The Life Uncommon - Nacie Carson

As Uncommoners, it’s something we’ve all known for years, but finally science has proved it – bad jobs negatively affect your mental health. In fact, a job that you are unhappy in has been proven worse for your mental health than being unemployed, a situation that is always considered majorly problematic to your mental well being. Last week, Time.com posted an article that outlined the results of a recent psychological study: Australian National University researchers looked at how various psychosocial work attributes affect well-being. They found that poor-quality jobs — those with high demands, low control over decision making, high job insecurity and an effort-reward imbalance — had more adverse effects on mental health than joblessness. The bottom line: “the worse the job, the more it affected workers’ well-being.” More Than Just a Job Over the last three years, I’ve run into people who say that there is no point to living Uncommonly, because a job is just a job.  “What’s the big deal, just clock-in, do your time, and clock-out. No problem.” But what this study underscores is something I’ve known for a long time (and obviously you do to, or else you wouldn’t be here!): there is no way to compartmentalize work from the rest of your life, because your work is part of your life…and a big one at that.  You spend…