So more than one in four (28%) of HR professionals are so dissatisfied with their current role they would not want their children to follow in their footsteps, according to consultancy Hudson.
That's a significant percentage of you who don't feel you are getting a good return on the energy you're putting into your role, if this research is to be believed. Perhaps these findings suggest that you should be doing more to tackle the sources of such gloom?
Personnel Today's weekly Top Job section regularly includes the question: 'What would you like your children to do?' Apart from the obvious 'whatever makes them happy' response, your desires range from the typically respectable lawyers, doctors and forensic pathologists to becoming a teenage tennis prodigy, and my personal favourite, from Nicola McGouldrick, head of HR at Bigmouthmedia: 'a cosmetic surgeon and domestic goddess, so I can be taken care of in my twilight years'.
Perhaps what's more intriguing is that none of you have ever said HR. What should we make of that?
It may not be your preferred choice for your offspring, but the Hudson research did find that half of the 250 HR respondents would recommend their career. So not all bad, then.
Still, maybe it's time you benchmarked yourselves against other HR departments to really see how you size up?
Over the past few weeks, hundreds of HR professionals across the country have been singing their HR departments' praises, with online entries for Personnel Today's Best Places to Work in HR 2008 flooding in.
With just 10 days to go until the closing date, don¹t miss out on the opportunity to rate your own HR department we've made it easier than ever this year. So whatever type of organisation you work in large or small, public or private please take the time to participate. To take part, go to www.personneltoday.com/bestplaces
