# Would you chooose to "not live" through your workday if you could **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946 "2013-11-02T21:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/21 "2013-11-03T03:42:48Z")
Yes, but i have a history of depression. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/22 "2013-11-03T05:15:53Z")
I enjoy my job itself but since it’s an art related job, when it gets heavy it tends to suck the desire for my own personal art out of me. So I’d much rather have half my life with twice the desire to create more of my own art. Maybe I’d actually get something worthwhile done, then. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/23 "2013-11-03T05:43:15Z")
Hell no. As a compulsive programmer I get to go to work, code stuff I’ve come up with myself, see people use it, and get paid big bucks. And I even avoid meetings mostly - but can zone out during them. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/24 "2013-11-03T05:50:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If you had the kind of job that would make you want to “not live it”, then you’re probably doing some shit job that pays shit wages, and if you never experience it, you’ll never want to get a better one. I think you better re-parse that sentence, pardner. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/25 "2013-11-03T12:22:15Z")
If I just fast-forwarded through my work day, when would I get all my SDMBing done? Or would the autopilot handle that for me as well? ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/26 "2013-11-03T12:33:23Z")
I’ve considered something similar to this idea before, and wondered about it myself. In my version, though, it can be done a day (or even hour) at a time. What would worry me is using it too much, as my tolerance for stuff I don’t want to do drops lower and lower. I don’t think I could make the commitment to do it for 2 years. ---
**Author:** ![FrillyNettles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ea924/32.png) [@FrillyNettles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrillyNettles)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/27 "2013-11-03T13:07:40Z")
No way. I don’t just like my job, I LOVE it! I feel most alive while at work, because it’s what I was born to do. This does not mean, btw, that I don’t also enjoy my non-work life, because I do. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/28 "2013-11-03T13:12:24Z")
No. I really enjoy my job and often wish I could work more and fast forward through other parts of my life. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/29 "2013-11-03T20:22:03Z")
I like my job. Next , one of the things I have to do on my job is a program that takes 1-5 minutes to load a new "case’. This gives me time to read the SDMB, etc. So there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946/30 "2013-11-03T20:59:48Z")
After many decades of working for other people and making them rich, I’m finally doing the work I love at just a fraction of my former income. It’s among the most “alive” times for me, and there’s no way I’d give up that experience. But the work I’ve done in the past: not only would I happily “not live” through it, I’d happily have no recollection whatsoever of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-chooose-to-not-live-through-your-workday-if-you-could/672946.md?page=1)