Her perception of the workload she could handle was a direct recipe for copious stress. The author, Clausen argues that overworking can cause other areas of our lives to be affected by devotion to our careers. Because of the excessive dedication towards an occupation our focus on daily life diminishes such as family lives, social lives, and basic health which are as equally or even more important than any job. Holding a career above other areas of our lives, as an ideal in society can affect any family's daily life. The most affected relationship is most likely the relationship between a mother and her children. Mother’s in particular can experience this devotion to work particularly in today’s society. According to the article, Signaling
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Overworking can cause even your basic health to deteriorate. According to medical research in a study recently published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, describing how many more people are experiencing “job strain”, the author asserts that excessive stress comes from overloading ourselves and fatigue. The stress from overworking can have multiple negative effects on our bodies and lives, such as heart disease, diabetes, sleep deprivation, and even death. It has even caused our risk of developing type 2 diabetes to “increase by a shocking 45%.” This is conflicting because stress affects everyone of us at some point in our lives, and it increases especially with the stress of a job. Ultimately, encouraging this stress to remain in our lives causes major health problems in our futures. In conclusion, there are many conflicting and negative effects of being completely consumed with work. The ideal in today’s society to devote our lives to our careers can negatively affect our family lives, and health which will cause even larger problems in the future if our culture continues to encourage this ideal. It’s necessary to relax and participate in other areas of life in order to be happy and healthy. In society today we should emphasize the ideal of working hard at improving not only our own lives but everyone else’s around us as
Overworking can cause even your basic health to deteriorate. According to medical research in a study recently published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, describing how many more people are experiencing “job strain”, the author asserts that excessive stress comes from overloading ourselves and fatigue. The stress from overworking can have multiple negative effects on our bodies and lives, such as heart disease, diabetes, sleep deprivation, and even death. It has even caused our risk of developing type 2 diabetes to “increase by a shocking 45%.” This is conflicting because stress affects everyone of us at some point in our lives, and it increases especially with the stress of a job. Ultimately, encouraging this stress to remain in our lives causes major health problems in our futures. In conclusion, there are many conflicting and negative effects of being completely consumed with work. The ideal in today’s society to devote our lives to our careers can negatively affect our family lives, and health which will cause even larger problems in the future if our culture continues to encourage this ideal. It’s necessary to relax and participate in other areas of life in order to be happy and healthy. In society today we should emphasize the ideal of working hard at improving not only our own lives but everyone else’s around us as