taking holidays

[EternalOptimist]

I personally am fked. I just done 10.5 months without a proper break.

Sure the family have all had holidays, but I have to organise them, ship everyone out, look after them , ship em back. I am more knackered afterwards than before.

A proper break is me just festering, swigging beer and playing games, with no earache.

[Charles Foster Kane]

I personally am fked. I just done 10.5 months without a proper break.

Sure the family have all had holidays, but I have to organise them, ship everyone out, look after them , ship em back. I am more knackered afterwards than before.

A proper break is me just festering, swigging beer and playing games, with no earache.

Works for me.

[Hiram King Of Tyre]

I work to live not live to work. Holidays I take just delay my retirement

[thunderlizard]

My line involves whacking great projects (1-3 years) with several-month breaks in between them. Make hay while the sun shines.

[kali]

Wow... an interesting, intelligent thread in General - are you guys feeling ok?

[contractor79]

I work to live not live to work. Holidays I take just delay my retirement

nice attitude

[thunderlizard]

Work to live, not live to work

I really really hate that attitude!

It says "I was not put on this planet to make an effort and achieve something. I was put here to do the bare minimum to make my own life hassle-free".

It's not far from "why work, when I can claim income support?"

[chris79]

Works for me.

Judging from posts in another thread here you either a) need a holiday, b) need to top your glass up more often, or c) tell porky pies.

[NickFitz]

I really really hate that attitude!

It says "I was not put on this planet to make an effort and achieve something. I was put here to do the bare minimum to make my own life hassle-free".

It's not far from "why work, when I can claim income support?"

How does slaving away to increase the profits of some capitalist oligarch constitute a better way of life than, say, working just as much as one needs to be able to relax and enjoy time with one's family?

You won't be able to enjoy your "quality time" in the cemetery you know.

[thunderlizard]

You won't be able to enjoy it but other people will. You can leave behind a charitable foundation, or the cure for cancer, or a business that will provide employment for people, or all sorts of things that mean your life has done some good.

Relaxation and your own enjoyment are a depressingly low ambition.