Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun! - Jim Morrison
You can tell.
It's been scientifically proven that stress can take a toll not just mentally, but also physically and even financially.
According to a recent study published by the US National Library of Medicine that considered data collected in more than 20 countries worldwide, the total estimated cost of WRS (work-related stress) is observed to be considerable and ranges substantially from $221.13 million to $187 billion US dollars.
Most people who're suffering chronical diseases originated by stress are trapped in situations from where they can hardly escape.
It's complicated to elude the pressure to perform if you need to feed a family, repay a loan or meet whatever obligation.
Yet, nobody in the world should ever overwork in a way that it seriously endangers their lives.
How to break the spiral?
@surfermarly hanging at the beach
Hange loose?
In the Hawaiian Islands Hang Loose is used as a non verbal expression or greeting to tell the recipient that everything will be alright.
It means:
Relax, take it easy!
That's easier said than done.
Relaxing or slowing down is even frowned upon in our today's performance society.
In a perverse twist, longer work hours have become a status symbol—a marker of how important, indeed indispensable, someone is …. As such, people want to put in long hours to signal how valuable they are. - Jeffrey Pfeffer in Dying For A Paycheck
Performance has become an overvalued provider for self-esteem.
Don't we have other tools to reward human effort?
Change.
Recently researchers even investigated a first link between chronic stress, genetics, and mental illness in mice.
Also similar DNA modifications have been discovered in the brains of clinically depressed people who committed suicide.
We urgently need to find better ways to reward human effort and protect people from exploitation.
Tokenized networks offer a great first alternative for a new distrubution of values.
Human effort, creation and interaction are financially rewarded again and help to re-establish the original idea of added value.
The fact that people are compensated for their time invested helps them to develop a natural understanding of self-worth.
It's a great attemp to break through traditional work models and offer people a way to directly monetize their personal skills.
That kind of contribution to society is one of the biggest assets of STEEM - and a silverlining to many.
Stay healthy and hang loose, steemians!
Much love,
Marly -
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well, I am currently unemployed and I have to look for a job but now I am taking my time and looking for something that interests me. Something in the crypto world because this really has been a passion for the last year. Setting up a non profit has been a part of it.
So here is hoping to be able to live a crypto life, if not sooner, then a little bit later.
I cross my fingers for you to find that perfect wave :-)
Crypto offers a lot of alternative ways to make a living, so that could really be a good option.
Now there are also many people saying that they expect Steem price to go up by January... that'd be also helpful to all of us :-)
Yeah working 16 hour days, including weekends was not uncommon for me. Sometimes I wouldn't see daylight for a month. My advice if you are in that situation; get the hell out of there. It gets worse when you figure out that working more than about 49.5 hours per week puts you in a higher tax bracket and working double shifts benefits the tax man more than you.
In the company I was working for before I decided to change my life considerably, I made 80 unpaid extra hours in one month (240 instead of 160hrs as agreed per contract) which were equivalent to two extra weeks of free work.That's a good advice, @onnovocks. Been there!
They had fired a colleague of mine and I had to do her job on top of mine which was obviously not able within my regular working schedule. As a matter of course, I was totally exhausted after that month and started to make mistakes, which was then their reason to doubt my efficiency.
I would never ever go back to such a system, not even if they paid me 1 million dollar.
Hola querido amigo @onnovocks, no se puede trabajar en exceso, hace daño a la salud, hay que trabajar, responsablemente, para mantener a la familia, pero no permitir el abuso.
Tienes toda la razón. Cariños y besos.
Lo sé. Ya no tengo mi salud ...
Abrazos!
You might be hanging a little too loose in this paragraph. :-)
I 100% agree. If work is stressing you out all the time (once in a while is normal), then you should change jobs.
"Love what you do, Do what you love" Bill and Bob Meistrell EDIT: Ray Bradbury said it first
Hahaha, apparently I was still in my weekend hang loose mode when setting up that paragraph :-D It's modified now. Thanks for the funny hint, hehe
I wish everybody could just sign that quote and do what they love for a living. It's complicated, but we need to find and offer ways to more and more people to live their personal freedom.
Isn't that what life is all about? :-)
Jim Morrison, had some pretty smart things to say, sometimes...I was trapped before in the 9 to 5 lifestyle, with loads of overtime and stress, now Im "free" from that, and more happy I guess, but I sure miss the money... Thanks for sharing! Hang loose @surfermarly! 🤙
/FF
Everything in life comes with a price tag as they say. So we may not be rich according to our bank accounts, but fulfilled...:-)
Have a happy free Monday!
!Hola @surfermarly! Tienes mucha razon, no se puede vivir solamente para trabajar, la vida es una sola y hay que disfrutar y compartir mas con nuestros seres queridos, ¡La vida es bella! Un abrazo cariñoso.
Siempre habra, la responsabilidad del trabajo, para poder mantener a la familia, pero no abusar con exceso.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con tu punto de vista: responsabilidad sí, pero no excesivamente. Hay que proteger nuestros valores que incluyen la dignidad humana.Muchas gracias por pasarte por mi blog @celinavisaez!
Un abrazo y buen comienzo de la semana!
Hola @celinavisaez
Hi Surfermarly,
Fantastic post - excellent advice!
Upvoted and resteemed :D
Glad you enjoyed it in such way.
Have a great Monday yourself!THANKS for your tireless support @icedrum!! :-)
You too :D
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It is so important that people take the time to 'check out' or 'hang loose' every now and then. Unfortunately it is not par of the modern workforce mentality. It is much worse here in North America than I had experienced growing up in Australia. There are lots of studies where people work harder and have better outputs if you give them more holidays. Yet business still tries to cut back on on the freedom which matters in peoples lives; in a quest for short term gains over long term productivity.
I fully agree on that.
The other day I got a book recommendation from a steemian, today it arrived - can't wait to start reading it :-) It exactly picks up that theory of letting people their freedom in order to help them to fully perform.
Nice . I read that some time ago . It’s the Patagonia story. Have not see them updated one.
Is the world a meritocracy? Of course. There’s not much that you get for free. Whether this makes sense depends on your definition of “merit”. 😉
Well that only applies if you're able to define the conditions of the contracts you enter. If someone works more than 40 hours per week but doesn't earn enough for a living, then someone takes clear advantage of that situation. And as I mentioned in the article, not all the time you're able to just quit a job and look for a new one (having a family to feed, for instance).
Everything in life comes with a price tag, I fully agree on that point. But that still doesn't justify exploitation...
Thanks for stopping by @ryanlj and welcome to Steem btw, just seen that you joined the network recently :-)
Hi @surfermarley!
Of course, you can, it’s just a matter of whether you realise it. Exploitation is not a part of true meritocracy - after all, when everyone serves in a position appropriate to their skills and understanding, harmonious outcomes are guaranteed. The oligarchic structures that feature so prominently in western societies these days show that those who exploit others most ruthlessly are usually personality-disordered characters qualified to do little else; such structures are actually inversely meritocratic. Yet some would have us believe that power and money are synonymous with ‘merit’ regardless of the means of attainment. It’s a bogus narrative that really needs to be disposed of. Platforms like Steem are not the ‘answer’ to ‘meritocracy’, they are a closer representation of what meritocracy really is, or so I think.
Thanks for the welcome! I’ve enjoyed reading your posts, and I think the Steem blockchain has the potential to be extremely beneficial. Looking forward to seeing what the future reveals!
Sometimes it is harder not to work that much , rather than work
Hey @edgarsart! :-)
Well I think key is to be efficient in whatever you do. Nobody should work > 40 hrs per week just because someone else believes you should.
Jobs must not be based on working schedules but target achievement, independently from time. It's not contemporary to force people to spend X hours in an office just because it's written on some paper.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your point of view :-)
+Completely true. I still think it is great n a way that some jobs are going away, like cashiers and that we could use automatics to do certain things. Rather than human beings spending 12 hours sitting , when they could do other things, like creative things, singing, dancing, painting etc
My definition of hanging loose might be different to yours but it's not something I aspire to... I prefer the idea of 'flow' - being totally engaged with an activity for the sake of the activity, and if you hit that yr being maximally productive wout even thinking about being productive.
(I think maybe you conflate the two concepts!)
Being 'disciplined' by someone else measuring yr productivity is what really sucks and is the antithesis of both.
NB I read this 'cos of the ref to meritocracy, but I don't think you really deal with that issue!
Still for thought though.
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There is quite a bit of research out there now on how dead time 'aka boredom" increases creative output. That is the problem with going with the flow continuously from one project to the next, you never let your brain step back from everything and see the bigger picture. Which it only seems capable of doing effectively when you starve it of other input. https://www.fastcompany.com/3042046/the-science-behind-how-boredom-benefits-creative-thought
I think there is some truth in it - simply subjectively if I have a couple of days off I'm raring to go.
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Yes for sure.
I really needed this, I was beginning to feel that longer hours in a job proved worth. I kinda see it differently now.
I'd hangloose and take this more gently this time.
Thanks for this.
With love,
Ced😊
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Really great article. Some years ago I nearly lost my life, because I worked so many hours and felt irreplaceable. After this near death experience and 5 months in the hospital, I changed my life. Two months ago I started here at Steemit and I am fired up. Everyone gets a reward for being active here, that is really the best of STEEM. You get directly rewarded.