How Extreme Is Your Job?
February 20th, 2007Hamster on the wheel? It’s more like out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Via: MSNBC:
“The hamster-on-the-wheel analogy is the best way to describe how I felt,” she says. For Agoglia, quitting felt like her only option.
It’s a feeling shared by many Americans who know that simply working hard isn’t enough anymore. To get ahead, a 70-hour work week is the new standard. What little spare time is left is often divvied up among relationships, kids and sleep.
Just how bad have things gotten? That’s the subject of Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek, a recent study from the Center for Work-Life Policy. The study found that 1.7 million people consider their jobs and their work hours extreme, thanks to globalization, BlackBerries, corporate expectations and their own Type A personalities.
Our corporate masters like it best when they have tricked us into feeling like we ‘need’ to work 70 hours a week and f*ck with blackberries (cheese). Not hampsters on treadmills, but rats in cages.