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Word of the Day: Occupational hazard
There’s no such thing as the perfect job.
Every job has its occupational hazards.
I know, I shouldn’t be so negative.
I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but somebody has to tell you the truth, and it might as well be me as someone else.
No matter what your job is, there is some sort of danger associated with it.
You could be a librarian working in a library whose collection contains nothing but books about the benefits of sunshine, and it would still be dangerous.
Imagine there you are all day long, stuck in a dark library surrounded by nothing but books about sunshine.
It would drive me mad!
That could be the most depressing job in the world.
See, severe bouts of depression would be the occupational hazard in this case.
We often look back on our university days with fondness and a hint of nostalgia.
That’s nothing but bias and a lot of wishful thinking.
I remember my university days all too well.
I remember images of everyone staying up late at night writing papers only one person would ever read.
I also have memories of never having enough to eat and always having too much to drink.
Sleep deprivation, starvation and intoxication were all occupational hazards of being a student back in the day.
As far as I can tell, they still are.
So, there is no such thing as a ‘safe’ job.
Every one of them has an occupational hazard of some sort.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 69.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.