Do you ever get the feeling your lifestyle is not of your choosing but has already been designed? If so read on... If you feel youve been numbed by the 40 hour work week, I suggest you give this a read. It frames up quite beautifully the speculated reasoning behind why we work the hours we do and how they have little if any correlation to productivity. It also talks about how it drives a culture that only seeks escape and indulgence (ie turns us into good little consumers). When I worked freelance and structured my own schedule I would often run my errands during the day, do some sort of outdoor activity and then work late into the evening doing my design work. I could complete 2-3 times the amount of work in one day that I could compared to working in the office with the endless distractions and the giant lunches which would induce a food coma with little desire to be creative. I hope more companies begin to adopt a more flex work schedule (including being more open to employees working remote) to promote better work life balance and get away from this culture of mind numbing asses in the seat for 8 -10 hours a day regardless of the amount of work you do mindset. (Thanks for sharing this Remy.) The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so scarce. Suddenly I have a lot more money and a lot less time, which means I have a lot more in common with the typical working North American than I did a few months ago. While I was abroad I wouldn’t have thought twice about spending the day wandering through a national park or reading my book on the beach for a few hours. Now that kind of stuff feels like it’s out of the question. Doing either one would take most of one of my precious weekend days! filmsforaction.org/news/your_lifestyle_has_already_been_designed/
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:10:42 +0000