Wrong job 'can affect well-being'

[wiganpostie]

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In other news, the Pope is a silly hat-wearing religious leader and the sea is blue. I did chuckle at this bit though: "In fact, people who are unemployed can feel better-off mentally than those who are in poor jobs of low "psychosocial quality", the report added."

[DGP1]

Little job security, demanding work and very little control over a role can all impact on people's well-being just as much as unemployment, it found.
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Did they just look at Royal Mail for these findings because that is just what RM is doing.

[krussel]

"This study has shown that work of poor psychosocial quality, characterised by low job control, high job demands and complexity, job insecurity and the perception of unfair pay, does not bestow the same mental health benefits as employment in jobs with high psychosocial quality."

No really i mean i would never have guessed that

When i used to drag myself around my old posh round on a rain soaked saturday morning those smartly dressed well off folks stepping out of their £2m houses straight into this years top of the range Range Rover Sport always seemed very down in the mouth to me and iam sure deep deep down they were wishing to be a humble postie NOT :

"Researchers analysed data from more than 7,000 people in Australia and found well-being was very much dependent on the quality of the job".

It takes researchers to find this out, jesus ask anyone in a low paid, crap job

[DirtyHarry]

Someone should do a study of postal workers.
Angry, depressed, physically exhausted, social lives destroyed, and these are just the good points.

[DGP1]

Someone should do a study of postal workers.
Angry, depressed, physically exhausted, social lives destroyed, and these are just the good points.

Strangely the more work they've piled onto me the happier I am, maybe it's because I love arguing and fighting that I get to be happy so I'm not angry, not depressed, nowhere near as exhausted as I use to be when I ran around to get finished early, I'm married so therefore don't have (or want) a social life

[pokos27]

long term injury as well, talks from atos.