i seem to be working all the time. i work full time as a customer associate. and it just seems when i wake up, i go to work, and when i come home, its dinner and then bed. apart from my two days off a week (which seem to go extremely quick) my life revolves around work!
2007-12-30 21:05:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
thats life my sweet..x
2007-12-30 21:07:25 · answer #1 · answered by x Stacey x 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, I am always working!
2007-12-31 11:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by Debs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking for someone to spend time with... it will makes your life more meaningful.
2007-12-31 10:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by Yangla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeap, your state of mind to contently accept that kind of life. that, that kind of life, is really what life is all about..
2007-12-31 09:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you make it. If what you are doing is taking more of your time than you like, you have the freedom to get a new job.
Remember, there are trade offs. Can you find a job that pays you the same to work less hours an is less demanding? You have a lifestyle you've built for yourself. Can you scale it back, work less hours, make less money, and still be happy?
Whne I was in college, I had classes from 7am to 2pm straight through, then I had a 2 hour window to get home, get homework done, and get to my job from 4pm to 10pm. This was during the week. On the weekends, I'd work Saturday and Sunday 8 hours each. I did this for 3 years straight. I had to to be able to pay for my classes, rent, food, clothes.
Was it worth it? Yes. I have a degree and am working the the field I love for the last 10 years and I'm damn good at it.
I actually work less hard, make more money and have a great family to enjoy life with.
If you don't like the situation you are in, figure out what you have to do to change it, develop a plan to got to your goal and work the plan.
More times than not, if you are truly committed, you'll succeed.
2007-12-31 08:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by gryphon1911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think: Hobby! Life's too short to work it away.
2007-12-31 07:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by LadyBug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Work is a means to an end. At times we all must play the 'beast-of-burden'. I've meet all too many idealist who advocate the 'will to serve'; but i've found this all to often leads to enslavement. Personally, I 'will self', & serve goals, that when achieved, free me from servitude. If you can make sense of that.
2007-12-31 06:30:27 · answer #7 · answered by insignificant_other 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends how you define work. a lot of philosophers, from kant to heidegger and hegel and and marx, and other writers like kafka have explored the sense of alienation felt by the modern worker.
if you consider your job the only work you do, and don't gain any satisfaction from your job, then you have a serious problem.
but in a broader sense, work could mean any of the work we do, from the roles we perform at our jobs to the most mundane tasks, such as breathing, or making a sandwich, all of which require some effort or work. in this sense work may be all there is to life, but it is also all that can be worthwhile in life. work is how we as humans interact with the world around us and define ourselves.
work then, ends up being the most important thing in life in every sense, but a job that leads to a sense of alienation or lost freedom can be a real problem. work is supposed to make us feel more free. this alienation comes from a few things, first a feeling of being denied free persuit of our own projects, and another from being constantly reminded of our finite nature and our difference from everything that is not us.
the feeling of being constrained by ones job to the point where one is no longer free to pursue their own projects is an important feeling to heed if present. the ability to pursue projects of our choosing is a uniquely human attribute, and, arguably, identical to humanity. a loss of our freedom to pursue projects leads to a loss of our very humanity.
it is then important then to interact with the world around us in a way in which we feel our work is our own. if your job does not supply you with this, either find another, or cultivate other interests, such as the arts, that will allow you to feel fully free and to understand the context in which you exist- gaining a better sense of self and satisfaction with life.
so to answer your main question:
no. sort of.
2007-12-31 06:09:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is more to life than work…there is joy and appreciation, sunny and rainy days, friends and loved ones, expectations along with choices and deeds, places to be and new faces to see…oh yes…there so much more to life other than work…
2007-12-31 05:36:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am retired. There is way more to life than work. Now I have a successful home based business. And I'm a writer
2007-12-31 05:36:10 · answer #10 · answered by angels_angelsarehere 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different ways- how people view their life. Life is our duty to live. If you take your work as a duty then you are no longer working. But never compromise with your health because without one self the whole world means nothing.So, whatever you do, eat healthy and think healthy because body and mind are no different -they are same.
2007-12-31 05:28:48 · answer #11 · answered by Nash R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋