leff@smu.UUCP (11/26/83)
#N:smu:20300002:000:1040 smu!leff Nov 25 14:10:00 1983 A recent comment in net.singles said that an employee hired people who were unhappily married as they would work a lot to avoid the situation at home. Why is it that some people have problems at home seem to lapse into workaholism something that is less socially destructive than lets say alcoholism or becoming ineffective. Why is it that some people can drown their troubles by concentrating on their work while for most people, domestic or personal problems destroy or at least hamper their working effectiveness. For single people who are lonely, why do some drown their troubles by hacking away in a "computer room on Thanksgiving" while others go to bars and drink themselves into a stupor. Note some people may get useful work done on the Thanksgiving. Others may just waste time by playing games, writing or reading the net or if they are 'doing work' may be so distracted that they don't see their bugs or worse make drastic editing mistakes that cause them to loose the work done previously, i. e. become counterproductive.