Chapter 46 the unluckiest and healthiest man

A female operator who encountered all kinds of blows in her life journey became the happiest person because she didn't have too much expectation for life. A medical school professor investigated the health of thousands of telephone operators in New York City.The life history of one of these operators may have made everyone frown: Her father was an alcoholic longshoreman, and her mother gave birth to her as a teenage girl.She grew up poor and her parents quarreled from time to time. Four of her nine siblings died young. When she was three years old, her father ran away from home. For eight years, she moved around in several orphanages.

At the age of thirteen, she was assigned to work as a maid, but she left after three years. In the following seven years, she changed many jobs and had some love affairs.At the age of twenty-three, she began to work as an operator for the telephone company. At the age of twenty-seven, she married a plumber. Her husband was a nervous and sick man who was often unable to work.They had no children, and when she was forty-four, her husband breathed his last in her arms. When she was interviewed by investigators, she had been a widow for ten years and had worked as an operator for thirty-one years.But this woman, who has encountered various blows in her life journey, is the healthiest, most stable, and most respected and loved by her colleagues among all the operators!

Objectively speaking, the job of operator is quite boring, but the health status of operator is closely related to their attitude or consciousness towards this job and life.The researchers found that the operators who often get sick are mostly from professional family backgrounds, have middle school or even university education, feel trapped in the quagmire of wrong occupations, and feel unhappy both at work and at home. The above-mentioned unluckiest but healthiest lady is because her past life made her not have too many expectations for life, but instead she is very satisfied with her current work and life.