That sort of fits with both my and RogtamBar's points that you spend most of your time working if you include your own stuff but not so much on formal employment. Maybe what we need is for employment to be more fun rather than less of it.

Your experience makes sense. I've read articles analyzing happiness at work and there is a very strong correlation with job autonomy. (And that explains why executives often love work - studies find that executives control their time and choose their work. That is also why bosses are so often surprised when their subordinates aren't equally enthusiastic about the work they are assigned.) Really, it takes somebody very disconnected from the reality of working people to think that everyone wants to work at jobs as they are currently constructed in our society.