Japan: one fifth of employees at risk of death from overwork – report

[umbertino]

More than 20% of workers clocked dangerous levels of overtime each month, according to a government survey

Agence France-Presse

Saturday 8 October 2016 06.35 BST

While the popular image of Japanese salarymen toiling long hours is changing, many still work longer than their foreign counterparts.

Photograph: Alamy

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/08/japan-one-fifth-of-employees-at-risk-of-death-from-overwork-report

[MyLadiesDaddy]

 I find this study to be extremely funny. I've worked over 70 hrs a week for over 25 yrs and I can tell anyone two things.

1st. I look like someone that is 38 yrs old and not the actual 52 yrs that I am. 

2nd. I have the stamina of a teenager and I have a much younger wife that will attest to that fact. 

I have been to Japan and the Asian territories many times, they are a wonderful and hard working people with a strong purpose.

I pray that they don't succumb to the western ideology that suggest that hard work is anything other than good for the soul.    

 

[umbertino]

Working for living...or...living just for working? 

Edited October 8, 2016 by umbertino

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, umbertino said:

Working for living...or...living just for working? 

 Working to live, or living to work. Ask yourself, my friend, why it is that so many retiree's  die within two yrs of their retirement. Working is what makes us alive, whether we do it for the good of humanity or we do it for our families or we do it for only ourselves. Work is what gives us purpose. 

[umbertino]

19 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

 Working to live, or living to work. Ask yourself, my friend, why it is that so many retiree's  die within two yrs of their retirement. Working is what makes us alive, whether we do it for the good of humanity or we do it for our families or we do it for only ourselves. Work is what gives us purpose. 

LGD, my Friend...I said "living just for working"..I know one has to work..but there are also other things besides working, while working......Cultivating hobbies, volunteering, travelling around etc...I know ( and I'm sorry  about it) that some people take their lives  because at time of retirement they feel lost without work organizing all their time but that might also depend on the fact they didn't conceive anything else in their lives apart  from working..So they find themselves all of a sudden with way too much time on their hands and  get depressed ..Of course jmho.

Edited October 8, 2016 by umbertino

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, umbertino said:

LGD, my Friend...I said "living just for working"..I know one has to work..but there are also other things besides working, while working......Cultivating hobbies, volunteering, travelling around etc...I know ( and I'm sorry  about it) that some people take their lives  because at time of retirement they feel lost without work organizing all their time but that might also depend on the fact they didn't conceive anything else in their lives apart  from working..So they find themselves all of a sudden with way too much time on their hands and  get depressed ..Of course jmho.

 Oh my dear sweet friend, here is the very thing that you and I do agree on  even though oceans are between us, I can tell from your words that everything that you do is for you a form or work. And so it is with me. The job that I get paid for is just the beginning, I like to  consider my real work the things that I do for the Lord. And that work will never come to an end, God willing. 

[nstoolman1]

1 hour ago, umbertino said:

because at time of retirement they feel lost without work organizing all their time but that might also depend on the fact they didn't conceive anything else in their lives apart  from working..

Those are the people that "live to work". I fall under the category of "work to live". I don't identify with my job. If I have an income not dependent on work you can bet I will find other things to keep busy. I have hobbies and other activities to stay active. After I retire I plan to go to the Costcos in the area and either get a part time job or do for free the carts in the parking lot. I do that a few days a week and I will get great exercise and maybe a few dollars. 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 minute ago, nstoolman1 said:

Those are the people that "live to work". I fall under the category of "work to live". I don't identify with my job. If I have an income not dependent on work you can bet I will find other things to keep busy. I have hobbies and other activities to stay active. After I retire I plan to go to the Costcos in the area and either get a part time job or do for free the carts in the parking lot. I do that a few days a week and I will get great exercise and maybe a few dollars. 

 Oh that is so my point, my friend. Our work defines who we are. We can work for only ourselves or we can work for the greater good. And that goes to the core of who I am, "choose ye this day whom ye shall serve, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord". And in so doing we will serve others. 

[umbertino]

12 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

 Oh my dear sweet friend, here is the very thing that you and I do agree on  even though oceans are between us, I can tell from your words that everything that you do is for you a form or work. And so it is with me. The job that I get paid for is just the beginning, I like to  consider my real work the things that I do for the Lord. And that work will never come to an end, God willing. 

Sounds good...

[SnowGlobe7]

The secret is to Love the work you do.....if you love it...ti no longer is work.

[nstoolman1]

A friend told me "The best job is the one you would do even if you did not get paid."  

I had that one already. We( Me and the better half) raised 2 beautiful daughters.

On the other hand I never found one that paid money I would give up the money to do. 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, nstoolman1 said:

A friend told me "The best job is the one you would do even if you did not get paid."

 Now that sounds like a small business owner

[nstoolman1]

He is a motor cop for LAPD. He told me if they stopped paying him he would do it for free. 

[umbertino]

On 9/10/2016 at 3:08 AM, nstoolman1 said:

Those are the people that "live to work". I fall under the category of "work to live". I don't identify with my job. If I have an income not dependent on work you can bet I will find other things to keep busy. I have hobbies and other activities to stay active. After I retire I plan to go to the Costcos in the area and either get a part time job or do for free the carts in the parking lot. I do that a few days a week and I will get great exercise and maybe a few dollars. 

That should be the way, imho. Grazie for your testimonial, nstoolman

[Theseus]

I once overworked... wait that was overslept...nevermind

Edited October 11, 2016 by Theseus