Your comments are treating work as some sort of dichotomy. It doesn't exist. There are several reasons to want full-time employment:
- Purpose (do something good in the world)
- Mental challenge
- Physical challenge
- Meet people
- Earn money
- Daily routine
- etc.
Full-time employment is a popular way to get these desires satisfied, but it's far from the only way.
For example, if I would take a sabbatical right now, earning money or meeting people would not be an immediate problem. However, I would miss the mental challenge and doing something good for the world. So I'd likely take up open source contribution. I'd probably do quite a lot of it -- several hours per day. Is it work? No, I don't think people would call it that. Does it do for me many of the things work does for me? Yeah.
Sorry you're right, by "working" I meant "working for The Man" :-). I just spent my Sunday afternoon working on writing jokes for my standup comedy routine, The Man wasn't involved in that work at all. Pay's a lot less than fixing broken websites though ;-)
- Purpose (do something good in the world)
- Mental challenge
- Physical challenge
- Meet people
- Earn money
- Daily routine
- etc.
Full-time employment is a popular way to get these desires satisfied, but it's far from the only way.
For example, if I would take a sabbatical right now, earning money or meeting people would not be an immediate problem. However, I would miss the mental challenge and doing something good for the world. So I'd likely take up open source contribution. I'd probably do quite a lot of it -- several hours per day. Is it work? No, I don't think people would call it that. Does it do for me many of the things work does for me? Yeah.