Do you feel that work is overtaking your life?

When we were children, we spend most of our days in school. Then we grew into adults and now we spend most of our days working.

What is wrong with society?
Yet they encourage us to live. Am I the only one thinking something is wrong here?

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

I started to think that about school and work before me when I was in Year 11.
In the end I had to find work that meant something to me - because it is so much of our life.

Casheyane · 31-35, F

@Abstraction When did you stop? How much promotion is enough? It's like chasing something that only gets higher. You start to want more and more. You fight tooth and nail to get there. You work hard. But then you end up drained at some point. So you need to decide if recharge would have to do or maybe a hundred eighty degrees change.

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@Casheyane I work in overseas aid. I don't aim for promotion because I find organisational politics and people with MBAs completely boring. I focus on influencing real change in people's lives in communities. That really matters. So... I love what I do.
But unlike many colleagues, I don't work weekends (unless I'm travelling). I'm not a slave to my phone. I don't check emails when I'm on holiday. It's just work. I have other things in my life. I have family, hobbies and things.