Blue? Your Job May Be to Blame

Those who care professionally for children or the elderly and those who dish out food and drinks tend to suffer from depression more than anyone else, a new government study says. To ward off the blues, try becoming an architect, an engineer or a surveyor, the job categories with the least amount of depression, the AP says.

Those in health care and social services had the third-highest rate of depression. Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers reported a bout with depression, although those with  jobs were less depressed than the unemployed. Women were more depressed than men, and young workers better off than older co-workers. The disease results in $30 billion to $44 billion in lost productivity each year, the study says. (More mental health stories.)