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How come people want to work? (literature.cafe)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Important distinction between "working" and "having a job". You do a job for someone else. You should always be working for yourself. Labor for ones own ends in enjoyable. Labor for someone else is a means to an end. Recognize it is something to balance and balance it the best you can for the life you want to have.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    This should be higher up.

    I think a lot of younger people today struggle to figure out what is important for them to balance and this creates a problem where they just jump from one short term gain to another until they die and if they recognize this pattern without knowing what's happening they just feel hopeless and don't want to change it or themselves and then struggle to be a functioning adult.

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