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From Me, Myself and I, Inc.: 10 Steps to Career Independence

"Step 9: Integrate Your Work and Your Life"

The Pressure Cooker
The most important way to find and keep balance in your life is to be able to deal effectively with the emotional issues that come up all the time. One persistent source of emotional issues for people today is the tension, concern, worry or anger that they feel as they realize they're facing a change in their relationship to work.
These emotional issues are expressions of natural human responses — the same ones we all have when we're afraid or frustrated. They're caused by the fact that we're surrounded by a swirling sea of contradictory demands as the old employment social contract — everything we thought we knew about jobs and employment — is being transformed in the molecular marketplace:

you're worried about the future of your job;
you want to get or hold a job for security, but full-time positions are going away;
you worked hard to get an education, but you still don't have the experience to work in the field you desire;
your ideal job requires that you move to a place you hate;
you work hard to get a position with a good company, only to find that the company has been taken over by another firm;
you've sacrificed to meet the minimum standards for your chosen livelihood, only to find there are no opportunities available;
you consciously sought out new opportunities to expand your skills, only to have someone question whether you're able to hold a steady job;
you've settled for a job that isn't ideal but works for you, and then find you're at risk of being displaced by someone else;
you really just hate your job (or your boss).
Of course, emotional issues also arise from pressures and contradictions that develop in other areas of your life besides work. Causes of emotional issues can include relationships, health, concerns about other people, the environment, the state of the world, and on and on. . . .

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