How to manage expectations when your dream job loses its luster
Lisa Cohen and Sandra E. SpataroMay 23, 2021, 11:56 IST
Employers can help alleviate employee frustration by allowing them to tweak their job description and create new opportunities.shutterstock
Many people often have high expectations of what their dream job will be like.
But there are often mundane aspects of the job that can turn off unsuspecting hopefuls.
Employers can create a better job experience by creating more collaborative job descriptions.
What happens when you land your dream job but it turns out to be anything but?
Friends, career consultants and the media inundate us with a constant barrage of advice telling us to follow our dreams, find our bliss or pursue our passions in our professional lives. Yet this kind of advice is not always easily followed.
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Current isolation policies will negatively impact young children s immune systems ability to self-regulate.
When people are less exposed to the natural environment, there s potential for an increase in allergic diseases.
Children in lockdown for over a year now are at risk for developing allergies, asthma, and autoimmune issues. Eat dirt! is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T. Weiss, and it captured my attention while I was learning about an immunological concept known as the hygiene hypothesis.
The core of the idea is that we live in a microbial world: an environment full of bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. And that our interactions with these microbes after birth are extremely important to educate our immune systems to function properly. When we are born, our immune systems are still maturing.
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Black Americans are being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white Americans, says bioethicist Esther Jones.
Still, many Black people are skeptical about receiving the vaccine due to distrust of the American medical system.
Jones says healthcare workers and policymakers can help close racial health gap by understanding the source of this skepticism.
Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized foremergency use in the US, only 35% of Black survey respondents said they d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.
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Americans are still financially struggling during the pandemic despite aid from the government.
A new study suggests further government aid is needed on a larger scale to help tens of millions of families.
Low-income Black and Latino households may need more than others.
As Congress prepares another injection of COVID-19 aid for businesses and individuals, there s been debate about whether it s necessary on top of the US$3.5 trillion spent so far.
President Joe Biden had initially hoped to get bipartisan support for his $1.9 trillion proposal, but the only counteroffer from Republicans was a $600 billion bill, with many in the GOP suggesting more money wasn t needed. And some economists have expressed concern that giving Americans too much right now could overheat the economy.