HEALTH: Your job can literally be a pain in the rear

Most people likely don't realize just how much wear and tear they put on their bodies each day through the simple routine of reporting to work.

It's true even if your job entails nothing more strenuous than sitting at a desk all day.

That can be an eye-opening realization for anyone who thinks that the only people who need to be careful about physical injuries are those hard-charging adults who participate in marathons or adult basketball leagues.

A job without work is not all it’s cracked up to be

MORE than a decade ago, I was in a job in which if I had sat down at my desk and worked for 100 hours straight, I would be only slightly less behind than when I started. I was a newspaper editor, stuck in the never-ending grind that caused me to begin having a regular daydream.
Wouldn’t it be nice, I would tell myself as I faced down one deadline after another, if I had a job in which I could just sit still for eight hours a day. No duties, no meetings, no responsibilities — just enter an office, sit down at a desk and collect a pay cheque at month end.

 

At the time I never believed such a job existed, except perhaps in a few dusty corners of the government. But then, after suffering complete burnout in my newspaper job and finding myself back on the market, I discovered first hand that there was such a position in the private sector.