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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 8:43:10 AM | Same as JC, I have everyday risk of being bopped on the nose working with young offenders who are forced to come to shool.
Some of them think they are funny giving my arms a nip here and there, a wee tug of the hair etc. And the verbal abuse is second to none, but I know what to expect and it's part and parcel of the job.
I'm sure there are many people who are in jobs they don't like, but because of the economy they are stuck in 'em. That can be stressful when every day seems like torture. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 8:57:53 AM | | Your job can adversely affect your health, i remember one job i did for 3 years which i hated and it caused me a considerable amount of stress. At one point i began to get shooting pains going up my left arm - which is an early warning sign for a heart attack. I was only in my early 20's. It was around then that i decided that it just wasn't worth the bother and went back to college. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:14:11 PM | I have worked shifts in the past and did it for many years and I think if I'd kept doing that it would have had an adverse effect on my life, easier when you are young I think.
Nowadays it's only stress that's likely to get me. I'm just into the 2nd week of two weeks off so am incredibly chilled at the moment which is obviously priceless. Stress is reasonably manageable though sometimes it gets you off guard !! | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:17:23 PM | Lack of health benifits from my employer affect my overall health.
On a more serious note I once fell down a big hole | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:24:22 PM | I am able to do a myriad of differing jobs with my employer all at the same grade would offer differing levels of physicality, stress and hours so if I ever did find my job was detrimental to my health I could change it fairly easily.
I currently work Nightshifts and it suits me perfectly and suffer no ill efffects, I get plenty of sleep and can switch off easily and the extra money is great. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 3:35:10 PM | Yes in the past my job has very much affected my health..
Part n parcel of what of what i do...'take the queens shilling' etc | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 3:42:09 PM | | Yes i do!I,m constantly stressed and tired and as i suffer with stress related IBS,it,s causing havoc with my digestion.Ive also had 2 accidents at work,one which resulted in a fracture.I know exactly why it,s affecting me too.Ihate my job!! | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 3:47:49 PM | It probably will!
I have had to take a position in London following my redundancy earlier in the year, and now find myself commuting on a daily basis.
Normal days are getting a train, and by the time it reaches London, being sandwiched in amongst double the trains capacity of customers, then on to the tube, forced to squash in amongst standing passengers for 30 minutes, does the fear of swine flu and everything else rear it's head, of course it does.
Then to work, today alone we have had a suicide on the station at Victoria, closing the underground for 5 hours, a paralytic drunk Norwegian at 11 am fighting police and taking 5 coppers and 2 vehicles to remove him.
and then back on the underground on a reduced service at rush hour, finally getting home at 8 pm from a 6am start,
after 6 penniless months, with no stress, I am considering my future... | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 3:57:08 PM | Work is hazardous to your health, to borrow a book title. In fact, work is mass murder or genocide. Directly or indirectly, work will kill most of the people who read these words. Between 14,000 and 25,000 workers are killed annually in this country on the job. Over two million are disabled. Twenty to 25 million are injured every year. And these figures are based on a very conservative estimation of what constitutes a work-related injury. Thus they don't count the half-million cases of occupational disease every year. I looked at one medical textbook on occupational diseases which was 1,200 pages long. Even this barely scratches the surface. The available statistics count the obvious cases like the 100,000 miners who have black lung disease, of whom 4,000 die every year. What the statistics don't show is that tens of millions of people have their lifespans shortened by work -- which is all that homicide means, after all. Consider the doctors who work themselves to death in their late 50's. Consider all the other workaholics.
Even if you aren't killed or crippled while actually working, you very well might be while going to work, coming from work, looking for work, or trying to forget about work. The vast majority of victims of the automobile are either doing one of these work-obligatory activities or else fall afoul of those who do them. To this augmented body-count must be added the victims of auto- industrial pollution and work-induced alcoholism and drug addiction. Both cancer and heart disease are modern afflictions normally traceable, directly or indirectly, to work.
Read the complete article... http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/abolition.html | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/4/2009 5:37:54 PM | your job is always going to affect your health-if aquarter of your life is spent at work. The shift system does pose health issues- in fact the 24 hour continental rota is seen to be one of the worst for fatigue due to circadian effect. But as for causing cancer- this will only be statistical evidence and difficult to prove as the root cause. for good health at work variation is the key - regular breaks from repetitive actions rest periods are essential.
Key point retire early- if you look at those who retire at 65 there seems to be a higher mortality rate within 5 years of retirement than the 10 year period for those who retire at 60.
the other key point is for office workers - to walk for 30 minutes within their working day. concentration- blood pressure and a general feeling of well being are the benefits. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/5/2009 9:17:50 PM |
For years there has been growing evidence that night shifts are bad for you.
Among the symptoms: disturbed sleep, fatigue, digestive problems and a greater risk of accidents at work. "
Yeah you get all that and more, especially working where I do
Where to start with the problems...
Epoxy resin sensitization, Contact dermitites, cancer, breating in carsinagenic/toxic or otherwise harmful fumes from exotherming epoxies and other chemicals such as ChemTrend's ChemLease Nitro Mors and Acetone, breathing in canrinagenic dust created when grinding infused product, breathing in toxic fumes from curing epoxies, HAVs, CTS, RSI, tinnitus, breathing in glass microfibers, caron fiber splinters...
The list does go on...
And all those are faced DAILY during an 8 hour shift.
Amazing what "the few" are willing to do for the good of "the many" | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/5/2009 10:51:41 PM | | i work nights the place i work at now my health seems to be alot better but the last place i worked made me really ill i looked ill and felt ill i had IBS, stomach ulcers heart problems could not eat properly could not sleep during the day stress and no social life. i dont like working nights but its hard to change jobs at the moment firstly because there are not many about secondly because the money is so good no day job can match it. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/5/2009 11:03:11 PM | | I dont think so i do leave home at 7. 30 am and dont get home till 7.15 pm.. I love what i do!............If i didnt like it or it was making me ill id leave, its hard work but it keeps me out of the shops spending ........ | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 12:19:26 PM | My job affects my health for the better...I love it..My working life consists of days out at the beach, cinema, bowling, trips to fun fairs, zoo's, safari parks, climbing mountains, cycling, playing rounders at the park, shopping (especially handy at Christmas!) gym, excersise classes, swimming, resturants, cafes.... | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 12:39:01 PM | judging by previous posts i reckon im quite lucky in my job, (domestic electricity meter installer) although it does posses its own inherent dangers, we do our own on site risk assesment and follow our company safety guidelines, we have as a company decreased our at work accident record.
there is no rush to do any job, nobody looking over your shoulder, if at end of day we have jobs left...we have jobs left and pass them back.
not had any major colds or flu to speak of for last 2 years for this job...no office work.
previous 2 years was driving trams in nottingham....again no major colds or flu as we lock ourselves in air conditioned cabs, away from the great unwashed.
prior to that worked in factory....2 or 3 colds a year.
also catering and hospitality for many years.....folk regularly off sick with colds, flu, burns, slips, trips, falls, hangovers or just plain drunk and disorderly. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 12:46:17 PM | I used to work nights but it got complicated when my son was young and I split with his dad. Now I don't work nights so have less stress and get to sleep before 7am which is the time I used to get in at from my previous job. Only plus I see to nights is you can go late night shopping and get around in 1/2 the time  | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:33:37 PM | I totally love my work, to me its not work just getting paid to do lovely pleasant things all day... feel totally stress free, happy and contented  | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:41:02 PM | My job can be very stressful in terms of demands on my time and constantly switching from one project to another and back again. Often I have very short completion deadlines for complex tasks and that can of course be stressful.
I manage my stress by ensuring I make time to play and have fun and make some me time.
At the moment I'm winding down to a fast approaching early retirement which I am sooooo looking forward to. New challenges and joys are on the horizon though which may be more tiring than my work! I do love my work but I've come to realise that there are other things that are far more important to me.
I think that part of the remedy if your work is having a detrimental effect on your health is to notice it, consider long term implications and make some changes if possible if those implications are felt to be unacceptable. | |
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| Doe your job affect your health?
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:49:21 PM | I am lucky too, I enjoy working in my environment, we laugh every day, good medicine, and sing often...we are under pressure at work and moreso lately with resources being cut due to the current financial crisis the pressure is on...but I love to go to work and have a happy day with my colleagues.
If work was stressful in any way it would be a sign to think about a change...after all we work to live not live to work. | |
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