{"id":2500,"date":"2008-05-02T05:18:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2008-05-01T01:09:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:09:44","slug":"feeling-good-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Good For Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Collins at NewsCut notes:<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we’ve got The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index<\/font><\/a>. It’s based on interviews of more than 100,000 people and it, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. Forty-nine percent of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about their lives at the time of the survey, and where they think they’ll be in five years.<\/p>\n

The survey is done every day<\/em> and Gallup says it will do it for the next 25 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would love to see the final results – especially broken down by things like religious outlook, politics, family status, favorite baseball team…<\/p>\n

Findings so far indicate that peoples’ workplaces and any health problems are the two major contributors to whether people are happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the article about the survey:<\/p>\n

James Harter is Gallup’s chief scientist for workplace management and well-being. He said he was particularly surprised by the double whammy of a negative work environment plus a disease condition. And despite knowing the national statistics, he was still surprised to find that two-thirds of working adults were overweight or obese.<\/em><\/p>\n

So what’s the good <\/em>news<\/em><\/a>? Social time with friends and family is a buffer for the stress caused by most factors, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The more you have, the better,” Harter said. He suggested that a graph showing Americans’ overall happiness – which rises sharply on the weekends and drops during the week – may be due in part to the increased social time most people have on the weekends, especially those who work during the week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know that among the most miserable times in my life were the ones where I was working at awful jobs – nightclub DJ, some technical writing gigs, Information Architect at a large local bank…<\/p>\n

Oh, and what do you think your<\/em> life is going to be like in five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every time I’ve ever tried to guess that – as my Twenty Years Ago Today series pretty well shows – I’ve been dismally, or sometimes pleasantly, wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Collins at NewsCut notes: Fortunately, we’ve got The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. It’s based on interviews of more than 100,000 people and it, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. Forty-nine percent of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}