Love's Real Stories

Who knew there was an outfit called “Career Bliss,” which measures happiness in the workplace and publishes rankings every year? This year, according to the report, the most blissful person on the job is a realtor. Realtors were ranked Number One based on the Career Bliss survey which compiled “bliss points” based on answers to their questions.

I’ve known a few realtors in my time, and it’s true, they are friendly, helpful people who smile a lot, but blissful? Isn’t blissful a term traditionally reserved for otherworldly, metaphysical people, perhaps familiar with the lotus position?

I found a realtor, and she did appear somewhat otherworldly, but only because she was moving so fast her outline was blurry. She was not in the lotus position.

“So how’s your job these days?” I asked.

“What?” she said. “You know perfectly well how my job is. I have two listing appointments in the next two hours; two escrows that might be falling apart; I have three offers to present on properties with multiple offers already in place; and I have property inspections and appraisals lined up throughout the day. Why?”

“So how does that make you feel? Like blissful or anything?”

She stared into my eyes as if searching for something she was missing.

“Listen, I’m really busy,” she said, “I’m a little stressed and you’re starting to stress me out more.”

She turned to go and her outline was blurring again. “Wait!” I said. “I mean, how do you like your job?”

“You’ve known me for 20 years. You know perfectly well I love my job.”

“Well, you said yourself you’re stressing.”

“Thanks to you!”

“You’re welcome”

She narrowed her eyes and searched me one more time. She vibrated, blurred, and disappeared.

The CEO of Career Bliss, Heidi Golledge, said, “Real estate agents have definitely weathered quite a financial storm over the past few years. But right now interest rates are low and inventory is low, making it a real estate agent’s dream as new homes hit the market getting multiple offers in the first week. Real estate agents are very satisfied with the control they have over their daily tasks. The recent market growth also has made their job particularly rewarding.”

The realtors I know have been friendly, helpful people who have smiled a lot, before, during and after the “financial storm.”

We better look more closely at realtors – they may not know it, but apparently their smiles now contain an unworldly ingredient.

Bliss.