With something as fuzzy as "happiness" there can be many scales. This is one of the beefs that I have with the "love your job" culture. People reduce job satis

With something as fuzzy as "happiness" there can be many scales. This is one of the beefs that I have with the "love your job" culture. People reduce job satisfaction to a single line, where you either love it, hate it, or something in between. I like to think of job satisfaction across many dimensions. Maybe you love your team, but commute is killing you. Projects are interesting, but salary could be higher. To make it more complicated, there dimensions and yourself change over time: projects start and end, colleagues join and leave, you might get raises or promotions. Rating things in a simple happy/unhappy, love/hate scale is rarely useful.