It also depends upon whether the 'job' is repetitive or interesting, hard
physical or mild and also on age.

Sounds like a rehash (for more grant money) of studies done in the 1960's
!!!

n Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:41:02 GMT, "Motorcity" <kflynn3@cfl.rr.com> found
these unused words floating about:

<snip> I can say that this work ethic seems to be a

I think it's more the attitude than the hours. For the past 13 years, I have
been the network guru in a small manufacturing plant. It was nothing for me
to come in 1 or 2 Saturdays a month for 4 to 10 hours, and work long hours
during the week. I didn't mind (even though I am paid salary) because it was
part of the job, that's what I needed to do to make changes or repairs to
the network, and frankly, I loved what I was doing. Then, when the
manufacturing sector crashed around 9-11, there were a number of lay-offs,
and jobs were consolidated. Not only was my job the network, but now I had
to unload trucks, pull parts for assembly jobs, put other parts away, and
other (to me) BS jobs that we could have kept one person to do. My attitude
went down the tubes, along with network consistency and other things (hard
for one person to do 2-1/2 jobs). It's not that I minded the physical labor-
I worked my way up from machinist (5 years) to NC programmer (2 years) to
network administrator. It was just that after business picked back up, there
was no one hired back in my department, and we were expected to work
overtime to cover what needed to be done. I use any excuse I can to not work
over 40 now. My boss doesn't have to tell me my attitude sucks- I told her
that. I hate my job now, and have been actively seeking employment
elsewhere. But jobs are scarce around here, or the pay is no where near what
I'm making now. I'm 59 now, so I might just tough it out for 3 or 4 more
years and draw Social Security, unless they do me a favor and fire me first.
Sorry for the rant, just the way I feel.

SC Tom