I Am A Workaholic And I Love It!
I am a workaholic, and I love it.
When I go on a vacation, my cell phone and laptop are not far behind. In fact we’re heading out to LA in a few weeks, and I’ve requested a US roaming plan for my cell phone, along with a wireless modem card for my laptop. I’m prepared for everything! I’ll have full access to all systems at work, and plan on enjoying every minute of it.
Mind you, my family has other plans. I certainly won’t scuttle them, but I am ready!
For me an average work week is about 60 hours. Less than that, and I feel lost. My son tells me all the time “dad - can’t you stay home today?”. Honestly, as much as I enjoy doing nothing – I can’t do nothing for long. Mind you if I had a few million in the bank, I know I could find things to do – but until then, I love my job/work/career!
You’re probably thinking – this guy is nuts. Perhaps I am, but I find that work relieves my stress. By the time I get home, 8, 9 or 10 hours later – I’m ready to relax and not worry about work… unless of course my cell phone rings or signals an incoming message.
I work hard, but I like to relax harder. 
I was reading a local newspaper (via my BlackBerry, of course) and found this great article on what else? Workaholics. Here are a few snippets all copyright by The Vancouver Sun. At the end of the snippets and post is a link to the full article.
Enjoy!
The ups and downs of being a workaholic
Joel Yanofsky, For Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, April 04, 2009
Say what you will about compulsive overworkers, they’re self-motivated. And they’re not quitters. They’re also not especially popular these days. When did workaholic become a dirty word? I’m guessing when someone added the “aholic” part.
Of course, making light of this problem has always been a big part of the problem. When Toronto clinical psychologist Barbara Killinger started writing about workaholism almost 20 years ago, no one was taking the issue very seriously, a fact reflected in the subtitle of Killinger’s groundbreaking 1991 book, Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts.
“These people were considered bright, intelligent, ambitious and therefore successful,” Killinger told me recently. These same people also kept showing up in her private practice –overworked and stressed out. Still, back then, she said, “nobody even knew what workaholism was.”
Now, workaholism is, as one business consultant put it in a recent article in the WebMd newsletter, “the addiction du jour in American corporations.” In this country, a 2007 Statistics Canada study found that nearly one in three Canadians between the age 19 and 64 identify themselves as workaholics.
What may be more telling is the way hard work is starting to be stigmatized. The last few years have seen a proliferation of books like How to Be Idle, Doing Nothing, The Importance of Being Lazy, and In Praise of Slow.
There’s also Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, a kind of bible for the burnt out. It made it to the top of the Wall Street Journal bestseller list in 2007.
According to Ferriss, a journalist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and the 2008 winner of Wired Magazine’s Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time prize, it’s time to “define laziness anew” and “focus on being productive, not busy.”
Lazy, in other words, is the new busy.
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“I know a guy who left his wedding reception and went back to the office for a couple of hours. Incredibly, the marriage is still together.”
So in How to Succeed in Anything by Really Trying, MacInnis puts the emphasis on “anything” — home, family, school — and not just business. His chapter on workaholism is called Beware the Addiction.
FULL LINK TO ARTICLE – http://working.canada.com/vancouver/resources/story.html?id=613216ce-b432-43aa-9108-28c5b5edf582&p=1
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As long as you are young workaholism is like love of work but within years you will find it a real disease. Try to balance work with some passion or ohter active relaxing. It will help you in the future.
folk said it right, life is also to live, not work all the time.
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It does seem that social time is becoming more and more important to people, but I don’t think you really appreciate time off unless you have experienced the opposite end of the spectrum. I agree with you work is great and gives you a sense of achievement and as long as you don’t neglect your family or health there is nothing wrong with it and should be encouraged.
With wireless internet and blackberries it’s nearly impossible to stay away from work. I consider myself a ‘laptop/cellphone addict’, I may or may not be using them for work but I am definitely using one of them almost all my waking hours
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I agree work is great and gives you a sense of achievement.thanks.
I really know what you are talking about. I am 19 years and i work as a freelancer in webdesign and programming. 60hours a week or more is normal. Sometime I am frightened of myself because of working so hard. My friends make party at weekend but i am still working. But this is my future i want to be my own boss so i have to work hard for it.
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No matter how difficult or hard a job is..as long you love and enjoy it..then being a workaholic doesn’t matter at all.
yeah no harder word when you are happy doing it. good for you. loving your work is also akey to success.
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Although you love to work, also take care of yourself by taking some time off.
Rest keeps us sane.
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I certainly wouldn’t classify myself as a workaholic, but there is a lot to say about the trend toward laziness in this country. I think that laziness is one of the biggest problems the youth of the US are facing. Very few kids seem to have a healthy respect and desire for hard work and its going to hurt this country in very little time.
some people working workaholic but they like it and you are the one.. just working smart workaholism…
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well as you live your life, you’ll know money or power really isn’t important , family is, don’t be the billionaire who has no family in the end,
I go on a vacation When i tired from my work.
Being workaholic is not a bad thing.But the fact is that one should always keep in mind that there are others things in life that need to be taken care of as well like your family.
Your post was very informative for me. I’m a freelance writer, writing on different texts and articles for my clients. I also run my own blog to promote my services.
Taking a break from work sometimes really feels good.But i too love to work.
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Im so glade to know that you are a workaholic.i love to do my work too,im working 16 hours in a day daily and want to do more and more as much as possiable.keep working and thanks for sharing.
Workaholic not been much bad, real Workaholic can easily maintain work and social life as you doing or did, some time work makes more relax than vacation.