Working for a Living

more meaningful things come thru the email-box:

We were meant to work for a living...not a life. Yet, billions of us spend more than a third of each day, in places we don't want to be, doing work we don't want to do.

In the name of a "fast-track corporate career" or some such thing, we spend most of our lives buried in work...the kind we don't even enjoy...earning more money than we can spend...and still wanting more !! Many spend their whole lives chasing a dream that's not really their own, all the while, harbouring desires to do something entirely different. ....

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i especially like the bit from Thoreau who said most people "lead lives of quiet desperation"

... unfulfilled, unhappy and uncertain of what to do. Yet the lure of financial security and the fear of the unknown keep them from acting to change their lives, and their best energies are spend creating justifications for staying where they are or inventing activities outside of work that they hope will provide them with a sense of meaning. But these efforts can never be totally successful. We are what we do, and the more we do it, the more we become it. The only way out is to change our lives or to change our expectations for our lives. And if we lower our expectations we are killing our dreams, and a man without dreams is already half dead.

i can fully understand how hard it is to break out of a comfort zone.. i guess i wouldn't have changed jobs too if i wasn't literally "pushed out"... quiet desperation.. how apt..