The rested and guilty

If Nature abhors a vacuum; then why doesn't she just sweep?

Are there rehab programs for workaholics? Not that I am a workaholic. I have a day job. I have a part time side job and occasionally take side project work for friends and co-workers. I have multiple volunteer jobs at multiple levels in the cap. What's wrong with that? I am not a workaholic. Stop looking at me like that.

We all start at denial. I can blame genetics or at least poor role models because I come from a family chock-a-block full of workaholics. They are all ate up with it and don't even know it.

I prefer to think of myself as a driven underachiever with a guilt complex. Years of being called lazy by other workaholics puts some unrealistic thoughts into your head.

What would rehab be like? I won't go and you can't make me. I can see some sort of reality t.v. show based on the Workaholic's Rehab center. The people in the rehab would be sneaking into the administrator's offices to use their computers to check e-mail. Maybe they would start servicing the laser printer or file paperwork.

The Doctor would come by and say:

Doc: I hear you were working today.
Me: No, I was relaxing like you told me to.
Doc: Well, the nurse said you filled all of the paper trays in the copier.
Me: That is relaxing for me. That is not work, who calls that work?
Doc: I also heard you bribed a janitor for the keys to the server closet.
Me: I thought it was a media room.
Doc: Then why did you organize and label the patch panel?
Me: Was that wrong?

I used to think that if I made X number of dollars that I could sit back and enjoy life. I was kinda right. It is actually more about debt to income ratio than about salary. We hit a magic debt to income ratio for a few years and things were nice. I stopped working outside of my day job completely but then a cascade of mergers and buyouts happened to me and that all went out the window. The magic ratio is gone and despite our higher salaries we have more expenses than ever..

So.... I work. I should be working now. Never mind it is really late in the PM and I am at home. At least my addiction doesn't kill anyone.