Working For a Living

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Work outlives us. It reminds me of when I used to take a vacation from my government job and when I returned, the work was still there, just in a bigger pile. Maybe you can relate. No one wanted my phone calls, so I had to hear complaining when I left and when I came back. Sometimes it didn’t pay to go on vacation because coming back to that big pile was a nightmare, and no one else took care of it in my absence. Even when we retire or quit a job for…