The Work / Life balance ?

[FMJ]

we were designed to work and if we work, then it must be to our advantage as anything else will be slavery to another.

I don't think you quite get the concept of slavery. Being compensated for one's expertise and/or time and being able to negotiate said compensation is NOT slavery. By calling work slavery you are trivializing people who are/were slaves.

 

[IDB1]

Often it is the poorer or less skilled a person is, the more their work life balance is tipped in the favour of work..

Sorry . . . no. Just . . . . no.

I worked in an office with hundreds of people who, due to a sense of responsibility to the job they were employed to do, sacrificed most of their home/social life for most of the year.

Very few I would consider of a low skillset (the job required otherwise) and, 10 years ago, the least paid in there would have been on £30k+

They were not the exception either.

 

[IDB1]

I have had my time of easy, and I tell you doing nothing is not fab, the mind soon runs out of ideas to keep one occupied, so I have come to the conclusion, we were designed to work and if we work, then it must be to our advantage as anything else will be slavery to another.

The conclusion you should have come to is that you were designed to work.

Since you are not what would generally be considered the norm, any conclusions would probably be best applied singly rather than to the whole race.

 

[REKIBorter]

Having spent Thursday and Friday in our local hospital was finally discharged. Don't like hospitals, they are full of ill people. Had every test imaginable, pints of blood taken, x-rays, ECG's, MRI's etc etc. The Dr putting a canular in my arm was obviously a butcher by profession.

Their conclusion is that I am stressed out. Has caused raised blood pressure, dizziness and shortness of breath. Have a week off work to try to chill out but taking it easy it not easy when you have an 8 year old autistic kid with muscular problems.

Need to re-address things me think.

 

[Emoco]

I find from experience and people around me (friends/old work colleagues), if you're working silly hours and hate it, you've usually put yourself in that position with a mortgage you couldn't afford, kids you probably shouldn't have had and a wife that wants more than you can pay for.

I work some silly hours being self employed but I love what I do and due to the amount of work I get (that pays well) I have sometimes weeks with no work to do what I want. I recharge my batteries and and live within my means so I can live a healthy balanced life.

Spent a few years in offices and saw the same thing all around me. People with average wages, spending money they don't have on suits, cars, mortgage, getting the kitchen redone, eating shit food for snacks and lunch everyday and wondering why they feel tired.

 

[Neil G]

I find from experience and people around me (friends/old work colleagues), if you're working silly hours and hate it, you've usually put yourself in that position with a mortgage you couldn't afford, kids you probably shouldn't have had and a wife that wants more than you can pay for.

I work some silly hours being self employed but I love what I do and due to the amount of work I get (that pays well) I have sometimes weeks with no work to do what I want. I recharge my batteries and and live within my means so I can live a healthy balanced life.

Spent a few years in offices and saw the same thing all around me. People with average wages, spending money they don't have on suits, cars, mortgage, getting the kitchen redone, eating shit food for snacks and lunch everyday and wondering why they feel tired.

Totally agree, offices are full of turds moaning about being skint and having a miserable life but it's more than often been through their choice to have kids and max out credit cards etc.

I can say I am of the poor/lower scale now basically living to eat and go out now and again but it's made me no more interested in giving up extra time for work.