There are people who live in order to work and others, a happier bunch in my opinion, who choose to work in order to be able to live. I see people who have a successful career, manager position and start working at 9 am, end the day at 3 am.Maybe you think the weekends are the days when the respective persons have a break. Wrong. They work also in the weekends. Therefore, they own a nice house, nice car, top brand notebook, smart phone and best clothes money can buy. They live with their mother and dog. Correct, no spouse, children in the picture, even if 35-40 years have passed since these people saw the daylight the first time.
I wonder if happiness can be achieved in such a way or at least if I am protected from such an empty life. I could never be contempt with such a lifestyle, I would feel very alone, I wouldn't find any reason to work and to live for.What do you think? Which is the way to live a normal life with sufficient funds and joy?
Tags: Lifestyle, Career
7 comments:
Well, I guess it depends on the respective person, and also efficiency. I also know people that work a lot, whose spouse also works a lot, but still find time to share and later on will have a nice family and everything. There are also people for whom these things don't really matter, as there also are women who only want to enjoy motherhood, and not marriage. I think it's a question of choices.
In my case, I don't mind having a full day, leaving the house before 7 and getting back after 9 in the evening. But I would also want to come home to someone, to have the weekends free to enjoy and a well deserved long, lazy yearly vacation to travel...
Some people use work to hide from everything else, and that is simply sad...
I will mind the schedule you presented if I do not have an outstanding income and I see the life going by in a fast rythm. Without any intervention on my side except weekends when I need to clean, cook, so on and everntually read a book and meet my friends.
Well, working so hard does imply, in my mind at least, a substantial income, one that allows me to forget about the cooking and cleaning! I would definitely pay someone to do that! Otherwise I would have really miserable weekends!
I know, this was and still is my 'dream' since childhood :) and this is why I haven't done my household chores.
I consider myself a recovering workaholic. I'm not sure exactly how I got into the trap of working long hours, even weekends. But in the long run, it was no fun, especially since I have a family. That said, I am still trying achieve balance in life, but I think I'm finally getting there.
Great topic!
I agree to forget about the society rules but in reality it's not as simple as that. We all need money, social status. When we discover that life is much more than this, it may be a bit late but not impossible to change the situation. What I wanted to explain in this article is that we should all find a balance in our lives, sometimes just say NO to our tasks that are assigned by everybody. We can explain with reasonable motives or lies, it doesn't actually matter sometimes, this depends on the person. But the main idea is that NO is a very good answer sometimes.
MULHER ELEGANTE
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