Crisis doesn't affect Americans' idea of perfect job

 According to the new Randstad Work Watch study conducted among 1,008 adults from August 28 to September 1, 2009 by Ipsos Public Affairs released Thursday, American workers name good pay, health insurance and opportunity for advancement as their top priorities in their ideal jobs.

This fact reflects economic crisis to affect scarcely definition of Americans’ ideal job as most of them are saying their concept of the perfect post would be the same if the economy improves. 

Almost 65% said in a perfect job, they would do the same work they are doing now. At the same time only 20% said they would choose a different job in the same field.

20% of the US workers cited the ideal job would involve a completely different line of work.

Thus, according to Eric Buntin, managing director of operations for Randstad, most workers "enjoy their jobs, regardless of the impact the economy has made on their jobs." He believes, it would be easy to peg the economy for a shift in the definition of the perfect job, but that doesn't seem to be the case. 

83% of responded would not alter their definition of a perfect job if the economy improves, while the rest of 17% would do so.
81% would include five weeks of vacation in the perfect job, while 56% said free lunch would be great and 40% would be delighted with a lifetime gym membership.

Women were more likely than men to say in their ideal job that they would be doing the same work they are now, by a ratio of 42 to 35%, but men were more likely to wish they had a different job in the same field, 26 to 19.

30% said they would have more responsibility in their perfect job, while 42% said the same amount as they do now. 6% would want less responsibility.