Do we work to live or do we live to work?

For me, I work to live. I have to work to be able to provide the basic needs of my family like food, a decent home, clothes, education, and medicine. I know working is important but I always see to it that I balance everything. It is hard sometimes since there are times that work demands a lot of time and sometimes it becomes stressful. But I was able to solve this problem, I used to work full time so I decide to work part-time and earn some online. This suits me best because I was able to be there for my children and husband. I also try to budget our money and see to it that we spend most of our money for our needs and not our wants. I think time management is very important so that a person will not be enslave and feel that he lives only to work. If this happens, that can be pitiful situation. Moreover, I enjoy my job teaching students and sharing my knowledge and skills to them. This way, I don't feel tired and I am more inspired and my job is not really a job for me because I find it interesting and fun.

Both , if you dont work , you become weird because your mind is just not working o u really need work for mental health and work to live :) for money. So i will keep working hard every day of my life and learning things

Hi Deodavid, I tried Thinking about this but was a little confused!!! I think they both are mutually exclusive. Regards, Narthan

That question is rather quite the puzzler. I think that it is something that can tip right back and forth in both direction. There are going to be times where we are forced right into a position where we have to work to survive. So we are going to have to work to live and obviously it might not be something that we are going to be fond of. Then really, there are a lot of times where people are rather passionate about their work. Perhaps a bit too passionate about their work if you really want my honest opinion about the situation. There are going to be times where they are going to live to work. It is really not healthy either direction when it is taken to a certain extreme.

No, it is not that the real answer is not a straight one. In my view, the straight answer is work to live and never the other way round. People who may be working as if the live to work are not doing so not because they love to do but they feel compelled to do so. It is unfortunate for every single individual who is so forced to be living to work. It can be quite disastrous in the end. Proper work-life balance is the key to a happy, healthy life of longevity.

Well,the answer of this question certainly varies on different people.But in my opinion,there are many kinds of meaningful things for us to do besides work,such as travelling,playing,reading and so on.And in many cases our work just provides us with the necessary money.So work is only part of our life,and we work to live.However,if someone likes his work very much,he can say that he is born for his work,and the work is his life,so there comes "we live to work".

Hi there Deodavid, Well, I do like my job. As far as jobs go, I'm lucky in that I have a great boss and the job itself is pretty stress-free. Still, it isn't my life by any stretch of the imagination. I probably fall somewhere in the middle of both of the extremes. I actually work to live but I think if I suddenly came into money and didn't have to...I still would work. I'd probably work less but I would have to work just for what it does for my spirit.

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Well i think it is a mixture of both work to live and living for work. Getting a job working and earning money for your family is the primary aspect of the family, whereas some work because they enjoy the working life they have. I can give a example of my dad. My dad loves working and is very conservative of talking holidays. All he wants is work, work and work. Whereas i have a friend of mine who doesn't like working but works for the sake of his girlfriend and his family. The concept of working all depends on person to person, honestly speaking about me i like working but only if the kind of work iam enrolled in. So concluding on the topic i would tell that the preferences depends from person to person when it comes to work.

For me, I work because I want to support my family. I don't let my job control me. I understand why some people focus on work too much. It's because they want to forget their personal problems by working most of the time and they need it to get through the day without having to think of anything else.

Many people often understand this hypothesis. I live to work rather than work to live. Humans need to live and to live we must work. An incorrect understanding of these questions determine which direction your life. Here, especially my friends, many of them have a principle is to work to live, so when they get their money, they will spend all the money at that time and they do not think about tomorrow. So people like these will not grow and thrive. People who have such principles will forever be a slave to work. I think I live to work rather than work for a living.

I love these kind of questions. Another rendition is Do you eat to live or do you live to eat. Our trainer from India once jokingly said that in Australia (where she is currently based) they are fond of saying "you hardly work" whenever someone says Are you working hard?

whatever the answers might be, there is no such thing that anyone will have to die because he loses a particular job. It is a massive blow to lose a job you love, but it is not a lose-it-then-I-must-die stuff. If bank ABC fires me, I will try to get work in bank DEF or bank XYZ - no big deal. If no bank will take me, then I can work as a cook ( I know how to cook and I cook well!). But I am going to miss the time when I was working in bank ABC because I was in charged of an important department and I got very high satisfaction in what I had achieved. But, they don't want me anymore. They fired me for being too aggressive in criticizing the new company policies. I had to because I cared so much about the company. But it is all gone now and I am a happy cook in a small restaurant specializes in seafood. It seemed that I was a live-to-work person. But eventually, it is obvious that I am a work-to-live, like everyone who work. Focusing too much on work to the extend of neglecting your family or loved ones is a personal behavior. It is bad and thoughtless. It is a choice. But it is not something irreversible.

I dont no wats happening nowadays.Most of us are living to work.Everyone wants to become an ATM.No one including me is satisfied with wat one has.We all want money...money and only money.For which we are struggling hard,working whole day long,spoiling our healths,deteriorating our lives.Though i want to enjoy i couldn't, bcoz of my work pressure and requirement of funds.Till now i was LIVing TO WORK though i want to WORK TO LIVE :(

Personally I think overall hand in hand we have to work in order to live. We just need to remember that over doing it, and never having time to STOP and enjoy life, or spend time with our family and friends is not the way to do things for sure. I know many times I have so much going on to where then something happens and I have to STOP and take a step back and reevaluate everything. But for me, I also have to focus on no matter what is going on to remember to Pray and Trust god for everything and in time it will all be OK.

I think its both because without our jobs, we have no way of surviving. In my case, I love my job and without it, I would feel lost. I look forward to going into work every day.So in answer to your question, personally I live to work.

Hello, I work to live. I don't live to work. I live to serve my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and share his love and the Good News of His love with others.

for me, work for live. if i live for work, i will always working and never rest.

Now, I work for survive and struggling to alive. Very hard to earn money, I don't have good carrier as marketer, and insurance agent. I'm doing online now...trying lucky on internet...keep my mind to survive.

I'm very fortunate in this way. I used to work waaaay too much, and it got to be too much. So I filed for disability... and I got it! So now I don't have to work too much at all. I have lots of time for my family & am sooo much happier now. I'm really glad that you posted this discussion... because I would say to anyone who would qualify for disability, if you can get it, go for it. It makes life so much easier & so much more worthwhile. :)