2016中国女排大学英语4精读 Unit 10 课文 WHY PEOPLE WORK

2021年1月19日发(作者：惠庆祺)
Unit 10
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Do you view work as a burden or an opportunity? Are you the kind of person who looks
for ways to save your energy or the kind that finds spending your energy satisfying? Why do
people like to complain about work? Find the answers to question like these in the following
essay.










WHY PEOPLE WORK




















Leonard R. Sayles
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.
We're
all
used
to
thinking
that
work
provides
the
material
things
of
life
--
the
goods
and
services that make possible our modern civilization. But we are much less conscious of the
extent to which work provides the more intangible, but more crucial, psychological well-being
that can make the difference between a full and an empty life.


Historically, work has been associated with slavery and sin and punishment. And in our own
day we are used to hearing the traditional complaints:
could stay home today,
enough time to do it.
not
only
psychologists
but
other
behavioral
scientists
have
come
to
accept
the
positive
contribution of work to the individual's happiness and sense of personal achievement. Work is
more than a necessity for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their
identity and creativity.


Rather
than
a
punishment
or
a
burden,
work
is
the
opportunity
to
realize
one's
potential.
Many
psychiatrists
heading
mental
health
clinics
have
observed
its
healing
effect.
A
good
many
patients
who
feel
depressed
in
clinics
gain
renewed
self-confidence
when
gainfully
employed and lose some, if not all, of their most acute symptoms. Increasingly, institutions
dealing with mental health problems are establishing workshops wherein those too sick to get
a job in
those well enough to work outside.

And the reverse is true, too. For large numbers of people, the absence of work is harmful to
their
health.
Retirement
often
brings
many
problems
surrounding
the

do
I
do
with
myself?
question,
even
though
there
may
be
no
financial
cares.
Large
numbers
of
people
regularly get headaches and other illnesses on weekends when they don't have their jobs to
go to, and must fend for themselves. It has been observed that unemployment, quite aside
from
exerting
financial
pressures,
brings
enormous
psychological
troubles
and
that
many
individuals deteriorate rapidly when jobless.