The times they are a-changin’.
This post seems to be older than 6 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.
0But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
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been thinking a lot about this lately…how much is enough…what are we willing to give up to enjoy life and people more…good to be thinking about this while you are young 🙂
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Beth Olsen: What are your thoughts on work? I’ve been seriously contemplating dropping to 32.5 hours/week, which is technically still full time.
Hi Andrew, I don’t have it all sorted out, but I do know that my job was taking most of my energy and leaving me little energy for friends or family or just enjoying life. I am a hard worker, and hopefully a smart worker, so I’m all in when I’m on the clock…but there is just more to life than work, even if it’s a “calling” of some kind. We are still called to be in relationship with others, to relate with neighbors, to take time to enjoy all that we encounter daily, and if we are ragged from work, I think we are not really our whole selves. I think we have to consider if our life style is driving us to earn enough to sustain it, and if life style is really that important in the long run…just some thoughts of late….:)
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