{"id":512,"date":"2004-03-29T04:39:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/29\/HowMuchWorkIsTooMuch.aspx"},"modified":"2004-03-29T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T04:39:51","slug":"how-much-work-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/29\/how-much-work-is-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"How much work is too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Okay, it&#8217;s official, I have too much to do at work too.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ve made a concerted effort to cut down on the number of projects at home, but it seems that there is a cosmic force at work with the sole desire to see me have a mental breakdown.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>So, how do I deal?&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Step one, find some clever quotes:<\/P><br \/>\n<DL><br \/>\n<DT>All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.<br \/>\n<DD><FONT size=1><STRONG>Aristotle (384 BC &#8211; 322 BC)<\/STRONG><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DT>One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one&#8217;s work is terribly important.<br \/>\n<DD><FONT size=1><STRONG>Bertrand Russell (1872 &#8211; 1970)<\/STRONG><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DT>Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?<br \/>\n<DD><FONT size=1><STRONG>Edgar Bergen (1903 &#8211; 1978)<\/STRONG><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DT>Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.<br \/>\n<DD><FONT size=1><STRONG>Horace (65 BC &#8211; 8 BC)<\/STRONG><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DT>I&#8217;m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.<br \/>\n<DD><FONT size=1><STRONG>Thomas Jefferson (1743 &#8211; 1826)<\/STRONG><\/FONT> <\/DD><\/DL><br \/>\n<P>Step two, remember I&#8217;m going to Florida soon to sit on the beach and do nothing at all.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Bah!&nbsp; Whining is for four-year-olds. :p<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s official, I have too much to do at work too. I&#8217;ve made a concerted effort to cut down on the number of projects at home, but it seems that there is a cosmic force at work with the sole desire to see me have a mental breakdown.&nbsp; So, how do I deal?&nbsp; Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlelife","tag-idlelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}