[4] Most workers spend eight or nine hours on the job. They work because they’re unavoidable. They need to make enough money for necessities, food, rent, clothing, transportation, tuition, and so on. They spend about one third of their lives at work, but they hate them. They complain and count the minutes for quitting time each day- or the days until their next vacation.

[3] With contrast, there are some people who actually enjoy work- in fact, they love to work. They spend many extra hours on the job each week and often take the work home with them. These workaholics are addicted to their jobs as other people are to drugs or alcohol.

[6] In some urban center, workaholism is so common that people do not consider it unusual they accept the lifestyle as normal. The government workers in Washington, D.C., for example, frequently work sixty to seventy hours a week. They didn't do this because they have to; they do it because they want to. Hundreds of workaholics in New York City try to go to work even in the famous blackout of 1977. There was no electricity- no air conditioning, elevators, or lights- and many people went to their offices anyway. They sat impatiently on the steps outside their office buildings and did paperwork or had the business meetings.

[7] Workaholism can be serious problem. Because true workaholics will rather work than do anything else, they probably don't know how to relax; that is, they might not enjoy movies, sports, or other type of entertainment. Most of all, they hate sitting and do nothing. The lives of workaholics are usually stressful, and these tension and worry can cause health problems such as heart attacks or stomach ulcers. In addition, typical workaholics don't pay much attention with their families. They spend little time with their children, and their marriages must end in divorce.

[7] Is workaholism always dangerous? Perhaps not. There are, certainly, people who work well with stress. Some study show that many workaholics have great energy and interest in life. Their work is so pleasure that they are actually very happy. For most workaholics, work and entertainment is the same thing. Their jobs provide them with a challenging; this keep them busy and creative. Other people retire from work at age sixty-five, so workaholics usually prefer not to quit. They are still enthusiastic about work- and life- in their eighties and nineties.

[7] Why workaholics enjoy their jobs so much? There are several advantages to work. Of course, they provides people with paychecks, and this is important. But it offers more than financial security. It provides people with self-confidence; they have a feeling of satisfaction when they've produce a challenging piece of work and are able to say, "I made that." Psychologists claimed that work gives people an identity; through participate in work, they get a sense of self and individualism. In contrast, most jobs provide people with a socially acceptable way to meet others. Perhaps some people are compulsive about their work, but their addiction seems to be safe- even an advantageous- one.