Poll: Business Owners Happy With Their Job

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - If people want to have the most ideal job, they should hire themselves.

A new survey found that business owners were most likely to describe their jobs as ideal for them, according to Aol News . The Gallup survey found that the least likely were service workers such as barbers, nurse's aides, policemen, firefighters and waiters.

The Gallup Daily tracking showed that seven in 10 employed Americans consider their jobs to be ideal. That leaves almost a third of the U.S. workforce thinking they are in the wrong job.

Gallup interviewed more than 18,000 employed adults in January. While majorities at all income levels reported having ideal jobs, it got higher with income.

Americans with annual incomes of at least $120,000 were the most likely to describe their jobs as ideal as 77 percent of those polled said so. When it came to people making less than $12,000, the percentage dropped to less than 57 percent.

Business owners came in at 87 percent, while farmers were at 82 percent and professional workers such as lawyers, doctors, teachers and accountants at 79 percent. Manufacturing or production workers were at 61 percent along with clerical or office workers while people in service jobs were at 60 percent.

Gallup reported that workers aged 50 to 65 are the most likely to describe their jobs as ideal. Seventy-eight percent said so while 52 percent of Americans 18 to 29 would say the same. Education level also played a part.

Polls on whether job satisfaction is holding steady or decreasing over the years have offered differing views in recent months.

The Washington Post reported in January that the Conference Board, a research firm funded by about 2,000 corporations around the world, released the results of a survey that concluded "Americans of all ages and income brackets continue to grow increasingly unhappy at work."

In Gallup polls taken every August from 1989 to 2009, 85 percent to 94 percent of respondents said they were either completely or somewhat satisfied with their jobs. A General Social Survey completed by University of Chicago researchers between 1972 and 2008 led to the same conclusion as those very or moderately happy ranged from 85 to 87 percent.