I could not agree with you more Malcontent. Whenever I try to explain this to someone, they just act annoyed. Tell me I'm just lazy or that I haven't found a passion.

I just really enjoy my free time! Why would I want to spend the majority of my good life working for money, with no time to spend it, until I'm too old to want to spend it? If I can make good money working 20 hours a week, why would I want to work more than that for extra money that I don't need?

Right now I work full time to support myself through college... neither or which I want to do. I make minimum wage at a grocery store that absolutely works me to death and then I also have to deal with rude and just downright mean customers. It's so emotionally and physically exhausting. It makes me just want to sleep when I get home. As for a future career, I'm having a hard time deciding because of the "40 hour work week" norm. In fact, most professionals in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics/Medicine) work wayyy more than that. So much so that the 40 hour work week for a lot of professionals is actually like part time work for them. That is so sad to me.

I am a woman, so I have the advantage of being able to decide to be a stay-at-home mom, but I have never liked kids and do not want them... so the next best option is a career that lets you work part-time or telecommute. Nursing, medical lab, graphic design, web development, etc. I still haven't decided which nail to put in my coffin of "life" though...