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Even if a man's whole day be spent as a servant of an industrial concern, in his spare time he will make something, if only a window box flower garden. ((Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography, 2nd paragraph, via laudator temporis acti, accessed 200915)) A job is not
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There are 120,000 excess deaths per year attributed to ten workplace conditions and they cause approximately $190 billion in incremental health care costs. That makes the workplace the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. — higher than Alzheimer’s, higher than kidney disease. 1. Being unemployed sometimes
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research shows that it doesn’t always meet expectations.
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I think that working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two… Work is an expression of life for me. [youtube=http://youtu.be/tk6oQbhZRdE] h/t Brain Pickings.
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Food for thought on the topic of work and non-work, and the false dichotomy between work and life. via The Road to Wigan Pier: There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them. The labourer
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via washingtonpost.com.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2SedHd93DQ] They came to play, a film by Alex Rotaru (twitter @AlexRotaru) chronicles the 2007 edition of the competition, which is held in Texas and open to those 35 and older who do not play professionally. It has run on an irregular schedule
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About 62 percent of small-business employees think pay is better at larger companies (and 72 percent think benefits are better), but they stay at their jobs anyway, according to the survey of 474 employees at both large and small firms. Small-company workers cite a better working environment as