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?