Work serves an important purpose in our life. It not only helps us create value, but also helps us learn from people and experiences. So yes, work is important,

Work serves an important purpose in our life. It not only helps us create value, but also helps us learn from people and experiences. So yes, work is important, but not most important. It deserves our attention, but not the whole of it. Our family, not our work, comes first. I love this thinking and wish it would take more of a precedent versus finding new ways to describe and justify why work should be the central meme of our societal-existence. I recognize that work has its place in our lives, but I also maintain a lot of mental well being by reminding myself that work is not the total sum of meaning in our lives. That includes this seemingly in vogue reframing of work away from "work-life balance" to "work-life blend" of the last several years[1]. The last thing I want is to 'blend' work with life, because then all compartmentalization goes away, the already faint demarcation lines that exist between employer and employee grow even fainter, and boundaries become problematic to enforce. The leadership and management class enjoy 'work-life-balance' and 'work-life-blend' in very different ways than the rank and file cadre and I wish there was as much writing about that as there was about how I should strive for "blending" my work life with my life life. [1] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=work+life+blend https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=work+li...