if you've got nothing of meaning to do (outside of work) you'll get bored. you might even have something of meaning that isn't going well (like a writing career taking a long time to get off the ground) and you'll long for the joy of work. but its just a cheap out, a safety net that we just lay down on. you know, we never come near the tightrope... we don't even bother to start climbing the ladder. we just lean over and fall on our sides in the net and bitch about how nice it must be to try walking across that wire, when in all actuality if we don't snap out of it we'll never climb more than three steps up the ladder.