Wyatt: Do you join anyway and hope that your underlying happiness will carry you through? Or do you say, no way i'm going into that den of vipersi rather dig ditches? Wyett: I think my closest social circle within academia are remarkably happy people. But i won't say this, you really ought to move toward the people that you feel make your life better. And sometimes that means doing a little switching of departments or advisers.
Also: which professions have the happiest people?