8 hours a day, five days a week of your life...

[tastebud]

i had it cut recently!

 

[subversplat]

Arbeit macht frei!

 

[kalidarkone]

You've completely missed the point. The point is that in a society with vast amounts of excess wealth (such as ours) there ought to be far more of a choice than there is regarding how much you work.

In poorer countries people have no choice because of necessity, in this country we have no (or little) choice because the whole system is geared towards pointless and neverending economic growth that produces huge amounts of shit we don't need. I wouldn't resent having to work lots out of necessity - I do resent having to work lots in order to play along with society's addiction to consuming.

I think there is a choice, I have certainly been aware that there has been or maybe that is exclusive in my type of work?-voluntary sector liberal kinda work (actually the org I work for is frighteningly corporate as far as I am concerned but I guess that is nothing compared to the private sector!)

I decided to work 2 and a half a days a week in 1999 mostly due to being a single parent and wanting more time with the boy but also cos I found working full time soul destroying, luckily in my kind of work it is quite easy to negotiate job share and that kind of thing-its seen as good practice.