Bertrand Russell

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Daniel Toke Hansen

This great essay was written in the '30s and still extremely relevant today and possibly in the future. What is work and should we not see work as a means to an end rather than the goal in itself? As a person in between jobs, at the moment, this essay was particularly interesting since it made me look differently at what I want with my life. Why focus on climbing the later and earning more when I should be looking at what kind of life I want to live and find a job that makes that possible? Get out of the rat race and think of what I'm happy and content with instead of what more I could get if I worked and earned more. Wealthy people, with no financial worries, sometimes use a cliche like; "Why live to work when you should work to live" and I must admit I should think about that some more. The reason I think "normal" people have a hard time with that cliche is that they always strive for more and that is a vicious consumerism cycle (work more = get more and the repeat). Instead one should figure out what makes them truly happy and how much time do you need to work in order to make that life possible.

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