luckystar112
Ideal_Rock
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The blackberry thread had me wondering.
How much time per day/week do you spend working? Do you take work home with you? I think a lot of workaholics look at everyone else like they are lazy. And a lot of people who have priorities outside of work look at workaholics like they're trying to escape a boring life.
I'm a total work-to-liver. The thought spending over 40 hours a week doing something I'm not passionate about makes me sick to my stomach. Right now I work four hours a day, Mon-Fri, but only go into the office on Mon/Wed/Fri. I hate those twelve hours a week in the office and couldn't imagine spending 9 hours per day in there! But it is very easy to do my job from home, so I always feel that it is pointless for me to be there (basically just do it so they know I'm alive).
I definitely don't feel that I am lazy. Okay, maybe over the summer...but at that point I feel like I've earned it. The rest of the year I have a full course load on top of my job and I fight for personal time. School takes priority over work right now, and I definitely intend to put family first once I have one (which will hopefully mean that I'll be working a job that isn't so time-consuming).
My DH works from 7am until about 8pm six days a week. He isn't a workaholic, but he sure spends enough of his life there (what I call a live-to-worker, since that's all he does)! I get so TICKED when his boss calls him on his day off. It also sucks that we can never take any weekend trips to get out of our house every once in a while.
I don't think I would take a job where I had to get my unpaid vacations approved or if I was expected to work while ON vacation (it would depend on the job, of course). I basically just could never work a job where that job was expected to be my whole life (crazy hours, little to no time off, forced to take work home, etc.!).
How much time per day/week do you spend working? Do you take work home with you? I think a lot of workaholics look at everyone else like they are lazy. And a lot of people who have priorities outside of work look at workaholics like they're trying to escape a boring life.
I'm a total work-to-liver. The thought spending over 40 hours a week doing something I'm not passionate about makes me sick to my stomach. Right now I work four hours a day, Mon-Fri, but only go into the office on Mon/Wed/Fri. I hate those twelve hours a week in the office and couldn't imagine spending 9 hours per day in there! But it is very easy to do my job from home, so I always feel that it is pointless for me to be there (basically just do it so they know I'm alive).
I definitely don't feel that I am lazy. Okay, maybe over the summer...but at that point I feel like I've earned it. The rest of the year I have a full course load on top of my job and I fight for personal time. School takes priority over work right now, and I definitely intend to put family first once I have one (which will hopefully mean that I'll be working a job that isn't so time-consuming).
My DH works from 7am until about 8pm six days a week. He isn't a workaholic, but he sure spends enough of his life there (what I call a live-to-worker, since that's all he does)! I get so TICKED when his boss calls him on his day off. It also sucks that we can never take any weekend trips to get out of our house every once in a while.
I don't think I would take a job where I had to get my unpaid vacations approved or if I was expected to work while ON vacation (it would depend on the job, of course). I basically just could never work a job where that job was expected to be my whole life (crazy hours, little to no time off, forced to take work home, etc.!).