It's Thursday, pack it up and head home for the weekend (if you're over 40)
Work is bad, say scientists
A recent economic study out of Australia found that people over 40 perform their best when only working three days per week. Working more than three days per week when youÛªre over 40 leads to cognitive decline, which means you perform worse on psychological tests of memory. And furthermore, if you work more than 40 hours per week and youÛªre over 40 there is a steep decline in cognitive performance.
The cure for workaholism is philosophy
A new study of 16,000 Norwegians can be added to the growing pile of research showing an unambiguous link between work and mental disease.
The study found that workaholism is significantly related to psychiatric conditions such as adult ADHD, OCD, and clinical anxiety or depression. The study is called ÛÏThe Relationships between Workaholism and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders: A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional StudyÛ
Okay...there may be an institutional bias when the links come from a magazine named The Idler , but I'm not willing to take the chance 😀
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"The study found that workaholism is significantly related to psychiatric conditions such as adult ADHD, OCD, and clinical anxiety or depression."
Well, duh!! You develop workaholism BECAUSE you have the psychiatric conditions, not the other way around.
I find that if I just take the "time off" while sitting at my desk I can stave off the ADHD, OCD, and clinical anxiety and depression. 😀
Actually, there is some truth to this. I find that if I "bear down" and focus on one particular task and get myself through it, then I "reward" myself with some time surfing the internet or playing a game of solitaire on my phone, I can focus more easily on the tasks I need to do and also I don't find myself feeling as overwhelmed with the things on my desk that need to be done. I know the work will get done, both in a timely fashion and correctly. These "mini-breaks" help me remember that!
Honest boss, me screwing off is the best thing for both of us.
Or spending time at SurveyorConnect ...B-)
If I'm most productive working 40 hrs when I'm 20, and 24 hrs/wk when I'm 40, I project that I really should only be working 14.4 hours/week @ 60 yrs. old.
Would it be fair to say that I do in 14.4 hours what it takes a 20-year-old to do in 40 hrs?
When I was 20... well, I wasn't working as a surveyor then. When I was 24, I worked 45-50 hours per week. Now, at 46, I work 45-50 hours per week. I couldn't tell you if I'm more or less productive now. Probably less...
Science says...
... I can call my golf outing today "sick leave". cha-ching.
Steve
When you own your own business, and have employees, you work 24/7/365. Even when you are on a vacation you will think about the business and be forever looking for tel-tale signs of a surveyor.
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you're welcome...;-) :snarky:
My breaks get more interesting every year. Working from my home all it takes is to wander through other parts of the house. Say I'm headed to the fridge to grab a cold drink. On the way I pass the laundry area and note the washer has stopped running, so I help out by moving the wet stuff to the dryer or other drying locations. As I continue my journey towards the fridge I notice some house plants need watered so I grab the handy dandy little plant water can and give them a drink. About that time the phone rings. It's the neighbor two miles away reporting that a couple of cows just walked past their house and thought I might want to see if they were mine. So, out the door, into the pickup and two miles later discover, thankfully, that they actually belong to a different neighbor so I open his gate and eventually get them back home again. Back to the house. Oh, yes, a cold drink. Once again head towards the fridge only to notice that stack of old newspapers I had promised to move to the garage. Three trips later I'm standing in my office asking myself what to do next. Twenty minutes later I realize that a cold drink sure would be nice.
Tom Adams, post: 375225, member: 7285 wrote: Would it be fair to say that I do in 14.4 hours what it takes a 20-year-old to do in 40 hrs?
Might be more accurate to say that you correctly do something once in 14.4 hours where it takes the 20 year old 40 hours to screw it up first then straighten it out after a 60 year old spent an hour telling the 20 year old why it's screwed up and how to fix it.
About 40 years ago I was part of a tour group going through the tractor manufacturing plant in Romeo, Michigan operated by Ford. Along the way we entered a "room" that must have covered at least 10 acres that was nothing more than a rat's maze of cubicles with human rats assigned to each little cubicle. As my eyeballs were a few inches higher from the floor than the cubicle wall tops I could scan the entire "room". A feeling of fear and depression swept over me as I imagined what it must be like to be assigned to a cubicle near the center of Underling Hell. A simple trip to the rest room could be a major undertaking. Visions of control towers filled with snipers to take out anything that protruded above the standard cubicle wall ran through my brain. Somewhere, out there, was probably the corpse of a now-permanent employee who was a poor navigator who expired in a death loop simply attempting to go home at the end of the day.
Anyone subjected to such working conditions should be able to file some sort of grievance with OSHA and receive huge compensation.
