| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%E2%80%93life_balance What does work-life balance mean to you? Do you find the distinction between work life and the rest of life useful? If you have a job, is it a big part of your identity or something you'd rather not think about outside of work? Do you feel that you bring your "true self" to work? Would you rather work more or less than you currently do? Is work interfering with other aspects of your life? Do you prefer a hard clock out, or are you okay with doing some work outside of regular working hours? Does your job/boss/schedule respect your rest-of-life priorities? Overall, do you think people work too much or not enough? |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| I think if you separate yourself too much from your work, you'll always be unhappy. Work is your duty, it's the reason you force yourself to get out of bed. Like it or not, it's really the thing that should be giving meaning to your life. A lot of people think that their meaning lies elsewhere. In a hobby, in their free time. I really don't think so. Work is what you should do, and you should devote yourself enough to it to do it well, and reap the rewarding feeling of having done what needs to be done. I don't particularly enjoy my job, but it's gotten a lot better ever since I got it out of my head that it's just a filler between sleeping and my "true self". My true self is the entire 24 hours. Work included. |
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Onii-chan said: Separate your work with your life. You won't think about your job in the middle of vacation, will you? Absolutely I think about it. I work in accounting. I trust everyone under me to be able to do their job, but it will still be in the back of my head constantly everything I need to clean up when I get back. |
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Onii-chan said: I work in Tax office, my job is related with documents about how much the penalty has to be paid and it is very thick (the archieves are sent to other sections). If I don't separate my job and my life and think about those documents. Well, I can count how many years I will resign from this job due to work stress. I'm not the only one at least. It's almost refreshing to know somebody else makes small talk day-to-day and then goes to watch anime like me. :O |
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| Just make a gaming channel on youtube and start making your money. Surpass PewDiePie. |
| ~ Nas, The "OG Bulgarian"~ Formerly known as: ~ Gokuvich, The "OG Bulgarian"~  |
crypticecliptic said: It's a fair point that having a positive attitude towards work will generally make you happier. At the same time, some jobs are just shittier than others, in terms of the work itself and the working conditions. It's easier to take pride in a job that involves significant skill and creativity (making art, drafting legal defences, performing surgery) than a job that is routine and tedious (cashing people out, stocking shelves). Similarly, some jobs have great working conditions (good pay and benefits, desirable schedule, reasonable colleagues) and others have awful schedules. I think if you separate yourself too much from your work, you'll always be unhappy. Work is your duty, it's the reason you force yourself to get out of bed. Like it or not, it's really the thing that should be giving meaning to your life. A lot of people think that their meaning lies elsewhere. In a hobby, in their free time. I really don't think so. Work is what you should do, and you should devote yourself enough to it to do it well, and reap the rewarding feeling of having done what needs to be done. I don't particularly enjoy my job, but it's gotten a lot better ever since I got it out of my head that it's just a filler between sleeping and my "true self". My true self is the entire 24 hours. Work included. It would be ideal if everyone who wanted to work could find a loveable, meaningful job, but unfortunately I can't see that happening anytime soon. So I strongly disagree that work should be the primary (let alone only!) source of meaning in people's lives. There's so much more — relationships, hobbies/interests, caring for others, volunteering, passion projects. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
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