Recently the EU decided to question our decision to work up to 78 hours a week; and a good thing too! A lot of people try to tell me that if you don’t work long and hard you don’t deserve to maintain your current position. I don’t subscribe to this in any way. Quality, as always is more important than quantity. I’ve met people who work 2 or so jobs in an attempt to pay bills. I personally just think in most cases it’s a question of greed, not hard work. A good programmer spends 5% of his working day coding. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but don’t you want your new Windows installation to work properly or not? If you keep working as fast as you can in your job, your bosses will decide you can handle what they are giving you; then it will never let up.
Why do we actually work though? Isn’t it for a family, home, a life?
If you work 70 hours a week (for instance) you can scarcely say you have any kind of personality. It is a shame they hide behind a facade of being a hard worker, thinking that it is good to care for nothing but money.
Now i’m not saying money is unimportant. I would prefer if we didn’t have to do with it at all; but sadly right now it isn’t going anywhere. Some people say that it is their choice to work as long as they are, forgetting that when they end up ill it becomes a drain on the NHS, damaging our economy further. People married to their jobs end up unhappy and divorced in the end, married multiple times sometimes. I’ve seen it happen, don’t let it happen to you.
Other countries use these working ours, some of their economies are stronger than ours; their people are often healthier and, even have a higher average standard of living.
What kind of reflection does that make on us as a country on the whole? Personally it makes us look like fools, taken advantage of by our own country. They offer us poor services whilst they line their coffers with the gold from our every health crippling effort.
Oh dear.
