"work to live" vs "live to work"
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Re: "work to live" vs "live to work"
You have gone and replaced work with more work. I was thinking more along the lines of reading books and eating cake!
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Re: "work to live" vs "live to work"
If it was able to be done on my terms, it wouldn't be work. The only time something vocational like music becomes 'work' is when someone else sticks their neb in and makes it about them.
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Re: "work to live" vs "live to work"
But if you didn't have to work you wouldn't spend that time doing the same thing every day, you would be free to pursue whatever you wanted to.
I am sure there are some people who are genuinely happy to go to work every day and love what they do, I just haven't ever met a single one!
I am sure there are some people who are genuinely happy to go to work every day and love what they do, I just haven't ever met a single one!
Some of these people, after 10 years or so (often less), can resign for the rest of the lives, and still have more money than the rest of us, but often they carry on...that's the difference between a job and a career - I'm even sure that their lives have ups and downs like everyone else, but generally they are happy with what they do. Money aside, there's music and art which some people do for free. I've been to many bars in London/Bristol with live music where the musicians are not getting paid any money.
I think the key is in your first paragraph: "...you would be free to pursue whatever you wanted to".......what if you're already doing what you wanted to?
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Re: "work to live" vs "live to work"
It's too windy now..