Posted on 09/24/2002 8:33:41 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Boring jobs can kill you. At least that's the claim of researchers from the University of Texas School of Public Health.
The researchers found that workers who spent their lives in undemanding jobs with little control over their work were 35 percent more likely to die during a 10-year period than workers in challenging jobs with lots of decision-making responsibilities, after controlling for other relevant factors.
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