Question about work and home life?

[bleedingheart]

Do you think it is healthy for someone who has a very stressful job to come home and talk about that job for hours on end?

I understand the need to share...

But I think that it is actually compounding the problem for the person I know..who has this problem


I personally think it is better to decompress...take a deep breath....and separate work from home.

[bigwillq]

1. I feel it's good to vent

but the venting should only last for so long.

If this person is going on for hours on end, then maybe it's time this person makes a career change.

[Dora]

2. Obsessing is not healthy.

I would encourage your someone to talk about their feelings about work, but spend less time dwelling on the minutae of hesaidshesaidthenthishappenedandthenane-mailwentaround... Validate their feelings, if you can. Don't offer any criticism of the situation of your own - you'll simply be adding fuel to the fire.

Then encourage a picnic dinner in the park. Or a movie. Or ____, anything to create a diversion.

It's important to allow our minds to move beyond the 40 hours a week we're already renting them out to The Man.

[tigereye]

I think folks go through phases with this

and I agree with poster above who implies it may be a sign of a need for a change.

Hey BH! :hi:

[bleedingheart]

8. howdy Tigereye!

in this case the person loves the job but the stresses of the job are relived at home....and it makes the home stressful...

[tigereye]

3. I think folks go through phases with this

and I agree with poster above who implies it may be a sign of a need for a change.

Hey BH! :hi:

oops, double post!

[Bunny]

4. Yeah, I think talking about it for hours on end is unhealthy for

that person, and those around him/her.

[mac56]

5. Sometimes you gotta vent.

So you can put that part of the day behind you, and shift gears. Make that separation of which you speak.

[skygazer]

6. It's not healthy to bottle it up either

Sounds like someone who needs to think about changing careers. Unless they're like that about everything.

[Redstone]

7. Even though my office is in my house, I leave work THERE when I'm done for the day.

I've always been able to do that, maybe because when I was a kid, my old man would bend my mother's ears for HOURS, bitching about his job, EVERY NIGHT.

Redstone