Business Owners Smile More Often – What Kind of Business Do You Want To Start?

In the broadest, most-comprehensive survey yet of how occupation affects happiness, business owners outrank 10 other occupational groups in overall well-being, based on the landmark survey of 100,826 working adults set for release today. Defined as self-employed store or factory owners, plumbers and so on, business owners surpassed 10 other occupational groups on a composite measure of six criteria of contentment, including emotional and physical health, job satisfaction, healthy behavior, access to basic needs and self-reports of overall life quality.

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What Kind of Business Do You Want To Start?

By Laura Petrecca

Whether an entrepreneur is a Sam Walton wannabe or just interested in a single small boutique, many people feel that owning their own retail store is an ideal business. But there are a lot of start-up shockers. A common one: not realizing how much work it takes to run a shop. In addition, store owners need to be adept at customer service.

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