Based on numbers from Norway (2009-2013) researchers have found that different works will give different life span. Most important are education level; the more education the more years you will live. Just to have it written, the less years in school the fewer years you will live. This numbers are stable and consistent. It is a tendency the recent years that the persons with low education die before and the person with higher education die later. For example men with only elementary school live 6 years shorter than men with a university Carrere. Among women we find the difference to be 4.5 years.
Nobody knows WHY these differences in predicted life exist. It exist many theories. The four most dominating theories are the more you use your brain the longer you live and the better health in your upbringing the longer you live. The third theory is related to the working conditions in jobs that requires low education; working hours, physical work and other risk factors. The last theory we need to consider is work related benefits like social status and income, and collaterals from this like a healthy lifestyle and better food. It is also likely that a high education level constitutes the person to understand better the benefits of a good life and health.
Average life in Gender
- Men: 79.1 years
- Women: 83.3 years
Average life in Work Gender divided – MEN:
- Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Dentist, Pharmacist and Veterinarian 83.2 years
- Civil engineers, Planners, science 82.8 years
- System developers, programmers 82.8 years
- Lecturer 82.7 years
- Top – and mid-leader, politician 82.5 years
- Lawyer, judge 82.2 years
- Teacher (school and kindergarten) 81.7 years
- Administration 80.9 years
- Work with information, market, sport, religion 80.7 years
- Sales agent, buyer, broker 80.7 years
- Ingeniour, technichan 80.6 years
- Nurse, health care workers with college 80.5 years
- Accounter 80.4 years
- Leader in small privare company 80.4 years
- Guard, Police, Fire fighter and army 80.3 years
- Worker in a shop 79.4 years
- Electrician, telephone technichan 79.2 years
- Hairdresser, health care workers 79.1 years
- Farmer and fisher 78.8 years
- Busdriver, offiser on boat, pilot 78.8 years
- Worker with wood 78.8 years
- Office assistant, sectretary 78.6 years
- Post, bank and service person 78.6 years
- Artist 78.6 years
- Hotel and restaurant worker 78.5 years
- Mecanic and metal workers 78.1 years
- Storage worker 78.0 years
- Road, stone and manual worker 77.8 years
- Process operators 77.6 years
- Operators and manual workers food production 77.5 years
- Plummer and construction worker 77.5 years
- Driver and workers on boats, ship and in cars 76.9 years
- Cleaner 76.9 years
- Worker without studies 76.7 years
- In work without proper licence 76.2 years
- Chef and assistant chef 75.9 years
- Not working 71.6 years
Average life in Work Gender divided – Women:
- Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Dentist, Pharmacist and Veterinarian 85.8 years
- Civil engineers, Planners, science 86.7 years
- System developers, programmers 86.7 years
- Lecturer 86.1 years
- Top – and mid-leader, politician 85.4 years
- Lawyer, judge 85.4 years
- Teacher (school and kindergarten) 86.6 years
- Administration 84.9 years
- Work with information, market, sport, religion 86.2 years
- Sales agent, buyer, broker 84.4 years
- Engineer, technician 85 years
- Nurse, health care workers with college 85.1 years
- Accounter 84.6 years
- Leader in small privare company 83.6 years
- Guard, Police, Fire fighter and army –
- Worker in a shop 83.8 years
- Electrician, telephone technician 81.3 years
- Hairdresser, health care workers 84 years
- Farmer and fisher 83.9 years
- Bus driver, officer on boat, pilot 82.6 years
- Worker with wood 81.3 years
- Office assistant, secretary 83.8 years
- Post, bank and service person 82.9 years
- Artist 82.3 years
- Hotel and restaurant worker 79.9years
- Mechanic and metal workers 81.3 years
- Storage worker 83.2 years
- Road, stone and manual worker 81.3years
- Process operators –
- Operators and manual workers food production 81.6 years
- Plummer and construction worker 81.3 years
- Driver and workers on boats, ship and in cars –
- Cleaner 82.2 years
- Worker without studies 81.5 years
- In work without proper license 83.7 years
- Chef and assistant chef 82.3 years
- Not working 78.8years
What to think after reading this? First find out if your forefathers lived long. That might give you some extra genetic credits that this table informs you about. If “All” before you lived until 100 years of age you probably live to 100 no matter your work and educational level. Well, if all died around 60 years of age you might be in trouble before. It looks like a good job with freedom and an education that provide insight and a healthy lifestyle give you some extra earth time. If your job creates little freedom of choice and you are forced to accept some unhealthy solutions you are selling out some of your time.
Nils-Erik Volden 
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