This is a typical article that everyone here will feast on. Another of a long list of "the answer to your problems" to make people who are in a rut feel better about themselves.
For the last time "work" and the amount of work doesn't mean the same thing to everyone to begin with.
It depends on what you do, how much you like doing it, why you need to do it and a host of other pressures and things that you deal with every day.
I work everyday and enjoy what I do. Other people can't wait to get out at 5 and take the train home. (When I was in high school it was that way for me because of the type of jobs that I had when I wasn't doing my own thing which I typically did (side businesses)).
I have a shore place. I get bored on the beach. You know what I do? I get off the beach and go answer emails and "check in". I enjoy doing that better than sitting on the beach. I do the same when I am on vacation. Some people like what they do and it's not work. It's actually relaxing.
That said this idea that you need to find something that you enjoy to earn a living is not true either. Because sometimes you can't it's not that easy. I had to do many jobs that I didn't like to get to the point of doing a job that I do like and enjoy to do.
Yesterday I had to review a legal contract and truly despised doing so. So I'm glad I'm not an attorney because if I was the stress of that job would certainly make it hard for me to "work all the time". But if I have to I do that work and just make sure that I reward myself with doing things that I need to do that I enjoy (like writing a shell script..)
> I have a shore place. I get bored on the beach. You know what I do? I get off the beach and go answer emails and "check in". I enjoy doing that better than sitting on the beach. I do the same when I am on vacation. Some people like what they do and it's not work. It's actually relaxing.
That's lovely for you, but please understand that you are atypical as humans go. For most people, most of the time, work causes stress and stress reduces health/lifespan. Outliers are definitely worth considering, but they don't disprove the accuracy of the average data.
For the last time "work" and the amount of work doesn't mean the same thing to everyone to begin with.
It depends on what you do, how much you like doing it, why you need to do it and a host of other pressures and things that you deal with every day.
I work everyday and enjoy what I do. Other people can't wait to get out at 5 and take the train home. (When I was in high school it was that way for me because of the type of jobs that I had when I wasn't doing my own thing which I typically did (side businesses)).
I have a shore place. I get bored on the beach. You know what I do? I get off the beach and go answer emails and "check in". I enjoy doing that better than sitting on the beach. I do the same when I am on vacation. Some people like what they do and it's not work. It's actually relaxing.
That said this idea that you need to find something that you enjoy to earn a living is not true either. Because sometimes you can't it's not that easy. I had to do many jobs that I didn't like to get to the point of doing a job that I do like and enjoy to do.
Yesterday I had to review a legal contract and truly despised doing so. So I'm glad I'm not an attorney because if I was the stress of that job would certainly make it hard for me to "work all the time". But if I have to I do that work and just make sure that I reward myself with doing things that I need to do that I enjoy (like writing a shell script..)
Everyone is different.