| | Feels that the years have started to dawn on me and
that i'm not that young and carefree anymore. However, there is still
the oddity that at the age of 23 my parents still need to wake me up in
the morning so that i can go take a shower and groom myself to a
socially acceptable standard. Perhaps today was a reminder that though
i'm 1/4 through my life i'm still no where ready to face the real world
and assume the responsability that age imparts to all of us. Or perhaps
it was the fact that it was 11am and i was still in bed that my mom
felt the need to wake me and tell me to get my ass out the door.....
Recently picked up the book "Blood Sweat & Tears: The Evolution of
Work" by Richard Donkin. It was assigned as a reading for my
International Busing class back when i was in Undergrad doing my Minor
in Management and thought it'd read it again cause it was pretty
interesting. As humans advance technologically work has become more
ingrained into our lives then all previous centuries. Wheras in the
past people would go to work and then leave that work for the refuge of
home we now take that work home with us. Technology has made it
possible to simply never stop working. The 9-to-5 that defines a normal
workday has stretched into our homes and commutes with the advent of
wireless technologies and communication devices. The average worker
over the past 20yrs till 1992 has increased their work hours by the
equivilant of 1 month/year.
"it is as if the world has become split into two societies - one with
the means to enjoy leisure (activities) but not the time, and one that
has the time but not the means" -
describes the mass of people
who work so much that they have the money to take vacations but
not the time because they work so much, and those who have the time but
don't make enough to enjoy a vacation. So, Why do you work? Money to
survive would be the main answer... but then, why do continue to work
even once we've made enough to survive? This generation has seen more
disposable income then probably all previous generations combined. A
13yr old in today's society probably has the same buying power as a
25yr old of a previous generation. With so much disposable income, so
much available resources, why does personal debt still continue
to rise? Has work become something more then a means of survival?
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