Can we work it out?

Is work good for you? It doesn't sound like it. An incredible 36 million working days were lost last year due to work-related ill health and injury - that's one and half days for every single worker - and 241 workers were killed at work.

Sounds like something to be avoided if possible. Yet, I remember interviewing railway worker Richard Clark after he'd won £2.3 million on the lottery. He took a two week holiday and then went back to work.

'I realised that I enjoyed my job. I've been working on the railways since I left school and it's in the blood.' Richard had also been made redundant earlier in his career and knew how lonely and depressing not working could be. 

Right now it's very early on Friday morning and I'm desperately trying to get my work on this section finished in time for Men's Health Week. Not healthy at all. But what makes me feel a little better is that I think whatever your job and whether you love it or hate it, there's something here for you.

Jim Pollard, editor, malehealth

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