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In a survey released last week by the business-interest research group Conference Board, only half of the 5,000 households surveyed reported that they were pleased with their jobs---a nine percent drop since the survey was first conducted in 1995. The drop in job satisfaction reached across all income, age, and geographic location categories, but was largest among middle-age workers who were once the most satisfied of employees with satisfaction levels of just over sixty percent. Dissatisfaction was found to have risen in a wide range of areas including bonuses, promotion practices, training programs and co-workers, and the single strongest indicator of satisfaction was found to be salary level.