time moves regardless, and life is a game of its management. jobs are a way of converting time into a storable form--money. a while later this money is then spent, a deconversion into time as we wish to experience. so while the world moves on around us, we as individuals may not be able to experience it in the way we want, if we do not have time--money in the bank.
each person also spends time differently, or utilises time in his own currency. it is therefore all the more necessary that each man earn his own wage so that he can spend according to his will. this explains the necessity for jobs in the cycles of life. but this fact does not deny the existence of jobless men. should one neglect earning his own time, then his inevitable expenditure of it necessarily involves sponsorship by a benefactor, a second party willing or unwilling.
as lifespan increases, one wonders how much work one has to put in to create sufficient storage for retirement. it is already meaningless as it is in the current situation where people work for a third of the day, sleep for another third, and only have a third left to share between fulfillment other duties and personal time--the reason for work in the first place. it just does not seem like a valuable trade for effort if the time spent earning does not at least equal the time earned.
therein lies the key to happiness: at the end of the day, we must always have our eye on the meaning of our toil, lest toil become our meaning. time spent doing things we love to do must at least equal the time spent doing things we have to do. truly happy and successful people always have this in common, be it having disproportionately high paying jobs, or having jobs which they dont consider as jobs.
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