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How to manage expectations when your dream job loses its luster Lisa Cohen and Sandra E. SpataroMay 23, 2021, 11:56 IST Employers can help alleviate employee frustration by allowing them to tweak their job description and create new opportunities.shutterstock Many people often have high expectations of what their dream job will be like. But there are often mundane aspects of the job that can turn off unsuspecting hopefuls. Employers can create a better job experience by creating more collaborative job descriptions. What happens when you land your dream job but it turns out to be anything but? Friends, career consultants and the media inundate us with a constant barrage of advice telling us to follow our dreams, find our bliss or pursue our passions in our professional lives. Yet this kind of advice is not always easily followed. ....
Sean Gallup / Staff / Getty Images Current isolation policies will negatively impact young children s immune systems ability to self-regulate. When people are less exposed to the natural environment, there s potential for an increase in allergic diseases. Children in lockdown for over a year now are at risk for developing allergies, asthma, and autoimmune issues. Eat dirt! is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T. Weiss, and it captured my attention while I was learning about an immunological concept known as the hygiene hypothesis. The core of the idea is that we live in a microbial world: an environment full of bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. And that our interactions with these microbes after birth are extremely important to educate our immune systems to function properly. When we are born, our immune systems are sti ....