing: Fumigators do what no one else wants to. Because of them, most people don't have to deal with nasty pests (aka bugs) in our homes and offices. Really, we should be thanking them; they save us the trouble of doing it ourselves.
Salary: $29,350
Why it's amazing: After all, image is everything. Since most companies need someone to create an effective image or message for their brands, these workers have ample job opportunities in almost every industry.
Salary: $39,900
Why it's amazing: Besides the option of working flexible schedules, hairstylists have certain creative freedoms when working with clients. Plus, they make their clientele feel better about themselves and their appearance.
Salary: $24,550
Why it's amazing: Police work can be dangerous and stressful, and detectives must work long hours during investigations. Combined with the fact that they work whenever they're needed, investigators are often paid overtime.
Salary: $58,260
Why it's amazing: Judges are seen as prestigious and have the great responsibility of ensuring a fair and just legal system by presiding over trials and hearings.
Salary: $101,690
Why it's amazing: Kindergarten teachers play in a vital role in the initial development of kids. What little ones learn in their first years of school can shape how they view themselves, the world and their learning experiences down the road.
Salary: $47,040
Why it's amazing: When they aren't in the office creating plans, designs, models and cost budgets, landscape architects are out of the office, at the site of their developments. It's always nice for some time outside the three walls of your cubicle.
Salary: $57,710
Why it's amazing: Anyone who's ever had a professional massage doesn't need an explanation for why masseuses are amazing. But seriously, because of the physical nature of massage, full-time therapists typically work only 15-30 hours per week; not many people can complain about that.
Salary: $39,380
Why it's amazing: People in the news business hold the key to communication, and without them relaying information via print, broadcast and online, the world would be void of current events. Or at least our knowledge of them.
Salary: $33,470
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