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"work is good for you. It expands your universe and gives you a life beyond the realms of the little box we're otherwise born with"

That's the sad truth for many people. I mean most people even find their love interests at work.

I was unemployed for about 1 1/2 years now and I didn't miss work for a second.

I coded what I wanted, I learned music instruments, I did sports, had much time for friends and slept till noon. After half a year I couldn't even imagine a life with a job anymore. I had so much todo even without a job.



I've only been a full time employee for a short period of time and I see exactly where you are coming from. It's not even that I don't like my job, just that there are so many things that I'd like to be doing instead. When there are days with awesome weather I feel like I'm wasting them by staying cooped up in an office all day.


Nobody said work is life.

I'm able to do amazing things with my life now, because I worked hard. Work is only a part of the picture - but its an important part, and if you try to occlude it from life, you will eventually get bit. The default state of the Universe involves entropy; working, on anything, is the only way to change that.


You're right. It just triggers my bite-reflex if people talk about how good work is for your life...

I often have the feeling for many people work IS life and often not a good one :\




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