Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living?

[Honeycombe8]

152. Your email perfectly describes work.

Those fisherman, I expect, enjoy their fishing, and are excellent at doing it. That is their work. That is their life.

If the OP wants to live that life, he certainly can. But that life won't pay for a computer, a DSL connection, a TV, and other things. To live the lifestyle that internet bloggers want to live, we have to work, if we're in the 99%.

If the OP owned his own business, he'd work at least twice the number of hours he's working now. Yet, many people own their own businesses because they want the "freedom" to work for themselves. So to them, the hours being worked don't mean they don't have freedom.

If the OP is young, he has an opportunity to work toward what he wants to do with his life. Ah, youth. I am in my late 50's. I don't have those options any longer, really. Well, I have SOME options...but not for getting paid by someone else in a new career.

Working at something you're good at, that you basically enjoy, that is appreciated, is a pleasure in life, to me. I guess it depends on your point of view. Glass is half full, or half empty.