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Do you live to work or work to live?

Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: Xylitol
Originally posted by: tfinch2
Right now I work to live, but hopefully it will be the other way around soon.
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You hope for that? 😕
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same..tfinch2 get a 😕 from me. but hey..it's a free country eh?
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I want to be doing something that I love to do. I'm going to spend most of the rest of my life working, might as well have fun doing it. That also doesn't mean work is going to rule my life.
 
For many years, I lived to work...6 and 7 days per week, 10, 12, even 16 hours per day...month after month, after year, chasing one big construction job after another, making $80K, $90K, even over $100K a couple of years...finally, I got so burned out, that I said NO MORE...and cut down to 50 hours per week...(not counting my 4+ hr daily commute) After a few months of enjoying weekends off, I got hurt at work, and have been off almost 2-1/2 yrs...fck all that living to work sh*t...enjoy life, it's too dammed short...
 
I work because I have to, if I had a choice I'd be sitting in a Lazyboy wearing underwear smoking pot, eating cheetos and watching movies and porn all day.
 
Originally posted by: Kilgor
I work because I have to, if I had a choice I'd be sitting in a Lazyboy wearing underwear smoking pot, eating cheetos and watching movies and porn all day.
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yumm cheetos ... i want some right now ...
 
Originally posted by: Kilgor
I work because I have to, if I had a choice I'd be sitting in a Lazyboy wearing underwear smoking pot, eating cheetos and watching movies and porn all day.
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Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
For many years, I lived to work...6 and 7 days per week, 10, 12, even 16 hours per day...month after month, after year, chasing one big construction job after another, making $80K, $90K, even over $100K a couple of years...finally, I got so burned out, that I said NO MORE...and cut down to 50 hours per week...(not counting my 4+ hr daily commute) After a few months of enjoying weekends off, I got hurt at work, and have been off almost 2-1/2 yrs...fck all that living to work sh*t...enjoy life, it's too dammed short...
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You sound like some of our Superintendents and/or Project Managers.

To answer the question in the OP...for me, it's a little bit of both.
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
For many years, I lived to work...6 and 7 days per week, 10, 12, even 16 hours per day...month after month, after year, chasing one big construction job after another, making $80K, $90K, even over $100K a couple of years...finally, I got so burned out, that I said NO MORE...and cut down to 50 hours per week...(not counting my 4+ hr daily commute) After a few months of enjoying weekends off, I got hurt at work, and have been off almost 2-1/2 yrs...fck all that living to work sh*t...enjoy life, it's too dammed short...
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Why would you willingly commute 4+ hours a day?
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
For many years, I lived to work...6 and 7 days per week, 10, 12, even 16 hours per day...month after month, after year, chasing one big construction job after another, making $80K, $90K, even over $100K a couple of years...finally, I got so burned out, that I said NO MORE...and cut down to 50 hours per week...(not counting my 4+ hr daily commute) After a few months of enjoying weekends off, I got hurt at work, and have been off almost 2-1/2 yrs...fck all that living to work sh*t...enjoy life, it's too dammed short...
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For the most part, that was me for almost 20 years.
One day I just said to h**l with it, went home and planned to stay ther and make my living on the farm.
After a few months, my current employer offered me this management job.
For the past 7 years, I am loving it. Back to living to work, but now, it's a pleasure.
(I'm a Project Manager for the best Construction Management firm in the world!)
 
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