A bad job as stressful as being out of work



A BAD job that asks too much without giving back enough is just as stressful as having no job at all, a big Australian study has found.

Researchers from the Centre for Mental Health at the Australian National University analysed surveys of more than 7000 Australians over seven years to see how their employment status and work conditions affected their mental health.

The surveys asked people of working age about symptoms of depression, nervousness, and how often they had felt calm and happy in the previous month.


Participants were also asked about their workplace conditions, including how much control and flexibility they had, the complexity and weight of their workload, how they viewed their job security and whether they thought their pay was fair.

After taking into account various factors that could affect the outcomes, such as previous education and marital status, the researchers found a direct linear relationship between people's mental health and the quality of their jobs, with those in well-supported, flexible and secure jobs enjoying much better health than those in jobs lacking such characteristics.

However, in a surprise finding, they also discovered that the mental health of people without jobs was comparable and often better than those who were working in poor quality jobs characterised by high demand and complexity, low job control and unfair pay.   

In addition, the research published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, showed that although mental health improved when people moved out of unemployment into a good job, moving into a poor quality job was more detrimental to mental health than remaining unemployed.    

Did you not read the title?.  A Bad job, as stressful as being out of work.  Hands up all those, that want a bad job.   

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Yes but more profitable. (usually).

You can be stressed with money or stressed without any cash.

A good job is still a better option.

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Unlike you crook who just likes to sponge from the tax payers.

You wouldn't know what I do.  Anyway its not a question of sponging from the tax payer.  One must consider whats on offer.  For example, is the employer providing a safe work environment?.  Not all are you know.  Does the employer pay fair wages?.  Are the hours fair and reasonable?.  Not all are.  Is the employer a slave driver?.  Some are.  Is the job a reasonable distance to get to?.   Some are not.   

That's the best of a bad job, the pleasure you get from walking out......nothing compares.......except getting rid of a bad husband maybe 

No YOU know Bugger all.  Speak for yourself.

This is crooks way of justifying why he doesnt work.

See, to him, he would rather have no job than a bad job.  The reason why he has always had bad jobs is because he has no qualifications, was a trouble maker in the workforce and was always on minimum wage due to his inability to think for himself or complete work assigned to him.

Since he had aspriations to be at the top without the knowledge or work ethic he never rose above a bottom feeder, and as a result left him bitter and angry about employers.  He now feels no job is better than one where he is just another trouble making lazy sob.

Verge wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 8:52am:



verge....you seem to know a lot about an anonymous poster on an internet forum........clairvoyant are you?....or criminal profiler?....or bullsh1t artist?

Why are there always people that assume things and jump to conclusions?.  I have had both good jobs and bad jobs.  I have had a job, where as a shop floor worker, I have made more money than most supervisors would.  I have also had bad jobs, where some people wouldn't be able to last a week, let alone even a day.   

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I want a CEO's job with a guaranteed 1 st division lottery win for a salary LOL

Sir lastnail wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 1:11pm:



You`ll have to complete your HSC first, among a few other things.

mavisdavis wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 1:30pm:


How many CEO's have a proper education ?? Gerry Harvey LOL

cods wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 7:05am:

so true ..there are a lot of snivelling crawling back stabbing brown nose assholes in the workforce trying to earn favours from the boss at the expense of others

Sir lastnail wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 1:23pm:


and look... just as booby posts up pops toenail! these two gay lovers shoudl really at least TRY and not act as tho they live together!

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 5:01pm:


how's new start going ?? have you opened up your new hair dressing salon yet LOL

and Gerry must have got his education from Arthur Daly LOL

OK,

You Guys........

Define the word JOB.

j.

what_next wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 9:19am:


I think verge is on the money this time.

listen,
you ppl are avoiding my question.

define the word  JOB.


btw, this forum is not much, but it's the only thing we got.



postscript  -  you are a bunch of jerks who inhabit nice little (sue-able) web sites, like
this.

pathetic.
get a gun and shoooooot the front bottoms in gov't.

this place (australia) hasn't been right since the '50's.

btw, my real name is HABIB MU-STUFFHER MOREHAMMERD.

oh boy, am i bored with you ppl.

not an IQ above 90 here, i'll wager.

(lotza love)

j.

djrbfm wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 8:03pm:


the thing you find in the bottom of the bowl after you've had a crap

Thats why they call them "Jobs"
rather than Careers or Vocations.

Because all "Jobs" suck.
I've worked many a 'job' that has both physical and mental abuse both internally and from the public. Throw in the crap money and ugly chicks. I've even had to clean poo from people's bums as a 'job'.
I think people should just 'HTFU' and deal with the fact that it is their own self-inflicted fault for not having followed their bliss in regards to career and vocation in life, let alone not having used 'jobs' as a foundation or supporting role towards a career and vocation.

Most people who feel obliged to 'just' work a job and nothing else towards a career and vocation tend to be only interested in SEX anyway - you know the type, always in the janitors room. What about that boring bus driver who just drives buses - but he has fathered 32 children to female passengers who let him know "They're ovulating" and in need.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 6:38pm:


im prepared to call you a liar on that score. Its not like your credibility on any other issue is good either. You dont know nail or fullofit. these aer ANONYMOUS forums you total moron.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 24^th, 2011 at 7:47am:


nope. you are still a liar. you dont know each other and you just support crazy liars because you are the same. the same way you constantly mention your 6years of uni education but wont even tell us what is was. Everything you toe-nail and imfullofit says screams uneducated bitter bogan. There are some professionals on here and they stand out. so do you - but for the reverse reasons.

its been said a thousand times that you could support some of the things you say with a few bits of non-identifiable information the likes of which the rest of us share but no... you maintain your idiotic and unsupported positions in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

try again, loser.