I’ve been considered a workaholic before.
I’m just trying to figure out what others have done to be told/considered this.
Another question relating to this, …has anyone done work with their laptop, while being on the pooper?
Not a debate.
Off to MPSIMS.
Since I’ve been working 60-70 hours a week for a few months now…voluntarily…most consider me a workaholic.
Working a 50 hour a week (minimum!) job for 6 plus years probably puts me in that category too
Nope. Never have been, never will be. I will occassionally work more than my 40 hours a week, but that’s an exception, not the norm.
Work is a way of earning money in order for me to do the things I want to. I don’t have time to work more than 40 hours a week, I’m too busy doing the things I want to! 
Hell, no. I am lazy, and will find any excuse not to have to work at all.
I will dedicate myself to a task sometimes, occasionally spending long hours on it, usually for no gain to myself beyond personal satisfaction or for the good of the project, but that’s very occasional.
Generally I live for downtime.
I like my work and it is important to me. I don’t know if it is being a woraholic under those circumstances. I work about 60 hours a week. I’ve never used a laptop on the hopper, but I have used my iphone.
Yeah, have been a long time. Right now I am involved in a start up, work from home and work a lot of hours.
Will I always be one? I dunno, if I found a relationship I think I could refocus and split my time better.
I view toilet activity as something that needs to be done and I get in and out - I would never work in there.
What kind of job do you have Deereman?
I am absolutely a workaholic. If I don’t get really drunk first, I can’t do any work at all. That’s what that word means, right?
If you go to work and then the next day you wake up feeling shitty and vowing never to do it again, but you still get right back up and repeat it all over again, then you are a workaholic.
Is a workaholic simply someone who works a ton of hours? Because to me, there is a difference between:
- someone who can’t leave work at the office because they are…I dunno, OCD or feel guilt or something and can never let go
vs. - people who truly love their jobs and find themselves thinking about it because…well, it’s cool and interesting.
I work pretty normal hours - home for dinner every night (I better be, since I do the cooking ;)) and rarely work weekends, but I am totally absorbed by my job in a good way…
So I would say I am not a workaholic, but love my work.
This is how I generally see work. Work is a way for me to financially enable my goofing off. If I don’t get to goof off, what’s the point?
I absolutely agree. Also, I don’t think 50 hours a week is really that much, most senior management jobs require that amount of level of effort.
A factory job. Not great pay. Long hours. Just a guy running a machine.
Change of subject, but, is it me or do men do most of the cooking now-a-days?
I feel like I’m a workaholic…I don’t hate my job though and I do have a social life. I did make a thread though about how my landlord thinks I devote literally my entire life to my job, pretty much only because I don’t talk to her.
See, this is completely the opposite of how I define workaholic. If you dislike your job, but work long hours for other reasons (need money, fear that you won’t be able to find another, desire to please your boss, etc.) you are not a workaholic. If you have the choice to be doing other things, but you choose to work instead, that to me is a workaholic.
“I’d love to go out to dinner with you, but I have to finish this stupid project or my boss will yell at me,” = not a workaholic.
“I’m sorry, I can’t go to dinner with you because I’d much rather spend my time working on this project,” = workaholic.
I work about 9-10 hours a day and often come in on the weekend, but I don’t consider myself a workaholic because I only do this under duress. I would never choose to work on a weekend and I am overjoyed whenever I have the opportunity to leave early or have the weekend free. Maybe my definition is just off.
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No and no.
In graduate school there were periods when I was working a 110h/week. My boss berated me for taking time off every Sunday: I asked whether he was telling me I could not go to Mass.
He dropped it.
Gotta love knowing how to use local laws to your advantage (it was in the US; “I need to rest too you know” wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere, but the stick of “not allowing free exercise of religious belief” did wonders).
There have been other periods where I worked my butt off, voluntarily, but they were always cases where each additional minute I put in saved other people a lot of work; it had a direct, positive impact on results. Any boss of mine who likes “face time” is seriously disappointed in me, as I’m one of those efficient people who see that something needs doing, does it and goes back to the Dope until clock-out time.
To me the workaholics are the ones who live and breathe their work - but not because of the nature of the work, but because it’s theirs and they can’t let go of it; for example, a photographer who sees something and thinks “uh, I’d love to take a pic of that” or sees someone elses’s pics and analyzes them in a deeper fashion than an untrained onlooker would is not a workaholic: he’s got “a mind that’s been shaped by his job”, translating a Spanish expression (deformación profesional). On the other hand, one who spent every waking minute actively searching for stuff to capture would be a workaholic (“honey, what are you doing?” “do you think an orange filter would work well here?” “a WHAT? We’re fucking! Or rather, we were! Get the fuck out of my house!”).
They’re also the same ones who can’t delegate (because “it’s my responsibility”), shut down the Blackberry or leave when they should (“but what if someone needs help?”).
A workaholic is obsessed by his job and unable to let it go.