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Third Edition College English Intensive Reading Unit 10 Text 4
Unit 10

Do you think work is a burden or an opportunity? Are you the kind of person who tries to conserve energy or feel satisfied with consuming energy? Why do some people like to complain about their work? Find the answer below.

Why do people work?

Leonard sayles

1 Occupation and work play a much more important role in making people happy and satisfied than most of us realize. We are all used to thinking that work provides material for life-goods and services that make our modern civilization possible. But we know little about the role of work in promoting spiritual life. This role is elusive, but more critical. It is the decisive factor of whether life is full or empty.

Historically, work has been associated with slavery, sin and punishment. Nowadays, we often hear those old-fashioned complaints: "I can't wait to have a holiday early", "I wish I had stayed at home today", "The boss is not nice to me", "I have too many things to do" and so on. In this case, you may be surprised to find that psychologists and other behavioral scientists believe that work has a positive effect on personal happiness and personal achievement. For most people, work is not only a necessity, but also the focus of people's lives and the source of their individuality and creativity.

Work is neither a punishment nor a burden. It provides an opportunity for individuals to develop their potential abilities. Many attending doctors in psychiatric clinics have observed the therapeutic effect of work. Many clinically depressed patients will regain their self-confidence and lose some (if not all) of the most serious symptoms once they are employed in a profitable job. More and more institutions dealing with mental illness have set up workshops where patients who are too ill to find jobs in "outside" factories can work. At the same time, this

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Some institutions also try their best to arrange "real" jobs for those who are physically fit to work outside.

or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium For many people, not having a job is harmful to their health. Even if retirement does not cause economic worries, it often brings "how can I live in the future?" There are many such problems. Many people have to arrange their own lives because they don't go to work on weekends, resulting in headaches and other discomfort. It has also been observed that unemployment not only causes economic pressure, but also causes a lot of psychological pain. Once many people lose their jobs, their health will deteriorate rapidly.

Why is this? Why is work an important source of people's satisfaction? The main answer is that work and achievements achieved through work can arouse pride. Pride of achievement

People are eager for success and have the ability to do things with their own hands, their own brains and their own will. Each of us hopes that we can do something meaningful and show our talents.

This is most easily seen in craftsmen. He lovingly turned a low-value material into something useful, beautiful or both. You can see carpenters or masons often stand by and admire their products.

The researchers also found that employees are proud of their work achievements even if there is no obvious final product to show their personal expertise. Our own investigation in the hospital shows that even office workers and laundry workers are proud of their work, and they have helped to cure patients through their work-so they have made many achievements.

We are often misled by complaints about the difficulty of our work. Deep down, most people regard their ability to solve difficult problems as personal Excellence. Complaining is also part of the job. After all, how can you know yourself if you don't show the ability to control your words and deeds? To a large extent, you can achieve it.

10 Some people mistakenly think that people like to preserve their physical strength, like to rest and try their best to maintain themselves. The opposite is true. It takes energy to be really satisfied.

1 1 Try to see an employee who has to deal with countless others because his work is at the center of a communication network: a salesman at a busy counter, a stockbroker who keeps calling, or a customer agent. They will tell you what skills and experience you need to answer countless questions and deal with all kinds of people at any time. Not everyone can deal with people for a long time with such resilience. But those who can do this are proud of their outstanding talents and great contributions to the operation of their units.

12 but work is not only the pride of achievement and competence, because except for the work of a few craftsmen and artists, most of the work is done outside, in cooperation with or through others. team spirit

13 Maybe there is an example to illustrate this point.

I remember seeing six workers in a chair factory. Their job is to bend several steel pipes to form a folding chair. Although there are 10 or 20 such "groups" working together, one group has a particularly tacit cooperation and moves very quickly. These people know that they are capable. They often have to work hard for twenty or thirty minutes before they are willing to rest-in order to show themselves, onlookers and other teams what the best team in the factory is like with superb skills and self-restraint.

14 When I talked with them, each of them was deeply proud of being a member of the fastest and best team. This sense of belonging to a skilled team is one of the most prominent satisfactions brought by work.

15 say a little more about getting satisfaction from the work team. Unlike other aspects of life.

More importantly, the relationship between employees tends to be simple, less complicated and less emotional. This is not to say that there are no quarrels and jealousy at work. But on the whole, behavioral science research reveals that people get along well at work. This may be because interpersonal relationships at work are more regular and predictable, so they are easier to coordinate, while in society, interpersonal relationships are intermittent, tense and irregular. In addition, the working team will put a little pressure on its members to learn to coordinate with each other and eliminate "friction", because people know that they have to work hard and cooperate with each other every day to complete a certain job.

16 there is a higher organization above the working class and groups, which may be companies, hospitals and universities. Working in a larger group is like working in a successful unit with tacit cooperation, and its members can get the same pride. Working in one of the best companies recognized by society can bring social status and self-confidence to employees. They often think that because they are associated with a "winner" and a prestigious institution, others value them more and even envy them. They also think they are more capable than ordinary people. In fact, we are often immersed in the honor embodied by this institution, and we strive to show our identity and let others understand and recognize our good luck.