If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere — though you’d probably be happier elsewhere.
New York is a career hell according to a new Gallup poll, which found the Empire State, including the city, is ranked 46th in the country in career satisfaction, including “liking what you do each day” and “being motivated to achieve your goals.”
The states at the bottom of the list with us include West Virginia and Kentucky — which means that working in the Big Apples is literally as bad as working in a coal mine.
“Makes sense. New York is overpopulated with rats in the subways, rats in the parks, and homeless people on the sidewalks,” said Andy Rezin, 31, from the Upper East Side, who works in digital media. “I come home from work hungry and I’m sleep deprived because my neighbors play music all night long.”
Mike Olyord, 30, who quit his job recently to become a comic agreed: “The city is expensive, dirty, and everyone has a prescription for Xanax to get by. I haven’t moved out of they city because I’m crazy and the water is too damn good.”
Gallup’s ranking took the elements of careers, social, financial, community and physical well being to rank general happiness. In the overall ranking New York landed at 37th — far behind the No. 1 state, Hawaii.
The Aloha State ranked at the top for the seventh time since Gallup began tracking wellbeing in 2008.
Meanwhile, West Virginia was the unhappiest state for the 10th year in a row.
The pollsters didn’t suggest why New York ranked where it did when it came the question specifically about careers, but Eileen Sharaga, an Upper East Side-based career counselor had a pretty clear professional opinion.
“New York is the hub, it attracts the best and brightest — so the demands are bigger, the pressure is higher,” she said. “Not only are you competing against people pulling long hours, but the cost of living is so high, you need to work those hours to survive.”
The poll was based on more that 115,000 surveys with adults across all 50 states conducted in all 12 months of 2018.
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