Working Too Hard

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The paper looks at how John de Graff in "Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America" reveals that people are working harder than ever today because they are in pursuit of material things. The paper discusses how many such people do not realize until it is too late that there is more to life than money. The paper explains that only by learning to detach oneself from the monetary and material concerns of life, can a person have any recreation or leisure time.

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"In the book Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, author John de Graff talks about the differences between how much work versus vacation time people get in the United States and how much they get in Europe. In the United States, people work longer, if not harder. Their days are generally longer, and they do not take the kind of time for vacation and holidays that other people in other countries do. There is the idea in America that a job defines a person, and unless that person works to support a family to an excessive degree, that person is not a valuable member of society. Of course this is not true, but many people have still been conditioned to think that it is."

Sample of Sources Used:

• de Graff, John. (2003). Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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