The best and worst sides of the most popular professions are named
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Everyone knows that you can not buy health for any money and you need to protect it while it is, because it is very difficult to restore lost forces, and often it is impossible at all. Our health is influenced by various factors, including our chosen profession. There is no such place of work, where everything would be perfect. Each profession has negative aspects, but one can always find positive aspects. Let's get acquainted with different professions and spheres of labor closer, and find out all the shortcomings and dignities of a particular place of work.
Programmer
Advantages: This is one of the most popular professions in the field of information technology. Programmers have the opportunity to work in large companies, and accordingly, to receive a decent salary.
Disadvantages: Sedentary work, when a person moves very little, can lead to the accumulation of extra pounds and even obesity. In addition, daily work in front of the monitor's screen impairs vision and leads to eye strain.
Florist
Pluses: Work in the environment of flowers - what can be more beautiful? Studies show that being surrounded by plants lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of depression and stress.
Disadvantages : No matter how they protect flowers from stress and anxiety, working with them still has some emotional tension, because the timing of the realization of the flower production is very short and it is necessary to sell the bouquets faster so as not to lose profit. In addition, the florist must monitor the state of the water in which the flowers are, and therefore constantly have to lift heavy buckets, which can respond to back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Civil servants
Advantages: Often such workers are provided with a full social package, and also have the opportunity to rest on holidays and not to twitch from the phone call on vacation, worrying that they will be called to work, which you can not say, for example, about employees of private organizations. Also, employees of state structures have the opportunity to use the services of health programs.
Disadvantages: Low salary with not always favorable working conditions.
[Secretariat
Advantages: According to researchers from the University of Georgia, secretaries are least likely to suffer from injuries and various diseases.
Disadvantages: Stress, the performance of other people's responsibilities, a sedentary lifestyle that causes back pain and weight gain.
Fireman / policeman
Pluses: People who do not have enough adrenaline in their lives, these professions will come in handy.
Disadvantages: Every day workers of these professions are at risk of death. Work is associated with a high level of stress, because firefighters or policemen better go to people with iron nerves and excellent health.
Lawyer
Pluses: In the field of jurisprudence, this profession can be called one of the most interesting and popular. Also there is the possibility of career growth and, accordingly, an increase in labor remuneration.
Disadvantages: According to a study conducted by scientists in 2007, the work of lawyers is associated with an increased risk of depression. And a poll conducted among lawyers shows that out of 10 workers in this specialty, only four find it attractive.
Truckers
Advantages: One hundred percent male work, which requires the ability to eliminate problems with the car and quickly assess the situation: add or reduce speed, make the necessary maneuver. Constant change of the situation and new places.
Disadvantages: Lack of comfortable working conditions, lifting weights, repairing the machine on cold ground and stress.
Freelancer
Pluses: Remote work, which does not require presence in the office, so for freelancers, "every weather is a blessing," because you do not need to run to the office in a heat or cold. Also a big plus is a flexible schedule, as well as the absence of "Mondays, alarms and bosses."
Disadvantages: Again, sedentary work and lack of communication. In addition, such a free schedule can turn into a chaotic regime of the day.
Dentist
Pluses: Well-paid job, the opportunity to be useful to people.
Disadvantages: Often dentists suffer from back pain, because they have to incline in an uncomfortable position over the patient. And clients come across different, because stress resistance will not be superfluous either.
Actor
Pluses: The opportunity to satisfy their ambitions and become famous, high fees, creative profession.
Disadvantages: Sometimes people of these professions are so laid out on the stage that they feel not only physical fatigue, but also emotional exhaustion, and this can be a serious danger to health.