I believe that for most of us we are much more than the role we play in work, our interests outside work say a lot more about us since this is what we choose to do and not what we need to do to live. I am a work to live, and not a live to work person, although I have always been fortunate and had what I found to be interesting employment.

I kind of think this is harsh. I started work full time at 11 and worked until I literally dropped in my tracks waking up in Cardiac ICU four days in a row after almost four decades of work. Such a work-a-holic was I that my growm children and coworkers and friends just assumed I was at another job. I had gone to work for years on crutches, in a wheelchair, even with casts and stitches. So I definitely have a work ethic haveing started thriving businesses and even teaching others how to work and be sucessful. But I am at the point that I can pay my own bills; the minimal ones I have since home amd all non perishable accounts are paid off, and retire comfortably, so I really don't see why I should have to work, and maybe put someone else out of a job, just to satisfy someone elses value of me. Not like I can take it with me.

Myself I'm the same person at work as I'm away from it... I do enjoy my job even if it is just working in the front office for a Machine Shop....

Now a job can for some over take their lives where they only live for their work and seem to forget about the world outside of work...

When I walk out the door from work each day I leave my work at the door...