Living a work centric life and how to change it a bit

[pudding]

Anyone else live what could be called a work centric life? when they don't have to work just for the money, but work a lot anyway?

By that I mean that I usually hinge my life around working...

I like working, I'm a self employed carpenter/renovator/property owner, landlord.

And for sure my work has been a great thing in times past when I had big personal loss in family and life.

Nowadays though I think I just do it habitually. I can afford to work less, maybe even 3 days a week which would be wonderful. If I sold up I could maybe even FIRE.

But so far I haven't, I usually hit the weekend tired and spend Friday napping and not doing much, often Saturday is the same thing, maybe run some errands, fall asleep in afternoon. Sunday I usually have recovered enough to do some fun stuff and really enjoy that time.

I have things that I want to do in life that require the energy and time, but seem to put them on the back burner. They seem to be on the back burner because under current mode of operating they are less important than work.

Sometimes I think I'd just burn out on leisure and going to the gym if I didn't have work to do... maybe I need to take up meditation or more yoga type stuff.

Anyway, enough of that ramble!

[marty998]

I "suffer" form this quite a bit. Fairly exhausted at the end of each week so Saturday I end up taking really easy. Almost as if I waste half the weekend.

I've gotten better at taking my accrued leave days, the balance is starting to come down, which obviously implies I'm spending less time at work. But it could always be better.

[pudding]

I "suffer" form this quite a bit. Fairly exhausted at the end of each week so Saturday I end up taking really easy. Almost as if I waste half the weekend.

I've gotten better at taking my accrued leave days, the balance is starting to come down, which obviously implies I'm spending less time at work. But it could always be better.

Yes, it seems to be a bit of a bad habit with me.

Like having too much to drink and waking with a hangover.... you know that it wasn't an optimal way to do it, you know you over did it and now feel bad for doing it.

(Workaholics anonymous? ;)    also i do the same with exercise. I'll do too much and then tired and ache and wonder what the point was. And I do it to the detriment of other parts of life that I really enjoy.

Reading what I've written I'm thinking it's a bit of a crappy habit to have. 

Before I was thinking it was just a bit of a quirky thing.. but no I think its a bit like over eating or watching too much TV, over indulging in drinking beer or coffee.. to those I'm adding overdoing it at work in both time spent working and also physically exhausting myself.

I'm going to view it as a bad habit and one that I'll overcome.