Idleness offers an opportunity for play, something people rarely indulge in these days. I’ll continue making my beautiful embroidery that takes ungodly hours, and adamantly refuse to put a price on it. “I’ve started doing cross-stitch again, even though my friends warned that I could never sell my finished work because people aren’t willing to pay for all the hours it takes to make.
One solution to this is to take up a hobby that requires a lot of time. We skimp on personal lives in order to have more time for careers but we don’t get the ROI we expect. We listen to podcasts and audiobooks at double or even triple speed in order to get through quickly. Impatience shows up in all kinds of industries. People don’t have time to golf anymore.” – Graeme Maxton Hobbies have disappeared for the same reason. Today, you can get in instantly because people are spending their time working and shopping. “When I was a kid, my father was in the golf club. In fact, the overwork has become a norm that most often put in extra time voluntarily to earn promotions and raises. Today, it’s no surprise employers try to get as many hours as they can from their employees. As it turned out, overwork was counterproductive from the days of the sweatshop to the age of the knowledge worker.
This data dates back to the 1800s, at the time when unions force employers to cut hours, factory owners were surprised to find that productivity increased while accidents decreased. How did we get from hunger strikes and fistfights to voluntarily answering emails on Sunday nights and choosing to stay in the office to finish up? We ‘chose’ to work long hours and answer emails because we think it’s the only way to keep our jobs or do them well. Today, less than a hundred years later, we’ve given up that ground our ancestors fought so hard for. They worked so hard and fought so hard to secure fewer working hours for themselves and their offspring. Consider just for a moment how painful and labor intensive it was for our big ancestors to make a living back then.
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