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The majority of what he posted is arguably false, although it’s not really his fault–primarily because you can’t pigeon-hole professions or say what’s specifically going to be enjoyable for this or that subset of people. Most marketers and advertisers get little control over the content they’re creating, in-house creative teams at major companies generally forward what they want to advertising firms for the creation process. Copywriters can be some of the dullest, least creative people on Earth. The creative side of boutiques takes years and years of work to get into because it’s the job everyone in advertising wants.</p>
<p>The “art of the deal” means someone who’s a natural talker and a “deal maker” I presume, and finance is way off from that. Real estate is way off from that. Basically everything but M&A, a cold-calling stockbroker or IPO work is real off from that. Maybe it can be tied to being an “entrepreneur,” but what classifies an entrepreneur is a whole other discussion. There are so many facets to finance (notably analysis) that have almost nothing to do with the actual sale-side work that it’s basically saying 10% of a profession = that profession. Operations management is closer to supply chain management than “figuring out how things work” in most situations–it’s not industrial design and product creation (although that can be a facet of it), it’s efficacy work. Entrepreneurship has little to do with having to “be in charge,” many of the more successful entrepreneurs I’ve seen either have expertise to bring to the table in an investment or they put their own managerial team into place, do what they want to the business they’ve started or acquired and move on to the next thing.</p>
<p>The problem is that business is too big a field to point (probably 2/3 the people in the workforce could say they work in business) to any one job title and try to do some kind of mass survey of job satisfaction. One person may have the title of senior manager of x and the reality is that they’re working less as a manager but more as an internal auditor, or as HR, or as payroll, or performing the duties of a CTO, or whatever. It’s not like asking 200 oncologists about oncology and how they like the profession–job titles in business are often meaningless and that makes it impossible to get any real, relevant numbers on a large scale.</p>