8 Jobs That Can Make You Happy and Rich

Most people believe "a happy career" and "a fat paycheck" are mutually exclusive — but online jobs community CareerBliss.com recently found that these two things sometimes do go hand in hand.

CareerBliss compiled its new list of jobs that can make you happy and rich by analyzing more than 50,000 independent company reviews from 2013 and 2014.

The reviews are from employees all over the U.S. who evaluated 10 factors that affect work happiness — one's relationship with their boss and coworkers; workplace environment; job resources; compensation; growth opportunities; company culture; company reputation; daily tasks; and job control over the work performed on a daily basis — on a five-point scale.

CareerBliss combined those numbers to find an average rating of overall happiness for each respondent, and then sorted the results by job title and salary to determine which jobs pay well and make professionals the happiest.

I recently had a fun (for me, not so much for him) discussion with a soon-to-be college grad interning where I work. No idea how he got in, maybe he's someone's favorite nephew.

Guy was arrogant, and pretty well un-hireable, even with the interning experience that he received where I work. But, I did the right mangerial thing and listened, and offered what I thought was good advice.

He sat in my office complaining about how he couldn't find work - "and I've been looking for WEEKS!!". (LOL. Strike one.)

Then, he complained about people who were getting hired over him, but he has A COLLEGE DEGREE. (Strike two.)

Then, he wanted to know what *I* (yes, you heard that right) was going to DO about it. Strike three.....yer out.

My invaluable advice? Don't play up the degree, play up the interning experience. And, network. Join some user groups. Volunteer at a local school or church (he snickered at that one). "Experience, and contacts, are the two most valuable things in getting a job."

It's sad. He just dropped 100 grand plus on an education, been told by countless admins and profs how valuable he was, and how he'd walk out with a magic diploma and the world would beat a path to his door. Fat chance. He'd have been better off joining the Army, getting some of the p*ss and vinegar beaten out of him, and he might have actually learned something along the way.

RE: Offshore coding...

I know a guy who's made a very, very good living at remediating code that's been done incompetently by offshore workers (usually Indians).

Approximately, Company 'A' sends coding projects offshore because it saves so much cash. In a few months, or years, they find that indeed, "You get what you pay for" and sack the offshore contractors.

Meanwhile, the company is now reliant on this critical bit of software that only works sporadically, if at all.

My friend then comes in, and for a fee that is roughly double what it would have been for him to code it all fresh to start with .... fixes the problems while whistling all the way to the bank.

I've worked for companies where communications were poor between management and the programmers that were sitting literally next to them. I've no idea why management would look at that, then say "Let's get coders from a completely different culture, move them to the other side of the globe, and put three layers of project managers between them and us. That'll fix it! What could go wrong?"

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