Do you work to live or live to work?

[dave50]

Life's too short, I work to live.

[factor-fiction]

That's easy for me to answer as I'm out of work again and no-one seems to want someone over 50

[albaqwerty]

Life's too short, talk fast.

No-one wants Mr Alba and I'm too old too. We exist.

[Prudie]

Sorry to hear that factor, hope you get a post soon. I think really I live to work, I've a horrible feeling if I didn't go to work I'd become a depressd couch potato.

[baza]

since retiring early due to health problems when I worked to live ( pay for holidays etc ), I now find that my life is rather busy with golf , shooting (clays) and club treasurer finding time to work would be difficult, not enough days in the week. My life is much more relaxed.

[andy-hughes]

Both.

I really enjoy my job, and have no mad wish to retire.

I love my home life, and my hobby of writing, so I am seriously blessed, and I do know it, and I am grateful every day.

[237SJ]

A bit of both. Work`s fun but I wouldn`t want to do it all the time or my life wouldn`t be my own. I now work 75% so I get a week off each month.

[tinkerbell23]

Id say work to live...

In saying that being unemployed has been one of the most depressing experiences of my life i never want to be in this position ever ever again i cant wait to start my job xx

[EDDIE51]

I used to live to work , 3 jobs most of my life. Now I am retired and I work part time for an agency (when there is any work available that is) so life come first.

[China Doll]

At the moment it feels like the latter... but generally it's definitely the former. We're just going through a busy spell.

[craft1948]

I don't miss the job I used to do as it was quite stressful. I do miss the people I worked with, even though they were mostly southerners.

[China Doll]

You know you love the southerner crafty, just admit it.... ;oP

Every time I answer a question about work lately it reminds me I need to start thinking about pension.... :-/

[LoftyLottie]

Best thing about work was the social scene and the colleagues - not the work itself. I wouldn't mind going back to work if I didn't actually have to do any work.

[dotty.]

i had to change jobs 3 years ago aged 54 due to redundency, found a job a month before the redundency came through, so did all my staff and one had just turned 60 and 2 others were in their 50s like me. we never really thought about how old we were, we just got another job.
I work to try and live, it's not like it was but i get by, love my days off though.

[ChuckFickens]

I live to learn my work, hopefully one day that will mean I can work to live.

[starone]

I like being retired. When I worked I liked payday which was once a month and I still like payday, which is still once a month, so not much changed there. I have had a couple of jobs which I really enjoyed but they didn't last, unfortunately.

[tamborine]

Without work I would stay in bed......and probaby die sooner. Its good to be needed.

[ELVIS68]

Although my job is cushy and well paid I work to live

[wolf63]

I retired at 40 from the civil service (health grounds) and I have to admit that I dreaded not having a job. It was the best thing that I could have done - the job was stressful and did not help my health at all.

I do some voluntary work for Oxfam and have made some good friends through this work. I have to admit that I have become more reclusive and avoid going anywhere unless I have to. Leaving town would be almost impossible for me to achieve - even for a day trip.

Work kept me going

[craft1948]

After leaving my stressful job I took on a post of company secretary on a part-time basis, and was bored stiff within 6 months. I must be difficult to please.

[China Doll]

I've never had a job that wasn't stressful. I think I must be either high maitnenance or a masochist. Or I just generate loads of work by telling other people to pull their finger out....