Work more than 40 hours a week? You’re 6 times more likely to ‘burn out’ than those who work fewer than 35.
New research from the Aragon Institute of Health Sciences in Spain shows that long hours increases the risk of “burnout syndrome”: long-term exhaustion, a loss of interest in your work, and high levels of irritability. Read more…
posted 30/06/2011
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” If you ever answered ‘astronaut’, you probably didn’t get a very encouraging reply. But a career in space, or at least space technology, is perhaps not quite as far out of reach for today’s graduates.
As reported in the Guardian recently, the 2010/2011 Jobfile handbook, published by VT Lifeskills, lists ‘astronaut’ as a possible career option for the first time. There’s certainly plenty of competition: the European Space Agency recruited 6 astronauts last year, including British helicopter pilot Timothy Peake, from a field of 8,400. Read more…
posted 20/04/2010
subscribe