{"id":230,"date":"2009-06-19T23:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-06-20T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:10:40","slug":"thou-shalt-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/2009\/reflection\/thou-shalt-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou shalt not work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Looks like no work today\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/463851978_8d665f55db.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First you read<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heinrich B\u00f6ll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral (anecdote for decreasing the working morale), then<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Coupland: Generation X, and finally<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Ferris: 4 Hour Work Week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you ask yourself: what am I doing here?<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f6ll says, work only to get food on your table, then <strong>enjoy life<\/strong>.<br \/>\nCoupland says, work only in jobs, that don&#8217;t\u00a0 hijack your brain, then <strong>enjoy life<\/strong> in your free time.<br \/>\nFerris says, work efficiently for getting the money you need to <strong>enjoy life<\/strong> the way you want it.<\/p>\n<p>Now we can update the headline: Thou shalt only work to enjoy life more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer:<\/em><br \/>\nThe literature mentioned above can seriously influence the way you think about your career. The author cannot be held responsible for a happier and sunnier life far away from the treadmill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First you read Heinrich B\u00f6ll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral (anecdote for decreasing the working morale), then Douglas Coupland: Generation X, and finally Timothy Ferris: 4 Hour Work Week. Now you ask yourself: what am I doing here? B\u00f6ll says, work only to get food on your table, then enjoy life. Coupland says, work only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/2009\/reflection\/thou-shalt-not-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thou shalt not work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-english"],"geo":{"latitude":50.1115112,"longitude":8.6805058,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thilodeussen.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}