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by aidenn0
1465 days ago
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> Seek counseling. You're making life decisions based on web boards. Somehow programming and your relationship with your spouse are tied up together.
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> You're riding really high now. You were really low before. Emotional roller coasters mean you should talk with someone, regardless of how you're feeling right now. Is it that hard to believe that changing what one spends over a third of their waking hours per week on can have a significant impact on one's emotional well being? |
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There's this strange "work-life balance" ethos, where the two have some sort of invisible barrier that holds them at diametric odds with one another. I'm still working out a theory, but I think it's a descendant of the Greatest Generation/Baby Boomer work values starting in the 1940s after practically every able-bodied young man became militarized.
Needless to say (or maybe needfully), it's tripe, as you've indicated. Work creates meaning in its own right, yes, but not if someone despises it, and a sense of duty alone will _not_ empower someone to sleep well at night.