[buffington]

> life is hard. You have to go to work to make money

That's certainly one approach towards living life.

Another might be:

Don't accept it when your employer decides to start tracking your every move and work for a company that values outcomes more than they do asses-in-chairs. When the eventual recession comes, the odds that it'll disrupt you in any significant way will be greatly reduced because you haven't spent the last three years worried about how to present yourself as "productive", and instead have been focused on actually getting things done.

[illumin8]

You can try that approach if you like. Good luck to you!