Work
Work was always something essential. Without work there is no development. There wouldn’t be life if humans didn’t work. Nowadays money rules the world (earlier too but not so much) and if we want to earn money we have to work. Work as a profession, job is very important so most of people prepare to their future job early in school.
It doesn’t matter if somebody wants to be rich or only have money for basic commodities they all have to work. But it is easy to notice that different people have different attitudes to it.
Workaholics spend most of their lives working and find it impossible to relax and rest, no matter how tired and overworked they are. They usually don’t take holidays, and weekends area a nightmares for them. If it’s possible they spend their weekends in the office or at last take papers computer and they work at home.
Workaholism
In today’s word work has become an inseparable part of our lives. It doesn’t matter if somebody wants to be rich or only have money for basic commodities they all have to work. But it is easy to notice that different people have different attitudes to it. For some of us work is a very important thing in life and for others it isn’t. It’s something which we want to do but which we have to do but very reluctantly. However, there are also people who exaggerate in respect to work. They live to work and not the other way round. They approach to work is not sound. They are called workoholics.
We can easily identify workaholics. They get up early because they want to have more time for their illness – work – and they also return home very late. But it is the mildest form of these sickness. Worcoholism in more dangerous stage it can lead even to death. in Japan there is the special word for death from overwork – Karoshi. Statistics say that every year about 10,000 Japanese die from it!
For workaholics work is something like special field of life in which they can show that they are better then other people. Very often it is caused by some complications in their personal life. Work becomes a place in which they feel safe and necessary. Psychiatrists claim that that it is very difficult to treat workaholics. Many of them can’t belief that the fact that some people suffer from the syndromes of workoholism is due to some disorders. They are simply ill.. We must also acknowledge that there aren’t any pills or any easy solution to help those people.
There are two countries in which there is the biggest group of workaholics: USA and Japan. But this problem is connected also with countries like Poland because there is almost impossible for people which earn less that average to pay the bills and have money for eating, especially when they unaided have to provide for family. So if they want to have enough money for life they have to work sometimes even 12 hours a day.
We must say that workaholism can be noticed also among students. Some of us burn the midnights oil because they want to have the best grades. I don’t know if I am in this group. On the one hand I very often learn until about 3 o’clock in the morning, but on the other hand I am completely unorganized and I miss much time in the afternoon. So for me it is hard to say if I am a workaholic.
To sum up, in today’s word work become something very important but we can’t permit that we won’t have any private life but huge amount of money.
Nowadays people have to work to live, they have to earn money to buy many basic things. So work should be the way to live more comfortable, people should work to live on appropriate level, to have happy family, to be satisfied because of doing what they like and what is necessary. But now in Poland as well as all over the world there is a big unemployment. People don’t have work, the families are poor, they have to look for supports from charity organisations or even they start drinking alcohol or stealing. It is really frightening what lack of money may do with people. But also working too much isn’t good. A person who is concentrated only on the work may become workaholic. Then he won’t be interested in his family life, journeys and leisure time. He will be thinking only about work . Work holism is a very dangerous addiction and it should be treated. However, work holism seems to be a disease of the future. Working too hard and too much can be very harmful to out health.
Unfortunately working becomes more stressful. People want to be promoted quickly and to earn more money so they work fifteen hours a day and for that reason they don’t have enough time to rest, to spend with their families. They don’t remember that money should be the means not the aims.
I hope that in the future I will manage to get a good and well paid job and I will be able to do what I like. I expect that my work will be my hobby but not only an unpleasant duty. I would like my work to be a source of satisfaction not frustrations.
Helaa