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5 Reasons Why Paid Employment is Unhealthy

by: Gabriel Ama

For most people, the prospect of getting a job after graduation from College is usually appealing. Some even go ahead and acquire higher degrees so that they could land themselves better paying jobs than their contemporaries.

As good as these desires appear, the truth is, paid employment affects one�s health in a number of ways. Five of such ways are:

(1) Trading time for money: In paid employment, one trades or spends time working for money. The implication of this is that one has to wake up very early (usually between 5a.m. and 6a.m. at worst), work all day and close late. This is an addition to the stress of commuting through rush hour traffic.

Research has shown that people are stressed more when they wake up earlier than waking up later. We all know too well the very unhealthy effects of stress � it is known worldwide as a severe killer disease.

(2) Financial Stress: when you work for money, one of the biggest problems you face is how to plan and manage your finances. Now because financial literacy is not taught at school, majority of employees struggle with salaries they earn to pay bills, living paycheck to paycheck and they are always in a financial stress.

For those who are married, the responsibilities that come with being married could worsen the situation if not handled well. Finance has also been traced to be the biggest cause of divorce amongst married couples. A broken relationship with a loved one could leave one emotionally devastated most times.

(3) Heart Attacks: again, research has shown that most employees who suffer Heart Attacks had them on Monday mornings. When asked the cause, they simply responded that they were unhappy coming to work after the weekend. Obviously, their minds had been filled with worries associated with paid employment over a long period of time and the day of the Heart Attack is a peak effect of the previous stresses accumulated over time.

Unfortunately too, some people in paid employment also have to work weekends because their employers asked them to come and very few others come on weekends just to make ends meet. The effect of this all week work situation on one�s health is better imagined because medical findings have recommended a 40-hour maximum work week for humans, that is, not more than 8 hours a day for 5 days only.

(4) Office Politics: About 3% of the world�s working population earn 96% of the world�s income through their private businesses. On the other hand, the remaining 97% of the world�s working population are in paid employment struggling to earn just 4% of the income available to their group.

We are equally familiar with the high unemployment rate in the labour market the world over. As a result of this oversupply of labour in the paid employment market, many employees in trying to protect their jobs engage in back biting, mudslinging, bitter rancour all in a bid to impress their employers and destroy their colleagues, subordinates, and at times superiors too.

When you have an unresolved strained relationship with a person or persons, it could lead to illnesses in one�s body that can only be healed after reconciliation with those we quarrel with.

We may recall such occasions when we felt pain in our heart once we sight someone we had an unresolved quarrel with in the office. Unfortunately, this could go on and on, forcing illnesses on us that are more psychological than physical and leaving us wondering why we feel so sickly.

(5) Fear of Poverty and the Unknown: this is one of the major reasons people remain in paid employment for so, so long. Most people see paid employment as more secure than business and so they are more willing to remain in a job than risk being on their own.

However, if you happen to work in an organization that was once doing well and is now unstable to the extent of wanting to downsize, this fear of poverty and the unknown could become emotionally paralyzing.

A story is told of an employee of a bank who was retrenched along with other staff during a downsizing exercise. And guess what? The man committed suicide.

You would do well to begin to develop a financial and time plan to take you out of paid employment so that your health would not adversely affected. Beautiful enough, when you are your own boss doing your own business that requires less of your physical presence and attention, your health is better for it and ultimately, you will earn more income to take good care of yourself and your loved ones in the long run.

This is why your plan should be vision for a business that requires less of your attention as it expands with capable hands employed to run it. You should also apply yourself to learn the subtle skills required to seek, identify and employ capable hands to run your business.

It is achievable, if you would just apply yourself to it.

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Mom's Job Stress May Spread to Kids
by: Rita Jenkins

Low job satisfaction in working mothers increases the stress levels of their children, but allowing them to spend more time in childcare can help overcome these effects, according to new research published in Developmental Psychobiology.

Children whose mothers found their jobs emotionally exhausting or otherwise less rewarding had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than children whose mothers reported more enjoyment from their jobs, researchers found in a study involving more than 50 nursery school children.

Levels of cortisol in the evening were more than double in the children whose mothers experienced less job satisfaction. Placing those children in childcare would help to significantly reduce their stress, the research suggests.

The researchers also found that children from families that were either highly expressive or very reserved exhibited higher than average cortisol levels.

Greater support is needed for working mothers to help improve their job satisfaction and increase the availability of affordable childcare options, says the report.

More Time in Childcare

Dr. Julie Turner-Cobb, a health psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Bath, Dr. Christina Chryssanthopoulou from the University of Kent and Dr. David Jessop, a neuroimmunologist at the University of Bristol collaborated on the study.

To measure cortisol levels, they took saliva samples in the morning and evening from 56 children aged three to four years old. They also surveyed mothers about their workplace conditions and home life over a six month period.

"Spending more time in childcare makes a big difference to the stress levels in children whose mothers have low job satisfaction," says Dr. Turner-Cobb.

"It can help protect children from the effects of their mother's low job quality and emotional exhaustion. Ensuring that mothers of young children have good support in the workplace is essential for supporting both mothers and their children," she adds.

"Improving the job satisfaction of working mothers means that they are less stressed themselves," says Dr. Jessop, "and extending the availability of affordable and adequate childcare may not only improve the quality of life for the mothers but, in doing so, may improve the long term health of their children."

Healthy Adaptation to Stress

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that regulates blood pressure and cardiovascular function and immune function. It also controls the body's use of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

Cortisol secretion increases in response to stress, whether physical -- such as illness, trauma, surgery or temperature extremes -- or psychological. It is a normal and essential response without which we would not be able to function in everyday life.

When these levels remain high or become disrupted in some way over a prolonged period of time, however, they may have consequences for health. It is important to promote healthy adaptation to stress in children, and good quality childcare is one way of doing this, say the authors.

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