Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time? Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker. Even though our incomes
are going down, Americans are spending
more time at work than ever before. In fact, U.S. workers spend
more time at work than anyone else in the world. But it was not always this way. Back in 1970, the average work week for an American worker was about
35 hours. Today, it is up to
46 hours. But there are other major economies around the globe that are doing just fine without burning their workers out. For example, the average American worker spends
378 more hours working per year than the average German worker does. Sadly, for many Americans work is not even finished once they leave the office. According to
one recent survey, the average American worker spends an extra seven hours per week on work tasks such as checking emails and answering phone calls after normal work hours have finished. Other Americans are juggling two or three jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Americans are busier than ever and work is often pushing the other areas of our lives on to the back burner. What this also means is that "family vacations" are becoming increasingly rare in the United States. In fact, Americans spend
less days on vacation than anyone else in the industrialized world. While some would applaud our "work ethic", the truth is that the fact that we are being overworked is having some very serious consequences. In fact, as you will see below, Americans are literally being worked to death.
The following is an excerpt from a comment that one reader posted on one of my recent articles. Can you identify with what this family is going through?....
Comment: In case you're lacking an idea of what is, and is about to befall the majority of us:
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