Can Chasing the All Mighty Dollar Ruin Family Life?

Can Chasing The All Might Dollar Ruin Family Life At Home?

Americans are constantly striving for success, or at least that next paycheck; day in and day out we are waking up early and going to bed late. Driven by our society to make money and have the best life offers, we have taken this quest for the easy life and turned it into a life of worry and stress.

Work does not have to rule our days; we can work and have time out for family and fun as well. It is possible to have it all, as long as we Americans take back out day and try to make our place of employment somewhere enjoyable to be.

Our lives are controlled by work and work is controlled by the boss. Every hour of our day is planned around that dreaded place we call work; we have become slaves to the time card and family has become second place on our to-do list. Everyday we wake up and think about our day's plans. For most of us Americans, those plans include six to eight hours of paid employment, or work.

Six to eight hours does not sound like long, but it is on third of our day, five or six days a week. For some the work week is even longer. We are told what time to arrive at work and what time to leave; if we are hungry, too bad, its not lunch time yet. We not only allow some stranger to take over our lives, we welcome them in, thanking God we found a job.

What is it that makes us so willing to give up our time and energy for a faceless industry?

Well, the answer is easy and at the same time not so easy. We work in order to provide the best for our families. But while sacrificing ourselves to the greater good we are tearing ourselves down day by day, to the point of constant exhaustion and continuous recovery from work. In the end, we suffer and our families suffer.

I know that one of my biggest complaints at home is not enough time with my husband who works up to sixty hour weeks to provide our family. I am lucky in the fact that I do not have to work at this time and can at least spend my days with our young daughter. But two income families is increasingly more common to survive. Kids come home from school to an empty home and no one to help them with their daily problems.