Scott Adams

Right.

So when you hit your factory programing, there's a social nature and not social nature.

so most men will garner their social connections most of their life through their work if you take away their work you take away their social connections you can only go to the golf course so often and then it's the usual suspects there more men like you that have been retired and you don't have any purpose and it tends to go down very quickly i can say the same thing about women

Where, you know, they have an afternoon wine and then all of a sudden it's wine all day long and then they sink into this, I don't have any meaning or purpose in my life.

And so, again, one of the reasons I'm trying to write this, some of the themes in the series is to help prepare what does it look like when I don't define myself by my job?

You know, what does it look like?

You know, it's only been about 200 years, 300 years that we've totally cemented our identity to our job.

Now, throughout history, we had guilds within our families.

In fact, our names were even tied to, you know, Goldsmiths, Cooper, things like that.

You know, the jobs that our family did.

But they were so intricated into our lives

that there was no separation between the job and what you did.

It was so kind of wrapped up.

We don't have that same sort of thing, although some people bring their work home.

We have a separation between what we do and what we do at home, but we define ourselves by how we produce in our life.

Am I making enough money?

Who am I comparing myself with?

A lot of folks get on the life bandwagon after coming out of university.

comparing themselves to their peer group.

Like, you know, am I making as much money as this person?