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• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $52,799</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.691/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> Long hours and a lot of on-call schedules.</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $68,873</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.688/5</p> <p> <strong>Description: </strong>Plan, direct, or coordinate marketing policies and programs, such as determining the demand for products and services offered by a firm and its competitors, and identify potential customers.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $91,821</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.677/5</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Set sales goals, analyze data, and develop training programs for the organization&rsquo;s sales representatives. The BLS projected the growth of these jobs to be 12 percent through 2020.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $64,437</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.677/5</p> <p> <strong>Why: </strong><a href="http://www.tlnt.com/2010/12/06/10-reasons-why-managers-have-a-tough-and-stressful-job/" target="_blank">Thomas O. Davenport at TLNT.com says:</a> &quot;With many organizations expecting managers to act as player-coaches, both performing and overseeing work, their roles often become complex and unwieldy.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Plan programs to generate interest in a product or service. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $94,371</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.655/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2012/03/27/the-unhappiest-jobs-in-america/" target="_blank">Jacquelyn Smith at Forbes</a> reports that &quot;the unhappiest aspects of [this] job are a lack of growth opportunities, the culture of the company they work for and the surrounding workplace support system.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description: </strong>Plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from early development to completion. The program managers' responsibilities are finished when the product is delivered, and they turn it over to the product managers.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $81,865</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.648/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> Smith says that these workers &quot;voiced unhappiness with the range of growth opportunities, compensation, company culture and support.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> A blog describes product managers as those who &quot;conceive the idea; run with it for many months; ... gather, [develop], test, [go] through the painful exercise of bringing that product to market, and then support it until it is made obsolete.&quot;</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $71,283</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.636/5</p> <p> <strong>Why: </strong>Smith reports that these engineers don't appreciate the &quot;lack of growth opportunities, company's culture, compensation and support.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Sell complex scientific and technological products or services to businesses. They must have extensive knowledge of the products&rsquo; parts and functions and must understand the scientific processes that make these products work. The BLS projected the growth of these jobs to be 14 percent through 2020.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $43,663</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.595/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> CareerBliss' chief executive Heidi Golledge told Smith: &quot;CareerBliss has found through our research that teachers appear to be quite happy with their work and their co-workers. However, the rewards for their work, lack of support and lack of opportunities to be promoted counteract many of the good parts of the job.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Prepare students for future schooling and working by teaching them a variety of subjects. The BLS projected the growth of grade school teaching jobs to be 17 percent through 2020.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $60,857</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.549/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> &quot;Nurses . . . have more issues with the culture of their workplaces, the people they work with and the person they work for,&quot; Golledge says.</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions. The BLS projected the growth of these jobs to be 26 percent through 2020.</p>
• <p> <strong>Average salary:</strong> $29,641</p> <p> <strong>Bliss Score:</strong> 3.510/5</p> <p> <strong>Why:</strong> &quot;People might think that the work environment security guards often face, such as working late hours alone at night, would be what contributes to unhappiness,&quot; Matt Miller, the chief technology officer at CareerBliss told Smith. &quot;However, our data shows that growth opportunities and lack of rewards in this field is what affected the overall sentiment around this type of job. Work environment scored relatively high.&quot;</p> <p> <strong>Description:</strong> Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. The BLS projected the growth of these jobs to be 18 percent through 2020.</p>