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My first job out of engineering college was in the oilfield working continuous days on (on good days it was the on-paper 12 hour shift).Working in heavy industries (akin I’m sure healthcare or childcare) makes one permanently cynical of individually flexible work ideologies.
A relationship with “work” that orients primarily to a carefully defined notion of individual optionality and indulgence throws a growing shadow.Your life is not the answer to “how do I get to do whatever I want to in every moment?”Rather, it’s “how may I minimize neglect?”
Any lifestyle that affords a pre-industrial scale of doing nothing while transparently enjoying the tremendous privilege of that scale is in a comfortable spot on a pyramid, or at least heavily subsidized by those accepting of work as duty (possibly your past self paid this out).
Test your philosophies about work with power plant operators, nurses, daycare employees and farmers. If they pass muster, I’m excited to hear them out, because I’m not for a moment suggesting that we can’t improve upon things always.