Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.
Tom HodgkinsonOften, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
Tom HodgkinsonLong weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?
Tom HodgkinsonAs the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.
Tom Hodgkinson