week 14

All human beings’ needs someone they can be intimate with. It could be a friend boyfriend/girlfriend and family. In the text it says that each person is part of a social convoy. Social convoy is defined as a group of people who provide a protective layer of social relations to guide, encourage and socialize individuals as they go through life. In other words it is someone that is there for you as you grow.  I learned that as people get older, their social convoy functions as it did earlier in life. My social convoys are my family. No matter what I go through in life I know they will always be there for me. Another thing I found interesting was the effects of frequent change in jobs. In the text I found one particular study interesting, which is “People who frequently changed jobs by age 36 were three times more likely to have various health problems.” I thought this was amazing to learn because there are a large amount of people who change jobs constantly throughout the year. With the frequent change people are known to have some health problems. I would have never correlated the two.