Love, passion, dream job: According to LinkedIn, Asheville is #6 worldwide for professionals who love their work

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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From loyal reader Dusty Allison:

The random discovery of the evening! According to LinkedIn, Asheville is #6 in the top 10 GLOBAL cities where professionals are most in love with their work. Interestingly enough, out of the 10 we are one of only three US cities, Ft. Collins and St Luis Obispo, CA being the other two.

Here’s what LinkedIn’s Peter Rigano had to say about his study, which involved the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and India:

I love big data. As an Insights Analyst at LinkedIn, I have the incredible opportunity to work with a rich set of professional data shared by our 200 million+ members. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I used my data wrangling skills to find out just where professionals who love their work live.

Since Valentine’s Day is all about love, passion and dreams, I looked at English-speaking professionals around the globe to see how many included “love”, “passion” and “dream job” in their LinkedIn profiles. This is what I found.

Below is Rigano’s visualization of where members mention “love,” “passion,” or “dream job” in their LinkedIn profile.

Asheville appears in slide 3 as the #6 metro area for Rigano’s words. #1 is Fort Collins, the original home of our new neighbor, New Belgium Brewing.