We do live in a society where we are constantly bombarded to do more, learn more, be better. The cost of this though is a reduction in family time, personal time and just me time. In many organizations, in order to retain your position you have to continuously improve your skill set, there is no room anymore for just getting a job, working a 9 - 5, going home to be happy and to see your family and then retiring with a solid retirement after.

Its just a constant hamster wheel where we are desperate just to survive. Every year benefits cost more and provide for less. Every dollar you earn buys a little bit less. Houses cost a little bit more. Economically every 10 years now there is a massive event that spurs massive layoffs where everyone that was just doing their job is let go and only the elite remain. Those that are let go are forced to step down the totem pole and take jobs that provide a salary that leads to a reduction in security.

Life now seems to just be about work and work just seems to be about squeezing every hour and dollar out of you until someone younger and hungrier comes along to take your place and be bled by the system. I don't think that this is the way its supposed to be.