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How Do You Like Your Job?

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%.

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How Do You Like Your Job?

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  1. 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

  2. How Important Is Earning A lot of Money to you? ‘Survey Said!’: Source: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance, 2001 (YLC-CURA)

  3. 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’

  4. 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?

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