"Peope with Dirty Jobs are Happier"

     "People with dirty jobs are happier."  My initial response to this quote was this: The American dream or success is wealth and having a "good" job, like a doctor or a lawyer but these people (people with dirty jobs) are happy doing dirty and what many might think of as undesirable jobs.  They have their own success.

     The premise that people with dirty jobs are happier might be hard to prove, but one possible approach might be to point out that these people are happy in spite of their so-called "dirty" jobs.  And that they are just as successful as any doctor or lawyer.  People with dirty jobs defy the stereotype of what we define as successful and what happiness means.  Success is usually equated by how much you own, usually correlated with a professional high paying job, and we use this standard to calculate happiness.  But happiness has no one definition, and wealth is no sure sign of happiness.  So for these people with dirty jobs, happiness is doing what they want, what they know, even if its considered unsuccessful, they have their own success, happiness.