In the mid-1980s, roughly 61 percent of workers told pollsters they were satisfied with their jobs. The smoothest life paths sometimes fail to teach us about what really brings us satisfaction day to day. Do these people have “good jobs”? As the airwaves heat up in anticipation of the 2020 election, Americans are likely to hear a lot of competing views about what a “good job” entails. There’s a possibility, when it comes to understanding good jobs, that we have it all wrong.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2019 05:15 UTC