Just as you suspected, you're overworked

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

One in three American workers are chronically overworked, with job-related stress varying significantly by age, employment situation, and demands at home, according to a new survey.

The survey by the Families and Work Institute largely echoes one done by the group in 2001 which also found that a third of employees are highly overworked. But that static result obscures changes in the workplace, where some workers are more stressed even as others — particularly younger workers — are finding ways to balance the demands.

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It is interesting to note that the reason the study gives for fewer stressed out younger workers is that younger people tend to have lives outside their jobs, which, if I recall correctly, is something that Baby-Boomers were scolding Gen-Xers about back in the 90s. Well, ha ha. I guess. Really, boomers would do well to take their work less seriously. I mean, otherwise you're just a wage slave, unless you're doing something you really love, and, of course, only a few people are so lucky. What it comes down to is asking who you're living your life for. Yourself, family, and friends? Or some corporate board that sees you as just a cog in a vast machine to be used or discarded as it deems necessary? Screw that. I'm working for me.

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