Do You Enjoy Not Working?

Hello there. I have been unable to work for over a year now and I HATE it! I am on long term incapacity benefit due to illness and its driving me nuts. I miss so many things about the work place: being mentally challenged, meeting new people, having fun with colleagues and earning a good wage. I don't have any children at the moment and no pets so my days are incredibly long and drawn out. I have the computer for company and feel quite isolated. Without the income it is impossible to get out and do things when I am feeling well. This site has been a bit of a god send and has been keeping me busy though!!

Hello princess, I am recently retired, and had to move from Thailand to Australia in order to take advantage of my pension, and I find the days are sometimes difficult for many reasons. The main one being financial, Thailand is far cheaper than Australia. Second, the weather at the moment in Australia is very cold, and plays havoc with my joints. It is nice however, not having to organize one's time aroung a split teashing schedule.

I had worked on and off while my kids were young, most of the time staying at home with them. It seemed like we would either make too much to qualify for help with day care or we couldn't afford it. I would work and pay a sitter and after I figured what I was paying her, paying fed & state taxes, etc and the gas back and forth to work and the sitters, the babysitter was making more money than I was! There was a time when my daughter said something I didn't like, it was the sitters opinon on something (I don't remember what it was) but I decided, too that I would rather raise my kids with my opinions and values, not someone else's. Anyways, staying home does get boring sometimes but if you stick to a routine, it doesn't seem so bad. My biggest thing was always that when I did get away from the house & the kids, I would talk to adults like I would talk to the kids...asking where the "potty" was, eventually you snap out of it. Just a suggestion....check out flylady.com it does help with the routine and the same old same old that gets you in a daily rut that makes you not want to stay home anymore.

i didnt like not working bec. the time came that i became a bum in my home who's only asking money from my mother. so i found a job and of course all jobs have their hardships, then i started missing just staying at home. but then again your being a housewife isnt easy as well but i think it's more fulfilling for you right? keep up the good work!

I started working and earn my own money at 17 years old. I stopped at the age of 23. It is so boring if you have no work. I felt that I am just wasting my time doing nothing. So, I get back to work last 2007, just this year I stop again when I delivered my baby girl. Somewhat boring, but I promised to get back work mayvbe next year. As of now I'm trying to earn money online.

princess, I have been a stay at home mom off and on for nineteen years now. At first, I didn't work because I could not make enough to pay for child care. And now it's been so long since I worked and so many people are looking, no one wants to hire me so I'm working at home and trying to bring money in. But I have always liked staying at home. Five kids is enough work! And I agree that working on top of that is too much work. I heard somewhere that a full time mom's work should earn over a hundred thousand dollars a year. Wouldn't that be nice!!

i work part time (three mornings a week) and if i didnt do that, i think i would be pretty bored. my kids are older so they dont need me as much, but on my days off, i tend to do a lot of crafty things (which i make to sell and give as gifts).

Well, I didn't work for a year after I retired, and it was pretty nice, lots of computer time, crafting, etc. I had to have surgery - so I was doing things even tho I wasn't working - having said that - I don't have kids so that wasn't an issue.

i definitely enjoy if no need to work, provided i got passive income to support my living. NO WORK NO STRESS, NO STRESS NO ILL. if i not need to work, then i can allocate more time to mylot. Of course do something i really enjoy during the time like traveling and reading. a lots of reading.

I too have been working for some time but now i have taken a break for some time. I have done this only to experience how it feels to be without any work and without earning some money .. it really feels horrible and empty but still would like go on for some time like this so that i feel really like joining back and not leaving any other option for myself.....

I would enjoy not working if i had $1 million in my bank account, but everything we do is a job, we do not get paid for everything we do, you said you are a full time mum, thats more than 40 hrs work, you do not get paid for that? there are jobs out there thats so good that you will miss it if you stop working, and there are jobs out there, that people do it just because they want to servive.

I've been unemployed for almost a year now. At one time i was looking for work then i just sort of gave up on it. Now im due to have a baby girl in November. My plan was to find a part time job once i had the baby. Being that i start school end of August, I may still can get a part time job during the day if i have someone to keep my child. As far as enjoying not working, for a while its cool but then you get bored or can get lazy and when you have the opportunity to go back to work you're not as enthused. Or maybe its just me that feels this way...

of cousre i am all about fun i hate work it just gets me all stressed while no work and all play relieves the stress.

I can relate to your situation because I am in a similar one. I am a screenwriter who has sold a few scripts for 25,000-30,000 each, so I can live comfortably for a year without having to work a "real" full or part time job. However, a few people have told me that I should get a full or part time job just so I can have extra spending money. My thinking is the same as yours; The extra money is not worth the stress that comes with a full or part time job.

Sometimes. Other times I feel the itch and want to get a job so I can help supplement the family's income. I hadn't really worked for that long before I became pregnant with my first child. And in the line of work that I was in it was advised by my boss for me to quit. I didn't want to, but I didn't want to risk my baby's health, so in the end that is what I did. I haven't worked, paycheck wise, since. That was almost 13 years ago. Could be one of the reasons why I get that itch from time to time. I haven't been in the work force long enough to get my fill of it. My husband on the other hand has. In fact he is sick and tired of it. LOL As he's been working since before he was a teen I don't blame him! If I could somehow make as much (or more) as he does in a 40 hour work week he'd be more than happy to retire and take care of the kids and everything else that comes along with it while I was the one to go to work. Happy mylotting!

In your case, I think it is really reasonable that you enjoy not working full-time since you have kids and household chores. I think it is very hard for women to be businesswomen as well as mothers. Plus they have household stuff to worry about after work. As for me, I enjoy not working only if I am stressed out already or if I don't have work temporarily which is around 2 to 4 weeks only. After a month, if I don't have work to preoccupy myself, I think I will go crazy because of boredom. In a way, for me as a single person, work gives me fulfillment.

Hi, I am not sure of do i enjoy not working all day. But i am defintely sure of that i am not enjoy working. I just do my daily job to make money and to raise myself, my family. If i do not work any more, maybe i would enjoy not working and doing something i like at the start. But in a long time, i would be bored of not working. What i want is just a balance. Happy mylotting!

yes i meet same problem with you . when i was ill i want to work but i cannot . my healthy donot allow oit. it is not too good . i want to work .not want to stay at home for long time

I am single and i often hear my married female officemates wished that they stay at home for the kids. Perhaps, if you are single and an extrovert like me, you would want to be out all day but if you are married, your priorities are geared to family life. Whatever it is, it is all too much work. But if you love what you are doing, i guess everything would be just as manageable and easy as pie.

I am a software engineer. I love staying at home whenever I get time..