A survey has found that if being a home-maker, staying at home with the children were counted as a job, it would rank as having happier workers than any other trade or profession.
The report said: ‘Homemakers are happier than people working in any other occupation, but they work double the hours most people think.’
Only one in seven stay-at-home parents say they are dissatisified with their role, a level of unhappiness that is less than half that found among civil servants or salesmen and women.
The survey, carried out for an insurance group, asked more than 3,000 to say whether or not they were satisfied with their lives. The ratings recorded are the percentage who indicated they were not unhappy with their lot.
The country’s two million stay-at-home parents – the great majority of them mothers – were recorded in the report as ‘homemakers’. They scored 87.2 per cent in the happiness ratings.
The others in the top five were those working in: hospitality and events management – 86.3 per cent; creative arts and design – 84.4 per cent; the charity sector – 83.9 per cent; leisure, sport and tourism – 83.7 per cent.
The least satisfied were working in marketing, advertising and public relations, with a happiness rating of 53.8 per cent. The bottom five were: police and security officers – 59.4; salesmen and women – 67.4 per cent; civil servants – 70 per cent; shop workers – 70.8 per cent.
Daily Mail