America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking

Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by abruzzi on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:58PM (#34601966)

I tried having jobs that I was interested in when I was young, but making it my job made me hate it. So I've spent the last 20 years working in IT because I dislike computers, and always have, except a few years when I was 13-15. There is no loss if working makes me hate something I already dislike--but if it was something I love, and work made me hate it, then it would be tragic.

The point (for me) is its the moment you make it a job, it becomes drudgery. so the "job" part is what I would need to avoid.

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by _aavaa_ on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:09PM (#34602148)

A) Have you ever read the E-Myth revisited. In it, deeeeeeeep inside the BS, there is a valuable point about not mistaking the fact of being good at doing a thing with being good at running a business that does that same thing.

B) My point was that it wasn't really work, hence the quotes. The leisure/aristocracy of the past did need to turn it into work. They simply did it because they liked it.

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