A blog which I discovered through BlogExplosion, and which I now read regularly, is The Martian Anthropologist. Here’s an example of a recent article:
When is the last time you saw a bird slaving away for 50 hours a week? Has it ever occurred to you to ask why humans have to, but the other animals on this planet don’t have to?
There is a lie that most humans have bought into; that they must work constantly until they are too old to enjoy life, and only then can they stop working without guilt.
Working until you are 65 at a job you don’t particularly like, then retiring, is a lie. And it has been a lie for so long, people now think that there is no other way.
(full article here)
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Very interesting way of looking at work concept… I do believe that the majority really fits in this concept… nonetheless some don’t, and those count more… The truth is that most humans look at work ‘only’ as a duty and therefore absolutely impossible to give pleasure… what’s wrong here? Duty must not be equals to displeasure… there’s a Portuguese song that says: “work to gain for living… why must you spend living itself working to gain for living?” most people only think of it, if so, when there’s no life left to be lived…
I too enjoy reading the Martian, as I enjoy reading you.
Similar mindsets, I presume
What about the notion that you will spend more of your life in a place that you dislike, amongst people that you hate, than what you would in a place you like with people you love.
YOu spend 8,9,10 hours a day at work with colleagues that you cant stand then go home, spend 2 hours with your kids and 1 hour with your spouse before going to bed
There are many ways to escape.
The first step is to know that you trapped.