You and your job -- is IT killing you?

Tony Austin
Thursday, 27 November 2008 12:28

Opinion and Analysis

Is your sedentary job in the IT industry, or spending too much time in front of your PC at home, making you ill or even leading you to an early grave?

I was updating my web site today, in the section where I've assembled tons and tons of useful resource links, and added a new resource entry related to the health effects of working in the IT industry.

It suddenly occurred to me that I really should share some of those resource links with you, dear iTWire readers.

My web site has grown like topsy since I first began building it around the turn of the century.

I plan to completely refresh the site's design next year, but for the moment you'll find all the health and medical resource links on a single "Sciences and Health" page.

How is your IT (or other similar sedentary job) affecting your eyes, posture, back, arms/elbows/wrists/fingers, your heart, your gut, your legs, whatever? And as you've gotten older, how has any of these deteriorated?

Visit either here or the backup site here which will take you straight to the IT-related health issues resource links section.

You might like to bookmark that page. You'll probably find other sections of that page pretty interesting and useful too.

There are links for first aid, stings and bites, poisoning, suicide and depression, kids and parents, and much more.

When am I going to die? Find out by visiting the "Death Clock" if you dare!

Feeling a bit old, like I do sometimes. There's a section on ageing and ageism.

Want to know more about the brain (and the mind), including comas and acquired brain injuries? There's a big collection of resource links about them, which I built up not only for the inherent interest but also as a consequence of one of my sons (when he was an eight-year-old, a few decades ago) acquiring a brain injury in a motor accident.

Then there's stuff about travellers' medical advice, cancer, dyslexia, stuttering an stammering, Cloning, bioethics, psychology and psychiatry, and even more.

Am I crazy in writing articles for iTWire? Am I crazy all the time? Maybe the answer can be found via one of the links on that page!

Once again, go either here or here.