Stress in workplace

There are many things in our lives that we have to do, but may be we don’t want to. In my personal life when I finished high school my dream was to follow my studies at the university, but my parents couldn’t pay it, so I have to look for a job to save some money for my studies. In this time to get a job is difficult, but in my case was very easy because in just one month I was already working as a shop assistant in Paris that is a well known shop. The first months I only worked on weekends, but one day my boss made me an offer, and it was to become an integral shop assistant. It meant working five days of the week and acquiring more responsibilities.I needed to work, so I accepted the opportunity. I liked this job and enjoyed of my labors. The first year was good; I learnt many things and met interesting and different kind of people. But with the passing of the time I started to feel bad and a little tired. The labor climate was bad and very competitive. I didn’t feel comfortable working there. My boss asked too much, and I tried to obey with all duties, but I couldn’t.

My plan was to work just one year and save maximum of money, but it wasn’t possible I was working in the shop two years. The problems of each day became unsustainable, and I started to feel frustrated because I wanted to study. I preferred to acquire to a student’s duties than the worker’s ones.

This entire situation provoked in me a deep feeling of disappointment and sadness. Each morning was more difficult to get up and I started to hate my job and all it meant. At night I didn’t sleep well my mind and body didn’t rest. While I was sleeping I felt as if were working because my brain repeated the actions that I had done during the day. Sometimes I dreamt about attending unpleasant and indecisive customer. I think that all this dissatisfaction was the cause of my stress and I am sure that many workers nowadays are victims of this illness.

I believed that a worker’s life is more stressful than a student’s one. It is because of one of the most common action that we usually do by obligation is working and it is the reason why there are many people suffering stress. Meanwhile, when we decide to study in the university all is different from the motivations to the objectives. Maybe both ways need dedication and effort, and worker’s life and student’s life have responsibilities, but to some people one is harder than the other.

When you are working or studying you have to accomplish with duties. Every business, for example, has its own internal rules and authorities, so the worker has to apply to this demand. When I worked I had to sell a definitive quantity of products, and answer to the demands of my bosses and customers. The same occurs with my student life today. I should be responsible with my duties and I am in constant evaluations from my teachers. I like it because I enjoy studying, but I didn’t enjoy working as a shop- assistant.

Despite of the similarity, there are also important differences; worker’s life is more related to stress. It is because the most of people work under pressure or in a bad work environment. Also people work by necessity; many times they are obligated to accept jobs that they may never have done or not have experience. I had never worked, so I didn’t have experience, but I needed the money and I had to accept. Therefore, it shows that the labor life is surrounded of factors that cause stress in people.

However, studying a university career is a personal decision. It implies that there is a different motivation and objectives. For a worker his goal is only monetary or social recognition while a student is concentrated in acquiring knowledge for a personal satisfaction or for in the future can work in something that he feels satisfaction and motivation.

We know that all people have responsibilities of different kind. Workers and students have to confront difficulties every day and the solution of it will depend of your necessities and the motivation that you have, but we have to be careful if these troubles attack more of normal our lives because if it is so we are in the face of other big problem that is the fearsome stress. It is proved that this illness is presented more in workplace than in the universities.

Since 1990 the studies have demonstrated that there are few working environments that are immune from stress. That illness is advancing rapidly becoming one of the most common among workers. There are many causes that help this problem advance each day more among employees.

The principal cause of this common nervous illness is the excess of working hours. Many employers don’t measure the quantity of work that their workers are able to do in a specific time. It is because of understaffing; As a result of that, an employee needs extra time working long hours, and not only for a few days. He passes many weeks or sometimes months working extra time.

Besides of excessive working hours many people have to support bad working conditions. Some jobs needs a competitive personal and it causes a labor climate complicated.

And in other cases the workers doesn’t count with necessary equipment. That doesn’t permit them to realize their job well and sometimes taking risk their lives. There are many kinds of job that need safety equipment but don’t have it, so those jobs are insecure.

Finally, when the relationship between employers and employees is cold and distant the communication between them is difficult, and hinders the solving of problems and taking decisions. This due to some companies having a poor organization in the structure of workplace. Is important that each worker clearly knows who his direct boss is; this avoids produce confusion and extra pressures to him.

In conclusion, every workplace presents its own problems in different ways, but it is important that these troubles don’t interfere with the labor of the workers, their lives and the relationship that they have with their managers and colleges. We should try as a whole that these causes of stress decrease in their effect in the daily labor of people. We have to try finding a motivation in everything that we do, and to find a solution for the problems at time with supporting of our colleagues, classmates, bosses or teachers. The clue is to add to our daily life the work team to make easy getting of our objectives in any area of life.