Part-time work social life

A very significant part of the work experience is the friendships that develop from close associations over long periods of time. These friendships become one of the major casualties of retirement. If you have social contact with colleagues outside the workplace, you can expect these friendships to continue. However, if you only see people at work, you can expect these relationships to end with your retirement. Single people who have not developed a social life beyond the workplace find this a particularly frightening prospect. 

For all of her working life, Tchaykovsky held a part-time position as School Medical Officer with the London County Council, refusing offers of a full-time position, as she contended it would interfere with her many social causes. During the First World War, she became active with the East London Federation of Suffragettes.14 Tchaykovsky was forced to retire from the position of School Medical Officer at the age of 65, but kept active with her voluntary work until her death in Watford on 4 February 1956, aged 80 years. 

Just finishing college exemplefies the ability to plan, organize, and set priorities, particularly if you were a student who successfully juggled schoolwork, part-time jobs, club activities, a healthy social life, and maybe even volunteer work. Try to think of specific examples that illustrate your abilities to manage many tasks at once. 

Trevor s over-identification with his work meant that a major part of his sense of significance and self-worth had become bound up in his job. He dedicated very little time to activities outside work and saw his personal and social status in terms of his job label. Clearly, he needed to develop other roles outside work and a sense of worth and identity in tasks totally unrelated to work. Trevor s self-defeating beliefs were that his self-worth was proportional to his achievements at work, that he only earned the right to be happy through hard work and that success at work was his only route to selfesteem. He had, as a result of these beliefs, become a slave to his work in order to feed his self-esteem, which had also had a negative impact on his relationships, social life and personal happiness. 

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