My Grandpa Peterman once responded to my statement that he worked too much that I had a negative attitude about work. He went into further detail about it, but let me say that I did have, and sometimes still do, a negative attitude about work. This video (contains graphic description about sheep castration) got my attention in a big way:
Work is a good thing – I’m glad to be employed and part of the problem of our economy has been the glamorization of not working. Or working less. I don’t like to be exhausted from work (which I have been in the last few weeks) but I do like honest physical labor, good intellectual challenges in coding, and to achieve something that is sometimes mundane, sometimes new, but always a job well done.
Keep up the good work. And if you’re not, change that.