During the Victorian era, it was decided that working was a virtuous act and that mindset has remained across the western world into the modern day.
It was predicted by (Keynes, maybe?) that due to industrial automation the average man would only have to work a 2 day week.
Sadly, automation simply put people out of work as people are payed by the hour, not by the work done and so everyone was instead put out of work and the rich became wealthy beyond their dreams of avarice.
In short, you are only working because people don't want to admit you don't really need to be. You're asked to work long hours and even more than you are contacted to in some cases just to give the illusion that you are spending your time in a virtuous manner and theres definitely a really good reason for it all.
There isn't really. So you feel bad because deep down you know you are wasting your time doing nothing of value for you or the world because rich people hate to see poor people get a free ride when they don't have wealth.
So wealth is equated with virtue and you will never be happy because if you will never be wealthy enough and even if you were you would be a fucking asshole because all wealthy people are fucking assholes. Normal people couldn't care less about having loads of money for no reason other than to have loads of money.
Just work contracts and not wage jobs and never work over the time your contracted to work. If they ask you to do more work say when you can do it. How long it will take and how much it will cost then see if they still want the extra work.
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