83 Making It Work
Making It Work: Reported
Happiness in Web Design
Careers
Web design is a field about passion. Very few people make a
career out of web design just to pay the bills. Most of us got into
the work because some aspect of it excited us. We’re a field of true
believers and evangelists. And we’re a generally happy bunch.
Are you happy working in web design?
Only 4.8% of respondents indicated they were unhappy with their
web design career. You’d think, then, that happiness, satisfaction
and success in such a career field would be straightforward: do
what you love and keep doing it.
In reality, the 2011 survey indicated there are a number of factors
that play into how successful or “happy” web designers reported
to be. Aspects as simple as your attitude on your previous educa-
tion, your work hours, even your job title, provided correlation to
satisfaction.
You’re most likely to be happy in a web design career if you can
check as many of the following boxes possible:
Male, between the ages of 21-29. Women and those 30
and older were slightly more likely to report unhappiness.
Live in an established or large city in Europe or North
America. The changes regarding continent were slight,
but rural dwellers were slightly more likely to report being
unhappy than city dwellers.
2011 95.2% 4.8%
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