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Do you Live to Work or Work to Live?

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Anyone that knows me personally will also know that money plays a big role on my immediate family. Both my Father and my brother have kind of an obsession with income, profits, assets, liabilities and of course Doo-dads. I subscribe to a different school of thought where I see money as just energy or effort. If a friend spent 30min helping me to fix my car; in theory I should spend at least 30 min helping him with his computer or something along those lines. We have exchanged effort and energy in equal amounts.

Now my friend my not need anything that I can provide for that 30 min, so I would give him something worth 30 min of my time. If I give him a 6-pack of beer, he can only use that item for what it is. If I were to give him cash, he could exchange that for anything he really needs. And this is the same principle “work” was founded with; an employer gives the people who provide effort & energy to the company money so that they can go out and buy what they need. We are paid for this reason and not because we are doing something we don’t enjoy.

Trent Hamm over at The Simple Dollar has written a very good article on the connection between money, time and happiness. Two lines that really stood out to me were:

…”What has been forgotten, though, is that you’re spending your day in misery just so you can ride in a luxury car during the commute.”

“You arrive home to a gorgeous home in the suburbs, but you’re too exhausted to enjoy it.”…

Thanks to James for pointing out this excellent article. When you have a few min spare, have a read and think about why you go to work and how you spend your energy.