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Live to work or work to live?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry

Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel

Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7

Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)

I often worked 90 hour weeks

I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.

Do you work to live?

Or live to work?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live to work. I’m on apprenticeship wages and live alone, so I can’t afford to do much else

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am re assessing my work/life balance at the moment. I'm not getting any younger and my role is exhausting....But what to do after a lifetime of what I do is the thing

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

You work to live

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually

Work to live.

I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Do you work to live?

Or live to work? "

I finaly enjoy a job that I do. so I’ve sorted that out!

I now want to live a life, and can.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Work to live.

I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful."

You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worked to live, and now retired and loving life.

Worked on oilrigs for 30 years

2 weeks offshore/ 3 weeks home leave which was a good works rotation although courses had to be done in weeks off.

Paid into pension avc's and eventually this paid off with a healthy monthly pension

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually


"Work to live.

I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful.

You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X "

I don't know. Taking an apprenticeship in my 30s for less than £4 an hour was a tough fucken year and I should have done it years earlier when I had more support.

It was worth it though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Work to live.

I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful.

You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X

I don't know. Taking an apprenticeship in my 30s for less than £4 an hour was a tough fucken year and I should have done it years earlier when I had more support.

It was worth it though."

As long as you're happy now, that's what counts. I was imprisoned by the job, although I didn't see it then

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Feels like we live to work. We try our best to have a good work/life balance but it's isn't easy. Roll on retirement in 20 years time!

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

I have retired from my full time job, which I loved. Now I work part time in the adventure travel industry, which I love even more!

Gbat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

no plans on retiring, I love my work and my clients.

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

Work to live for sure.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Work is a means to an end, so work to live

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Done the first. Waste of life. Doing the second..

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By *amantha TSWoman
over a year ago

Swindon

Bit of both. Main job is work to live, if I could I'd quit it in a heartbeat but mortgages don't get paid that way. Second job is definitely live to work, it honestly is getting paid to do my hobby and although there's times where it can be hard work the end results are always worth it!

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8


"I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry

Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel

Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7

Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)

I often worked 90 hour weeks

I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.

Do you work to live?

Or live to work? "

I’ve done both, OP. Sometimes, especially when single, I’ve been all about working like the proverbial. These days I try to ensure I have a good balance.

On reflection, what would you have liked to do instead? Do you think hospitality was a good grounding and you should have cut and run? Or would you like to have done something entirely unrelated?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No one ever looked back on their life and wished they spent more time at work.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

I do half and half … some weeks (months even) i live to work, 60/70 hour weeks.

But then it affords me a good wage and the respect at work that other times i work to live and scrape by on the bare minimum while focussing on my personal life

Swings and roundabouts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Work is a means to an end for me, so work to live.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live to love or love to live

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By *ot a hot wifeMan
over a year ago

glasgow

I am now trying to rejig what I do so that I can live more with investment and houses and that kinda thing cos life is for living eh.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I am now trying to rejig what I do so that I can live more with investment and houses and that kinda thing cos life is for living eh."

Makes perfect sense

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live to work at the moment, starting again in your mid 50's is tough going! But hopefully will get to enjoy myself at some point.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry

Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel

Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7

Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)

I often worked 90 hour weeks

I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.

Do you work to live?

Or live to work? "

Sometimes the choice isn't yours , being honest , most would want to be financially well off so they could enjoy the trappings of wealth ( both physical & mental Health to me is first and foremost btw ) but sometimes a person is in or after being put in a position that requires him/ her to work unsociable hours, days etc and they have to roll with the punches.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just changed my working days so i have more time for me.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

With the cost of living starting to bite, I am working to live.

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

Work to live, you dont realise how little time you get until it starts to go, live the life you have don't moan about it enjoy it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Until last year I would have said live to work, but I've made so many changes practically and in my mind in the past 12months that I'm now very happily the opposite.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Work to live. We both stopped working at 57 and haven't regretted it for a nanosecond.

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