6 signs that work is bad for your health

When work makes you literally sick, it’s time to change something. And you can not delay with this: there is a real story when a Japanese journalist died of fatigue. She worked 159 hours of overtime in a month and didn’t even notice the symptoms of heart failure. Collected the clear signs that your job is taking a toll on your health.

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Nausea, headaches, frequent colds – clear resistance reactions to something that is actually affecting you negatively.

How do you realize it’s time to change jobs?

Having trouble sleeping

Insomnia is one of the signs of stress. If you’re thinking about work even at night or you’re dreaming about the constant drudgery of work, it’s cause for concern. Sleep problems can lead to negative consequences: depression, decreased immunity, anxiety, premature aging, lower metabolism, and increased risk of injury.

If you can barely get up in bed, that is, on the contrary, you sleep a lot and do not get enough sleep, this is also a bad sign. Not only fatigue is to blame for drowsiness. One of the reasons may be increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol – stress hormones.

Getting sick often

If you get colds regularly and sick leave is a delight, you’re clearly not in the right place. Coughing up to bronchitis, allergic manifestations, constant rashes on the body, especially on the hands, which threatens to grow (or has already grown) into atopic dermatitis – all this is a reason to think.

You dread thinking about work

You can’t find more than two things you like about your job. Usually it’s something like “good pay”, “prestigious place”. Beyond the arguments of reason, you emotionally don’t find what it is about the actual job that really pleases and inspires you.

You feel unhappy

It is worth paying attention to these signs as well:

• you feel an inner emptiness and lack of interest in the work process;
• you do everything through force, through “I don’t want to”, only because you “have to”;
• there is a feeling inside that you are not in your place;
• you are unhappy and realize that the job you have now is definitely not yours;
• you don’t find a use for your talents and abilities in the tasks you have to do;
• you do not get involved in the process with pleasure, you are not inspired by the result you get.