Many people have discussed the topic of unemployed people and about people with jobs. The world, every now and then has mentioned that bums have the worst quality of life and are the least happy.

However, a new research that was conducted by the Australian National University, has found that people working in a poor job with a bad firm are the least satisfied with their lives. The study went to the extent of saying that those people who remained unemployed were much happier than those working in poor jobs.

A job can be stated to be poor in many scenarios, like it can be poor due to a poor salary, bad work environment, excessive workload and no future prospects. Another reason to be unhappy about a job could be if the person is not interested in the field of work he’s working in.

Though, previous research work has shown that unemployed people are the worst hit. But the new revelations have provided a completely different dimension to the way people perceive a job to be.

Dr. Liana Leach from the Centre for Mental Health Research at the ANU, while talking about the new research stated that the whole scenario was extremely complicated and was not simple. She added that any job is not a better job, just because it pays, as other conditions like personal satisfaction and job security needed to be calculated as well.

The above study has been published in the journal BMC Public Health.