Lousy jobs hurt your health by the time you're in your 40s
While job satisfaction had some impact on physical health, its effect was particularly strong for mental health, researchers found. Those less than happy with their work early in their careers said they were more depressed and worried and had more trouble sleeping. And the direction of your job satisfaction -- whether it is getting better or worse in your early career -- has an influence on your later health , the study showed. The good news is that people whose job satisfaction started low but got better over the course of their early career didn't have the health problems associated with consistently low or declining satisfaction. "We found that there is a cumulative effect of job satisfaction on health that appears as early as your 40s," said Jonathan Dirlam, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in sociology at The Ohio State University. Dirlam conducted the study with Hui Zheng, associate professor of sociology at Ohio State. They presented thei