Tackle work stress, ease depression

Tackle work stress, ease depression :

"'Participants will learn a variety of strategies they can choose from to create their own repertoire of coping skills that will work for them in all areas of life,' Prof Shochet said.

'This involves good stress management techniques, including physical exercises, relaxation techniques, humour and drawing on social support.'"

Pardon me from being a cynic but I don't actually want to learn skills how to effectively deal with more crap. For many of us, as I blogged earlier, the work place is no longer about the work we chose. It's about paper. It's about clerical and clerical assistant work because the advent of technology has turned us all into glorified secretaries and clerks. Everything has to be documented and filed. Working with people and having a job is no longer what we have. We all do more than one job when we are at work and we are all required to mulitask and much of it is trivial because it's computer driven. Proper jobs is what we want. A reasonable workload. The rest then falls into place...because we have all become part of a bureaucratic system. The assumption is always that there is something wrong with us. It is the system. People are pretty clued up and clued in these days and that's the pity of it. People with good brains and skills are doing humdrum , repetitious taks and are constantly involved in excess process. Busy work. "Productivity". People need to document exactly what a "job" entails and I think the data from this will be interesting. My doctor doesn't just doctor. he has to operate his computer, fill in forms, document treatments, attend professional development sessions...Let's get some real job descriptions.