Data Entry Syndrome

I’ve got sore finger tips from typing. My eyes are red from staring into my computer monitor all day every day. My back aches because my chair is not quite up to scratch when it comes to occupational health and safety requirements. These are all symptoms of Data Entry Syndrome. I think I feel more wrecked at the end of the day now then when I drove forklifts for a living back in Sydney. I seriously need to make some changes around my home office if I want to succeed in my own home based data entry enterprise.

Working from home has allowed me to take certain shortcuts when it comes to occupational health and safety issues. I’m inflicting the sort of horror on myself that I would not tolerate working for an employer. If I had to sit on this hard wooden chair and crane my neck up to look at the screen in a conventional office work environment, I’d be complaining to my superiors and demanding changes be made immediately. Unfortunately, being my own boss may not have the best effect on my health at the end of the day. It just goes to show how dangerous a job in data entry can be!