Do you "work to live" or "live to work"?  I feel like most of us work to live these days.

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I work to live. If I didn't have to pay my bills, I would retire and just relax. I've got to support my family so it's off to work I go, every day, month after month, year after year - lol.

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Live to work and it’s pathetic because I’m severely underpaid but all I do is work.

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I work to find a job so I can live to work...it sucks as it's a job in itself so I feel you.

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Which one is the bad one? Whichever one of those is the bad one is the one that I'm doing. My life feels like it revolves around work and it makes me sad.

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Live to work. Have lots of loans.

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Same with the loans

I work to live. My life is much more than just where I work or the work that I perform for a paycheck.

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Unless things go to &$@; for a hot minute when everything crashes? The bank crash killed my client base.

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Trying to get to work to live. Academia has been toxic and trying to slowly get better at that overwork mindset. Juggling this with trying to get better pay at the same time...

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I'm working like no other now, so I can play like no other later.

36 now... on track to retire by 45 if the market stays true, 48 if the market takes a dump at a bad time and doesn't recover before 45.

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I enjoy my job, and I'm comfortable where I'm at in life. I have financial goals, but finances aren't a burden.
I really don't know if that means I live to work or vice versa?

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Work to live for the last several years. One day, very soon, I hope I will be able to love the work I do. But for now, it is what it is.

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