Students’ expectations about future jobs as a factor influencing their quality of life
Students’ expectations about future jobs as a factor influencing their quality of life

Summary/Abstract: Quality of life is a three-fold concept. Its two components – which are to a high degree independent one on another – are positive and negative effects. The third one is a perspective for future, that is, hopes and fears regarding future life. Among those, especially for young persons, that are to enter the job market, an important role is played by feelings connected with job and financial perspectives. The purpose of our research was to investigate the attitudes of students in Wroclaw. They were asked about the degree of being worried about job perspectives, with special regard to some particular aspects of the job market (e.g. kinds of contracts of employment). The results were examined in the context of social background of our respondents. It turned out that the level of fears among those potentially “well-situated (at the job market) persons” is very high, with significant differences between women and men. It is revealed that this high level of fear still holds despite the (common) expectation of better performance at job market as compared to the others.

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