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17 seriously disturbing facts about your job
The average American spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime.

And 80% of US workers are outright dissatisfied with their jobs.

Source: Deloitte’s Shift Index survey
One University of North Carolina study showed that half of marriages in the US with a workaholic spouse end in divorce — compared to 16% of marriages without one.

A third of managers in the UK say they're losing their sense of humor because of work.

Source: Quality of Working Life report from Chartered Management Institute and Workplace Health Connect
And nearly 60% say their jobs are making them insomniacs.

Source: Quality of Working Life report from Chartered Management Institute and Workplace Health Connect
And a quarter of Americans say work is their No. 1 source of stress.

In the US, stress from work is estimated to be the fifth-biggest cause of death.

Source: The Baltimore Sun
In Japan, hundreds of Japanese workers die every year from "karoshi," or death by overwork. That might involve suicide or simply dropping dead at their desks.

Source: Associated Press
Women earn 80% of what men are paid in the US, and that gender wage gap isn't on track to close until 2119.

Source: AAUW
The wage gap even more pronounced for women of color. Hispanic women were paid 54% and black women were paid 63% of what white men were paid in 2016.

Source: AAUW
Nearly half of America has gained weight at their current job; 26% have gained more than 10 pounds, 11% have gained more than 20.

Source: CareerBuilder
Americans used 17 vacation days on average last year, less than the average of 20 vacation days they used in the 1980s and 1990s.

Source: Project Time Off
And the majority of Americans don't even use all of their vacation days; there were 705 million unused days off last year nationwide.

Source: Project Time Off
That might not be changing for the better anytime soon, as 40% of millennials say they "feel guilty" for using all of their vacation days.

Source: Randstad
And even when employees do go on vacation, 42% of them say they feel the pressure to check in with their offices while they're gone.

Source: Randstad
Alyson Shontell contributed to a previous version of this post.
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