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Discover how job stress affects personal life, job satisfaction levels, concerns about job security, and attitudes towards work in Canada. Data from the Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices reveals insightful statistics. Join the discussion on the importance of earning money and the evolution of the definitions of job, career, profession, and vocation. Explore economic epochs and debate the best era to live in. Would a Hunter-Gatherer agree?
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How Do You Like Your Job? Close your text books and try to guess the following: % of Canadians polled that said Job stress negatively affects family/personal life 25% 18% % who said their job was ‘a dead-end’ 11% % who said their job was extremely boring 19% % who said they were concerned about losing their job 27% % who said their job was just a way to make money Source: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance (YLC-CURA), 2001
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 Now Job -- 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.’ Career ‘Rapid and unrestrained activity’. ? ? Profession A public declaration of beliefs ? Vocation 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?