1. How Do You Like Your Job? 25% 18% 11% 19% 27%
Close your text books and try to guess the following:
% of Canadians polled that said Job stress negatively affects family/personal life
25%
18%
% who said their job was ‘a dead-end’
11%
% who said their job was extremely boring
19%
% who said they were concerned about losing their job
27%
% who said their job was just a way to make money
Source: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance (YLC-CURA), 2001

2. How Important Is Earning A lot of Money to you?
‘Survey Said!’:
Source: Niagara Youth Lifestyle Choices – Community University Research Alliance, 2001 (YLC-CURA)

3. Definitions – Then and Now
Job --
Something unseemly, or demeaning, e.g. dirty work, underpaid work, criminal work
‘A piece of work done for hire or profit.’ Can still have negative connotations e.g. ‘just a job.’
Career
‘Rapid and unrestrained activity’. ? ?
Profession
A public declaration of beliefs ?
Vocation
A ‘calling’

4. What do you think?
Recall (from 7.1) that Economists refer to 4 epochs in economic history:
Hunting and Gathering
The Agricultural Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Information Revolution
Q: Which do you think is the better era to live in? Why?
Q: Would someone from another era (I.e. the Hunting and Gathering era) agree with you? Why or why not?
Q: Would there be any advantages to living in a Hunter-Gatherer society?