Although most people love to work, because of the benefits, stability, and peace of mind that comes with being able to support their family, if given the opportunity, people would like to work less. Why is this? Well, there are two major reasons that are involved with a desire for a reduction in work, at the same pay or higher. The first is that based on the objective conditions of work. It is true that since time immemorial those who paid another person’s wages were not particularly concerned with the well-being of their employees. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

It takes extraordinary inner resources to achieve flow while daggering a mile below ground in a South African mine, cutting sugarcane on a sweltering plantation, or working with two compression fractures of the spine, and a moderate bulging disk in your lower back and bad knees from a “tennis” accident. And to deal with an office full of vengeful employees, looking for revenge against you because you simply have more talent and are better looking. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

Even in our enlightened days, with all the emphasis on “human resources,” management is all too often disinterested   in how employees experience work. Therefore, it is not surprising that many workers assume that they cannot count on work to provide the intrinsic rewards in their lives, and that have to wait until they are out of the factory or office before they can begin to have a good time—even though this turns out not to be true, in many cases. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

The second reason is complementary to the first one, but is based less on contemporary reality, and more on the historical disrepute of work, which is still transmitted by the culture and learned by each of us as we grow up. There is no question that during the Industrial Revolution of two and a half centuries ago factory workers had to labour under inhuman conditions.  Free time was so rare that it became one of the most precious commodities. Workers assumed that if they only had more time, they would automatically be happier. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

The trade unions fought heroically to shorten the work week, and their success is one of the bright accomplishments in the history of humankind. Unfortunately, while free time might be a necessary condition for happiness, by itself it is not a sufficient guarantee it. The work-sin ethic is the attitude that if you work you are usually good (moral), and if you do not work you are bad (lazy, immoral). The idea is that is you are doing anything that can be considered productive, then you are worthwhile because you are too busy producing something to engage in deviant behavior. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

Learning how to use time beneficially turns out to be more difficult than expected. Nor does it seem that more free time is necessarily better; as true of so many things, what enriches life in small quantities might impoverish it in larger doses. This is why mid-century psychiatrists and sociologists were putting up warning signals to the effect that too much free time was threatening to become a social disaster. However, some people work and still find the time sin like Satan at work. And some people who do not work find productive ways to keep themselves happy, so it depends on the mentality of the person, not necessarily their lifestyle. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

For some people work is enjoyable because they have the opportunity to do what they have dreamed about since they were kids. Their job may not always be easy, but yet they still enjoy it. When approaches without too many cultural prejudices and with a determination to shape it so as to make it personally meaningful, even the most mundane job can enhance the quality of life, rather than detract from it. And regardless of if you are working in your dream job or not please be thankful. Some people require more money to live, but are unable to work due to injuries, and they spent all of their lives preparing to go to work.  And it is sad that people would cause other people physical and emotional pain just for fun and pretend like they did nothing wrong. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7