NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Healthcare people who work with the elderly and small children sometimes have the most depressing jobs, a survey by a U.S. publication found.
Health magazine says personal healthcare workers are most likely to say they've suffered from major depression, 11 percent compared to 7 percent of the general population, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
The reason? The very old and the very young have the most needs and require the most attention and often are unable to express appreciation for hard and often unpleasant work.
Other people who can become unhappy in their jobs include waitresses with low pay, long shifts and rude customers taking their toll, and artists, for whom lack of steady income, confidence issues and loneliness are big contributors to depression, Health says.
And it's not always a lack of money that leads to depression because financial advisers and accountants also report feeling low.
"There is so much responsibility for other people's finances and no control of the market," says Deborah Legge, a licensed mental health counselor. "There is guilt involved and when [clients] are losing money they probably have people screaming at them with regularity."
But even having a depressing job is better than being unemployed. Thirteen percent of out-of-work people report suffering from major bouts of depression, Health reported.
