Jobs are weird. The whole having a job that you got to do thing, weird.

All right, so you have 24 hours in a day. Allow eight of them for sleep, please. And then you have

16. Now take eight of those, half of those, half your waking life, and spend those hours

laboring, doing a relatively narrow set of tasks, at least compared to all the things that are possible to do

in the world. Often, you're doing this work to make money for someone else, and then they give

you back some of it, and then you repeat those tasks, do that most days of the week, do that for

decades late in life, if you're lucky, you get to stop with

the laboring. It's bizarre when you think about it. Maybe you shouldn't think about it. I don't know.

This is the place where we sometimes think about stuff like that. It's depression mode. I'm John

Moe. I'm glad you're here. And if you're listening at work, that's okay. It's okay with me anyway.

But given how much of your life is spent at work, it makes a huge, huge difference how

healthy that workplace is from a mental health standpoint, whether it's in an office, a restaurant,

a factory, whatever, or if you work at home,

how healthy the setup of your job is. That matters a lot. If it's oppressive, toxic,

lifeless, if there's bullying, or if management is complacent, man, it can just suck real bad. It can exacerbate mental health problems you already have,

and it can help create new ones. On the other hand, if it's healthy and positive where you work,

that's wonderful. Right now in America, there seem to be a lot of that first kind of workplaces, the sucky kind.

People are quitting because they just can't take it anymore.

Some companies are having a hard time recruiting.

Employee burnout is off the charts.

It's all very unhealthy.

And when things are unhealthy, sometimes that's when the surgeon general enters the picture.

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