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I live to work: without work I'd not be content. I need it
I'm a mid way person. I know it's good and/or essential but can't decide
I work to live. I need to work to live, and that's why I do it. Period.
unfortunately I live to work, my work is boring but what can you do when you really need the money?
Have always been a work to live person, ever since I got my first paying job in early high school. If I won the lottery tomorrow I wouldn’t hesitate to quit my job and spend all my spare time doing things I actually enjoy. I voluntarily took 3 months off late last year to spend time with the family and enjoy the new house and loved every minute of it. Not once did I miss working. However, I did miss the income and eventually had to drag myself back into the boredom of a job. Aside from the money a job offers me absolutely nothing that I desire or can’t get elsewhere.
I live to learn, and I work to learn.
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Noxvayl (09-05-2012)
That is a commendable approachOriginally Posted by Steve
I find learning an integral part of living so don't separate the two, but that is just me.
I'm now retired (did so at 46), but I used to work to live. I did enjoy working, but now I'm retired I really don't know how I found the time !
Cheers, David
I'm suprised on this poll.... many many more people who work cos they have too and not through a love of it.
I work so that I can live, but I actually do enjoy my job. I know I only work in a call centre advising consumer law, and there are times when I hate the job. But in the main it can be a fun job, sometimes stressful, but it's full of variety. I don't know what legislation I'm going to need to call upon from one call to another.
That said there is life outside of work, and while my life in work is balanced out by the social side of it, it's good to take a time out and persue other interests outside of the work place.
Bit of both. I like doing my job - it's challenging enough that I don't think it'll ever get boring, but at the same time, if I don't work, we don't live so there is that aspect as well. If however, I suddenly landed on a pile of cash, I might think very hard about jacking it in and just riding my bike all day (although I'd probably end up at work anyway after a month or two)
I don't know why... The incentive structure of our society mirrors the poll results. You can't have a high portion of the population doing what they love when they have to make ends meet in order to survive.
but if it reflect's scoiety, then that means society must spend more of it's time unhappy at work, working to live, and not devoted to their job...... to a greater or lesser extent they must be less motivated. And if that's the case, it's possible we have a work force not entirely 100% giving it all during their working day.
which worries me a little.
Hey, it's just observations. But as the other poll showed a v high proportion who earned enough or more, so we have a lot of people being paid enough or more, but for things they do because they have too.
hey.. that could be flipped to showing how good we all are in adversity even when we hate jobs......
interesting one
I must admit to being a little surprised at your reaction. I thought this was common knowledge ?
I don't know anyone who does what they love, simply because it doesn't pay in 99% of cases. I suspect you have been a very lucky chap indeed in your career.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
If people loved their jobs as much as they do other things, we'd probably not have as much of an entertainment/leisure industry.
I would expect the vast, vast majority of people in full time employment (I specified full time as it east more finite time resource) - barring some outlandishly lucky individuals could think of better ways to spend their time.
Erm, surely that's 'work to live', not 'live to work'?unfortunately I live to work, my work is boring but what can you do when you really need the money?
I'm not surprised. I'd have bet that most people work because they have to, and that those that really enjoy what they do and make a living from it are the lucky ones, and the exception not the rule.
I work to live and until i find a job that a genuinely love and wake up everyday wanting to go there i will always feel the same.
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