How much should we work?

As much as anybody wants to. I could do with a 20 hour job a week though. Wish it was.. all the great things I could do in that time..

 

Ideally I would work 0 hours a day, and spend my free time exploring my various interests and organizing beneficial activities for the community. I think the day when we no longer have to work what are now considered conventional jobs and spend our time improving ourselves and having a good time is the day we begin making great strides towards world peace.

One reason we have wars is because of money and the way people are dehumanized and forced to work 40 hours a week or more doing things they don't want to, for it. I honestly don't get much pride from being a working man. I would leave it all in an instant the moment I can begin to support myself with my art, or fall in love with a girl who can help support me.

I am lazy and damn proud of it. Always was, and I hope I always will be. Lazy when it comes to meaningless work for a paycheck that is. When it comes to loving and trying to understand, I put in the time.

 

Haha, same here, but also because that's what I like to do/am pretty good at. I'm not proud of my laziness, it keeps me from studying (a thing I really do want to complete succesfully). I also wouldn't like to take advantage of the system I despise but also (have to) use. So I better find a way to repay the things I take from it, otherwise I feel guilty.
I agree with the most of your post though!

 

Who WANTS to work??

 

'Depends on why you work, and what you do. Ideally, you do what you love, something that makes you inspired and empowered, where you have the freedom to be yourself and do your thing, exercise your creativity and individuality, you look forward to it every day, and you get paid enough to live the kind of life style you want. Then it's not really work at all, more like a labor of love, so the question no longer becomes relevant.

 

I don't need as much. I have lived large, I live smaller now. The toys I do have are quite nice, though used. My simple savings account is quite nice too, and mostly unused.

 

Awesome.

 

I agree modern management's techniques for assessing the value of one's time are flawed, particularly in intellectual professions like science and engineering, in which productivity does not necessarily directly correlate with the amount of time one spends at work. This is particularly true in larger corporations, where the bean counters have no clue what the engineers are doing, yet somehow they are the ones empowered to determine policy.

 

I'd like to work 50 hours or more....

 

I put 40 to 50. I'm a bit of a workaholic. I only work part time, but I take as many hours as I can get, sneak overtime, etc. I want to work more (and get paid more) so I'm in the market for a second job. People keep telling me it's going to suck, but if I'm not working I'm stuck in the house. I'd rather work work work. Give me more more more!

 

Thats actually good.
Like my grandma says : Work hasnt killed anyone yet.

 

It's cool if your working for yourself, if you get to experience the fruits of your labor. Like mowing your lawn, if you get to enjoy a good BBQ later or something...

It sucks to have to be in a position to work for da man for $7.00 an hour though, and to have to survive on that shit...

I really envy those entrepenuers who work for themselves.

 

"Lazy" is a subjective term. Inactivity isn't necessarily laziness, if it's productive, yet the illusion of productivity as being busy-ness (AKA business) is flawed. What we contribute doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a job, it's the good we do for ourselves and others that counts.

 

I make $6.35... I've worked at this job for two years and I've yet to equal what I was making at the job I had before this one. $6.50. I wish I made $7 an hour. Oh and to top it off, two of the new kids we hired are making $6 and they haven't even been there 2 months yet. I'd like very much to beat the crap out of whoever's responsible for that.

 

0.

 

I say 20-30, just right.

 

workers of the world, relax

[bob black]

 

I work about 25 hours per week. I also am a massage therapist, giving a few per month. As a dance instructor there aren't any 40 hour options for me. When i move out I plan to also work part time as a massage therapist in a spa or something. I Think 40 hours per week is an ok number. I know that when I get married or move in with my "soul mate" I don't want for him to be a workaholic! I don't want for him to be a bum either, but .....yeah.

 

Work is a funny thing. Like, you have to work often to be able to afford nice clothes, OR you can work hardly at all and use the time you save to make nice clothes. It all depends on what you want. I currently work 8 hours a day 3 days a week, and I hate it. I would much rather learn to live in a way in which I won't have to work but maybe one day a week for 8 hours.

The definition of work is loosely defined, though. You could work three hours and buy a nice shirt, or you could work on making a shirt for five hours. It all depends on how and where you like spending your time, I guess.

 

I really respect and agree with your outlook. I still live at home but my goal once i move out is to live as simply as possible. I wish I could make my own clothes as a creative outlet. I've been trying to find someone to teach me to really sew well, grow my own food..... I do however enjoy my nice car so that's my materialistic downfall.