The Workaholic
--excerpt from Harvard Business Review
Many have anxiety-driven, addictive personalities, choosing work over and above family, spiritual growth, sports, hobbies, love, or friendship. Of course, workaholism has degrees of severity: There are those people who love their jobs and work long hours without suffering negative consequences. But acute workaholics are like hamsters on a wheel, laboring relentlessly to finish endless daily tasks. Typically extroverts hooked on activity and location, severe workaholics are far more likely to suffer from burnout, stress, and the attendant physical problems-- chronic fatigue, heart disease, high blood pressure, and so on. Unfortunately, most companies continue o reward wokaholism.