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Life Skills and Quality of Work Life · Part 5

Chapter 1: WORK, LIVELIHOOD AND CAREER · HOME SCIENCE

calmly, rather than react with justifications and emotional outbursts. If the reprimand is deserved, one should take corrective measures, including apologising, if necessary. Flexibility, adaptability and problem-solving attitude and skills are core abilities essential in the work arena, whether you are self-employed or working for others. Be a good citizen and create a healthy community around you.

People who follow these tips tend to attract like-minded persons. Together, they can often create a community of like-minded folks who strive to get the job done while serving everybody’s needs. For job satisfaction, be a good citizen within your organisation, recognise others for their achievements and work in collaboration with others to effect responsible change. Learn from the lessons of life .

Job satisfaction is all about taking those day-to-day challenges, pressures and upsetting situations and turning them into life lessons that allow you to grow and move on as a better, more fulfilled person and professional. This balance between life and work is not easy to achieve but the ability to positively adapt to societal and environmental change is essential. In any occupation, core abilities/essential workplace skills are the basic requirements. They cannot be taught as ‘academic lessons’ in schools or colleges, but they are vital to enable persons to become competent, and have to be acquired and honed as one develops as a person.

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