Which would you choose: a high-paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family and friends or a lower-paying job with shorter hours that would give you more time with family and friends? Explain your choice, using specific reasons and details.
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I would prefer to have less working hours and moderately less salary. Ideal working hours are eight per day. Rarely extension of working hours is tolerable but if that becomes a regular feature it would be impossible to cope. However money is no criteria.
Working time refers to the period of time that an individual spends at work as a paid worker. Many countries regulate the work week by law, such as stipulating minimum daily rest periods, annual holidays and a maximum number of working hours per week. The 8-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement had its origins. In some industries the mass production transforms working life and imposes long hours and poor working conditions. With unregulated working conditions, the health, welfare and morale of working people suffers. The working day that could range from 10 hours up to 16 hours for six days a week is an undesirable situation.
Long hours working affects the health of the worker adversely and one may soon end up miserably. After all, “Health is Wealth”. A trifling amount of overtime wages can not compensate the health loss. Hence every worker must not only look at the tangible gains of a trifling overtime wage, but one must look at the intangible gains. Secondly every worker has a family, friends and a social circle. If a person is unable to give any time for family, friends and the society one does no justice to the near and dear ones. After all man is a social creature so he or she must fulfill all family as well as social obligations too.
In conclusion every one must work, earn money, enjoy with family, friends, relatives and the society but one should not become a workaholic.
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