{"id":987,"date":"2013-07-30T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:26:12","slug":"poem-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/poem-work-week\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Work Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day I didn’t feel like going to work<\/span>
\nSome people call them weekdays<\/span><\/p>\n

This one goes out to all of you who feel, chronically and\/or acutely, that going to work is, well…work. \u00a0I wouldn’t mind being the guy who was known for proposing the 3-hour work week. \u00a0My suggestion of a 3-hour work week is based on the concept, and with some experience, that working on average more than 45 minutes per day for four days per week is detrimental to human well-being. \u00a0Now, I define work as doing something you don’t want to do. \u00a0As the economic beings that we are often reduced to, this largely means those activities where we simply exchange your life energy for money — most people call them jobs, where you sell yourself to someone else — and shortchange your quality of life\u00a0. \u00a0Of course, it could mean squashing spiders occupying your living space — which generally fits well into one’s 45-minute allotment. \u00a0No doubt, one of the handier practices in achieving a 3-hour work week, is learning to like what you do. \u00a0A version of this would be called Karma Yoga in Hinduism. \u00a0However, those of us living in Western civilization may be better able to relate to following our passions, structuring our life in such a way that our passions flow more freely. \u00a0Unfortunately, Westerners are socialized from birth to achieve security through money, and that money will give us freedom. \u00a0Perhaps the best illustration of why this doesn’t work can be had by simply observing Western culture over my lifetime (50-odd years — some would say very odd!). \u00a0For instance, the U.S. has over three times the material wealth that it had when I was born. \u00a0Also, a dream from those days, and perhaps these days still, is for increasing leisure, often brought about by technological advancement minimizing boring or routine tasks. \u00a0Well, this hasn’t happened. \u00a0In fact, Americans work longer work weeks than they did in recent generations — with the added “benefit” of having more household members selling themselves outside their home. We are no happier. \u00a0I suspect that a more workable solution to living consistent with our passions would be to downgrade the whole money gives us freedom thing and start with the question, “What would I do if money were not an issue?”<\/p>\n

You may have noted that clustering the work over four days implies that at least three or more days a week should be free of work. \u00a0I see the practice of sabbath as essential to create and re-create our lives. \u00a0My own personal take on this progressive spiritual practice would be to take off every seventh year, every seventh month, every seventh day, every seventh minute, and every seventh second. \u00a0This represents the re-centering our lives around something other than “work” — read “money,” and practicing mindfulness at all times, in all that we do (or don’t do). \u00a0Plus, as an addendum to this progressive journey of sabbaths, I am partial to the Jewish concept of the year of jubilee<\/a> practiced. The year of jubilee is a sabbath year of sabbath years (every 49th or 50th year), where property returns to its original owners, recognizing that God owns that land (and all), and serves to prevent accumulation and concentration of wealth due\u00a0to the vagaries and greed of human life. \u00a0Making such a grand project a reality definitely provides a lot of work that I can be passionate about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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