How Do You Like Your Job?
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How Do You Like Your Job?
% of Canadians polled that said Job stress negatively affects family/personal life
18%% who said their job was ‘a dead-end’
Close your text books and try to guess the following:
25%
% who said their job was extremely boring 11%
% who said they were concerned about losing their job 19%
27%% who said their job was just a way to make moneySource: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance (YLC-CURA), 2001
Important39%
Somewhat Important
21%
Not At All Important
3%Not Sure
1%
Very Important36%
How Important Is Earning A lot of Money to you?
‘Survey Said!’:
Source: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance, 2001 (YLC-CURA)
Definitions – Then and Now
Then NowJob --
Career
Profession
Vocation
Something unseemly, or demeaning, e.g. dirty work, underpaid work, criminal work
‘A piece of work done for hire or profit.’ Can still have negative connotations e.g. ‘just a job.’
‘Rapid and unrestrained activity’. ?
A public declaration of beliefs
?
A ‘calling’ ?
What do you think?Recall (from 7.1) that Economists refer to 4 epochs in economic history:
•Hunting and Gathering
•The Agricultural Revolution
•The Industrial Revolution
•The Information Revolution
Q: Which do you think is the better era to live in? Why?
Q: Would someone from another era (I.e. the Hunting and Gathering era) agree with you? Why or why not?
Q: Would there be any advantages to living in a Hunter-Gatherer society?