Comments on: Do You Work to Live, Or Live to Work?

By: Annika

Annika — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:47:13 +0000

Sounds so familiar here..have good few friends from the States who say they do live to work!!! What happened all to the fun things in the life ;)

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:19:48 +0000

I’ve taken the few days off here and there to make for some long weekends, but I haven’t been on a proper vacation in 10 years. I feel the strain of it everyday, believe me. In fact, I’m now dealing with a case of pneumonia. My problem is I’m a bit of a work-a-holic, even when I try to take time to rest and relax, my brain is still worrying about the things I know I need to get done. The never-ending cycle of what it means to live to work. But, I’m trying to learn how to work to live…some habits just seem to die hard!

By: debtdieter

debtdieter — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:59:23 +0000

I’m amazed that you’ve not taken holidays for 10 years. Here in Australia your company in most cases will force you to take your holidays if you let them accrue more than 4-6 weeks (we get 4 weeks a year paid holidays here).

It’s bad for your health & wellbeing, & bad for the business’s bottom line to have too much leave just sitting there.

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By: K

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:49:53 +0000

This thought has been on my mind a LOT lately. I am a work to liver, but find the culture here makes it very difficult to live the way I would like. I’m working on ways to change that, but these things take time :)

If I have the resources and freedom to do whatever I wanted, I would garden and enjoy my yard more, then paint and create works of art. I would love to sell art, but am pretty darn happy with anything that meets my personal goals and expectations for a piece. I would also like to teach, perhaps ESL or Math. I would love to show people, especially kids, that math can be fun. I would take ballet or dance classes almost every day as well as yoga for fun. Finally, I would travel, especially in Western Europe, stick to the small towns, take lots of photographs (learn more about photography), and do some cross country skiing while practicing languages I’ve long forgotten.

By: Shannan

Shannan — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:36:32 +0000

If I had no bills to pay or responsibilities to tend to, I’d be traveling across the country and around the world, visiting and bringing assistance to kids who need it. I have a great passion for helping underprivileged children and the most fulfilling times of my life are when I am able to have face to face time with them and bring them some joy and help.

By: Mom @ Wide Open Wallet

Mom @ Wide Open Wallet — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:16:40 +0000

That is a really hard question. I already don’t work, so that’s easy, but if my husband didn’t have to work either… tough one. We would probably move out of state, we could come visit whenever we wanted after all. But after that… I don’t know. I would say travel but that is pretty hard to do with the kids in school. I’m sure we would travel as much as we could.