Reminds me of a dailybeast article from a while back: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a-doctor-became-the-most-miserable-profession.h

Reminds me of a dailybeast article from a while back: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a-doctor-became-the-most-miserable-profession.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a... The article doesn't specifically cite boredom (that I remember) as a cause of unhappiness, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.