[FairWitness]

"The latest medical research is saying that the quantity of the work you do is not a risk factor. They used to think that being a workaholic was unhealthy. But the important factor is if you like your work. It isn't doing a lot of work that's dangerous; it's doing a lot of work that you hate that's a risk factor."

I am currently "retired", at age 61. I worked at essentially the same job for 27 years, in pharmaceutical R&D. For about 25 years it was a great job, and who counted the hours? But for the last two years it was just a job, eight hours a day. The difference was in freedom and responsibility to make decisions that could mean the difference betwen success and failure in development of a product (first 25 years), versus going through a "box-checking" exercise to produce required data for regulatory submission (last 2 years). This difference was the result of a merger in which my part of the company was definitely not seen as "equal" by our larger "partner". I was very fortunate to come to a mutually agreeable ending with the company. My point is, while I was being paid very well for doing relatively easy work, I was not happy because it was not creative or challenging. Right now I am just enjoying the time off, but will be looking for something interesting to do in the near future. The above article kind of meanders around, but the part about it not being the amount of work, but whether you enjoyed it or not, that matters did speak to me.

[Lazamataz]

Interesting article ping.

[headsonpikes]

An unexpected perspective...thanks for posting. ;^)

[DJtex]

I like the part about "a great obligation to uplift."

My favorite prayer starts: I am here only to be truly helpful."

[Hillary's Folly]

I'm Doomed

[Pentagram]

Bump!

[1234]

bmp reminds me of one of my heroes: ECKHART TOLLE, author of "THE POWER OF NOW"; this book is the best i've read: powerful and peaceful.

[secretagent]

Reminds me of the profit volunteers get from their work.

Tradesmen will volunteer on Habitat for Humanity type projects for no pay, but they get in return the freedom to do something new, or something right.

[tamu]

have you or has anyone read 'the diamond cutter' by geshe michael roach? it's the same kind of thing stretched to 225 or so pages and details how an american (princeton grad w/honors) went to nepal/tibet (i forget) and then came back to the US and went to work in the diamond industry (at the urging of his lama). it talks about how he used buddhist beliefs to manage people and enhance the bottom line of the firm. cerebral folk, those buddhists.