# What makes you go to work every day?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-go-to-work-every-day/16649>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 11, 1999, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-go-to-work-every-day/16649 "1999-08-11T01:51:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 1999, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-go-to-work-every-day/16649/21 "1999-08-14T21:57:00Z")

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I go to work because I would feel guilty if I didn’t.

You need to hire more lapsed Catholics.

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**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 1999, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-go-to-work-every-day/16649/22 "1999-08-15T00:57:00Z")

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If not for my great co-workers, my job would be unbearably depressing. I like my job because I actually get to help people, to make people’s lives better or at least blunt some of the tragedy. My job has meaning. I make the world a better place. The down side of this is that it eats me alive.

Given a choice between sitting on a beach and going to work, I’d still choose the beach, but I need the money. The goal is to work hard now and invest my money right so I won’t HAVE to work forever.

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