Increasing your status at work is seductive and easy, but temporary. Increasing your status in society at large requires investment of time and/or money in your

Increasing your status at work is seductive and easy, but temporary. Increasing your status in society at large requires investment of time and/or money in your local community, open source or building a community on-line. Spending less time at work makes it possible to do all these things and it is something that I would very much like to do. Of course, since I am working 60-70 hour work weeks, perhaps doing other stuff is just seductive to me right now.