Why is being a workaholic exactly a bad thing?

Answer:
It's not bad to love your work and work long hours enjoying it. It IS bad if you neglect your family and friends and don't have a social life, though.You need BALANCE in your life so that when you are older and have to retire from work you have something else, or someONE else, to care about.

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it's not unless it's interfering with your personal life. other people can be affected by you working too much.

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Cuz theres more to life than work. You only get 1 life, might as well enjoy yourself along the way. You have less friends. Less time for family. It makes you a boring person. People dont like try-hards.

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If it interferes with a full, healthy, enjoyable life, it's a bad thing... unless I am your employer and you are behind on MY project.

Then, neglect everyone else, your own health and happiness, and work yourself to death :D

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Is not a bad thing unless your personal life is getting affect by it. I consider myself a workaholic becuase i go to school and have a part time.

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its not if your only taking time away from yourself. my husband is a workaholic also. all of our children are 16 and above and the children are pretty much doing their own thing now. where i have the problem is that EVERYDAY is a work day - we have our own business and i find myself here 7 days a week for some reason or another. i personaly would like to take a drive, or a mini-vacation or go see a movie. but if we plan to do something, then he gets busy and looses time, and where do u think that leaves me..here bored to death. thats why im on ByeDr.com !

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u dont spend time doing other important things such as having fun and hanging out w/ur friends

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If your single and on your own nothing really.
But if your married with kids then you won't see them much and make them feel like you don't love them anymore.

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The fact that you listed this under Mental Health tells me that you already know that it's a problem!!
It can become a form of OCD !!
Find a little balance so that those around you don't suffer and you actually have a life!

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It is not a bad thing if it works for you, and does not negatively affect anyone close to you. The only thing I can think that may be bad about it, is that you have less of a social life when you are always working, and as far as personality goes.you do not want to put all of your eggs in one basket. If you happen to lose your job, you have to have other interests to fall back on, such as hanging out with friends.

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WOW! wrong, wrong, wrong cause it can cause more damage to the brain if your have mental illness.

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