Be Happy At Work

Exercise the profession of their choice but in poor conditions is another reason for dissatisfaction. Françoise, 39, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital: "We are asked to improve the relationship with the patient, to be more profitable in the care, and we suppress our positions. The contradiction is untenable. "The situations that generate internal conflicts are many: failing to balance work and private life (women know how this exercise is difficult), be facing a dilemma between its mission and values ​​... Georges, 62 former human resources manager in a telecommunications company, has been forced to make redundancies he disapproved. "I have lost sleep," he says.

"What pleases us, at the end of a working day, it is to be able to bring about an improvement in someone's life, says Alain de Botton. It is not necessarily great changes. Oil a hinge, help find lost baggage can be very rewarding ... Industrialisation made it more abstract sense of purpose. Unlike artisans of the past, who knew their customers, workers biscuits factories, for example, have lost the benefit of those who enjoy knowing of their production ... "

"When the work loses its sense of ethics, moral, logical, we silence our sensitivity, but the malaise is affecting our private lives and our health," warns Philippe Davezies, researcher and lecturer in medicine and occupational health at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon. "Where absenteeism, resulting in depression, says Marie-Hélène Brousse. Especially if something in the execution of our work, conflicts with a requirement deeply embedded in our education "as being forced to take the time, do not be too fussed on quality, while the we grew up in the valuation of work well done.