Using the same methodology, CareerBliss also compiled a gloomier list: The Unhappiest Jobs in America.
These show that businessmen are becoming gloomier (see chart), although consumer confidence is holding up.
But was the auctioneers' bullishness really warranted, or does a detailed breakdown reflect a gloomier reality?
It was gloomier than the Darling Treasury had been about the size of Britain's structural budget deficit.
The half-year proved far gloomier for magazines and newspapers, where spending continued to decline 1.8% and 7.4%, respectively.
Sentiment about export prospects was even gloomier: pessimists outnumbered optimists by 48%, the biggest margin since July 1980.
Companies were feeling slightly happier about current conditions, but gloomier about longer-term prospects, Ifo president Hans-Werner Sinn said.
More jobs losses are likely as the City adjusts to a gloomier economic outlook and the pressure on revenues.
In fact, I cheer for him harder these days, and the (now frequent) 75s make me gloomier in spirit.
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One theory is that Glaswegians are just gloomier than other Brits and put a lower price on the future.
But it is the second decade of Japan's banking depression that carries the gloomier message, especially for Western bank shareholders.
For the gloomier set, the economy is too far off track to survive, much less prosper, with yet another hike.
And before the OBR took a much gloomier view of the economy's room for growth in last year's Autumn Statement.
But as he walked out of a federal courthouse in Baton Rouge last week, Mr Edwards was in considerably gloomier spirits.
Keith Phillips, a Fed economist based in San Antonio, has a gloomier perspective: he recently predicted that almost 300, 000 jobs will go.
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On January 17th, the respected University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment showed an unexpected drop because of gloomier expectations of future spending.
And it makes dismal reading, providing a significantly gloomier assessment of what's happening to the economy than the previous survey published seven weeks ago.
Yuppies decorate their gardens with crosses and angels, the gloomier the better, and gothic goods sail through boutiques in Los Angeles and New York.
Inflation is running in double digits, domestic gas and electricity prices need to be raised and the outlook for the world economy is suddenly gloomier.
It's a lovely body of work and one that shows that photography can focus on the positive as well as the gloomier side of life.
And, as the global risks mount, so their prospects become gloomier.
Glance at the lower right-hand quadrant, and things get even gloomier.
Financial markets certainly seem gloomier about the country's growth prospects.
Still, even though the economic scene looks gloomier now than it did when he finished his book, Zakaria is correct to insist that many people everywhere have benefitted from the global boom.
Yet, a look inside the numbers revealed a gloomier picture, due to the need for roughly 150, 000 new jobs each month just to keep up with new people coming into the workforce.
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The OBR is now a bit gloomier about the longer-term capacity of the economy, meaning they think our potential output will be about 1.3% of GDP smaller than previously thought by 2017.
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