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Hardscrabble Jobs: Character Builders or Mental Health Risk Factors?
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Hardscrabble Jobs: Character Builders or Mental Health Risk Factors?

Early job experiences shape our current working lives
Bob Merberg
Sep 27, 2023
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A Surprise Appearance

A mistreated newsboy becomes a titan of industry. This episode reveals a unique connection between Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and working life, especially as it relates to the jobs we hold in our youth.

What seems like character-building experience to the beholder may be more like trauma to those in the path of that beholder’s unkindness.

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Heigh Ho — Work and Working Life
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