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Living for the Weekend?
Since there should be more to life than that, there are numerous reasons why you might hate your job.
I love the weekend. For the most part, everyone is off work and I get to see my friends at social events and activities.
Everybody needs time off from work. Getting away from the job is a healthy thing. Nobody can, nor should, work all the time.
But what if, as Sunday draws to a close, you find the dread creeping in? Monday is coming, and that means returning to work.
For too many people that means five days of discomfort, stress, deadlines, and other unpleasant and negative things. Work is the place you go so that you have the money to pay for food, shelter, clothing, and any and all necessities. If you didn’t need the money and/or benefits, you wouldn’t put in 35–60 hours a week there.
Humankind has evolved from hunter-gatherers to agrarians, then an industrial society, and now to a less-well defined society, commonly referred to as post-industrial or information society.
As an agrarian and then industrial society, people still performed tasks that included a lot of physical labor. This allowed humankind to be more creative in multiple ways. As more and more cultures gave way from monarchy to either democracy, socialism, or communism, people previously with little to no…
