It's just as you always thought: "Historian" ranks in the top five among all possible careers in a new survey of the best and worst jobs in the world.
Two caveats: this comes from io9.com, a science fiction website. And numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 are actuary, engineer, computer systems analyst, and biologist, while author is 74. (Lumberjack? 199 of 200.)