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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Paid work can’t define purpose or value of a human being[/b], it’s just a way to pay bills. That being said, in this society and economy, keep one foot in paid work, even if you want to and can afford to stay home. Not only because marriages are disposable and lives are unpredictable but because society judges your value per paid work hours. Stepford workers want conformity. [/quote]

Journalism didn't define purpose for Hunter S Thompson? Physics and educating didn't define purpose for Richard Feynman? You looked at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and thought to yourself "No purpose of value here, just a way to pay the bills."

Your acquaintances volunteering themselves for purpose-less jobs isn't a universal definition of 'work'.  [/quote]

+1.  That seemed like a weird comment to make following the one about SAHM married to a surgeon.  I think both of them are defined by their work.  [/quote]

I have kids and I find people who go on about how having kids is the only way to have meaning come across as protesting too much.

Subsuming your entire personality on being a parent sounds like a recipe for disaster.  The reality is that you're building an independent person who's going to go off and have their own life.  And so it's also important to have your own as well.  What that looks like can be up to you.  [/quote]

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