Is your job your main focus?are you a workaholic?

[whatisforteamum]

I am always moaned at for putting my job first even though I work in an industry where shifts vary and I work unsociable hours.I get great satisfaction from work and have been doing 50 hr weeks sometimes up at 5 home at 1030.
Even my employer can't believe I'm happy enough doing the housework and gardening before cracking back on with a busy week.I'm only 50.I suffer anxiety so keeping busy helps with this.
I find more than a couple of days off very boring.Everyone tells me life is too short to spend at work.Who is right?

Sounds awful to me. Absolutely awful. It would make me very unhappy and ill. However if it keeps you happy and sane then it's ok.

To enjoy your work is a gift. It keeps your mind active, challenges you, keeps you sharp and gives self-esteem and a sense of achievement. It is also a surprisingly creative endeavour and brings in the dosh.

Appreciate it does not work that way for everybody. My heart sings when I hear that someone enjoys that work because somehow, it is not the done thing to say.

I think the camaraderie from working shifts helps too.I work with people half my age or younger so we enjoy a good laugh too which takes my mind off being middle aged.Adrenaline must play a part in fast paced environment s.I wonder if anyone has got to old age and regretted investing so much time to work.

Most of the people I work with are workaholics so they judge the rest of us by their standards. I just can't devote so much of my precious time to caring about stuff that is ultimately pointless and useless.

I don't want to pack my life with lots of other stuff - I just can't get so invested in work.

It sounds like avoidance tactics tbh. Which is all fine while it works, but I would worry about what might come when you can't hack it any more