In much the same way that half the country is suddenly allergic to wheat, everyone who spends their life slumped in front of a computer reckons they've developed repetitive strain injuries (RS I.
Life slumps out of shape without the necessary joy of The Big Shop to hold it all together.
What to do when you've hit that mid-life slump, and your career as a 20m album-selling superstar isn't pushing the right buttons any more?
According to researchers, humans seem to find greatest happiness early in adulthood and then again late in life, beyond 50 and 60. Between those bookends looms a mid-life slump when we feel least happy with our situation.
Kassy is a Professional Life and Career Empowerment Coach, for her own company Authentically Awakened Coaching, specializing in helping women reclaim their soul from a crappy job, catapult their way out of a quarter-life slump, and strut their stuff as the confident radiant person they truly are (talk about having a total girl crush on yourself!).
I had hit a rut -- that "quarter life crisis" slump, which is apparently a thing.
On mornings such as these, there inevitably arrives that moment when you can choose to embark upon a salubrious new life or slump into the filthy patterns of the past.
BORN in the trough of the Great Depression, Edmund Phelps, a professor at Columbia University who this week won the Nobel prize for economics, has spent much of his intellectual life studying slumps of a different kind.
Spain's self-styled "Edad de Oro" of sport had never looked so golden and had never seemed such a blessed contrast to the morosity permeating too much of wider Spanish life: the slumping economy, the 20 percent unemployment rate, the sense of diminished clout and prospects.
The fluid-retaining abilities of UHPCs are sensitive to the water-to-powder ratio, while the further addition of SP will not enhance the slump life after excessing the saturation dosage.
