So Far, This Week Sucks or Man, Why'd I Agree to Work so Much?

I remember when I was taking some business classes and one of the theorists said that mankind is inherently lazy and does not want to work. At the time I thought "that's kinda harsh, not ALL people are lazy." Well time and the wisdom from age have given me a new perspective. It's not that people are necessarily lazy, although some certainly are, it's just that man wasn't designed to have to work a shitty job for 40 hours a week. To quote "Office Space" we weren't put on this earth to work in a cubicle 5 days a week. There are better things to do on this planet. We aren't here for very long, so we should be enjoying ourselves. Unfortunately, in today's modern society, we have something called money. This thing called money is what runs everything. Stuff costs money and in order to be able to acquire said stuff, you need to have a lot of this money. In fact, just in order to eat and have a roof over your head, you need money. The social safety net does not give enough money to meet all your needs, so you must find a job. Here is a sad fact about "jobs." They all suck in some form or another. It's only when you are lucky enough to be paid for doing what you love to do that a job is worthwhile. Most people never get a chance to do that. They have to suffer through something that, while maybe slightly enjoyable, is not what they love to do. Take my current situation for example. I work at Greyhound. While it can be an enjoyable experience sometimes (no customers to deal with, fairly long breaks, nothing too complicated to remember) it can also suck ass sometimes (repetitive routines, monotony of same thing everyday). That is why I will never work it full time. I would not/could not handle a continuous 40 hour work week there. It's kinda soul crushing. The people that do work there 40 hours a week get sucked in by the fact that you get paid really well and you never have to take anything home. I can envisage myself working part time there (no more than 30 hours a week EVER, but preferred around 20-25) for a few years while I try to get a career doing what I love, creating things (movies, games, etc) But I would NEVER take a full time position there.
Where am I going with all of this.... well this week I work 41 hours at Greyhound. At the time I agreed to do this, I was all "sweet! money!" Now I remember why I don't want to work a regular full time job EVER. It's not that I'm lazy as that theorist said, it's that 40 hours leaves no real time for anything else! Oh sure, you have a couple of days off, but those are usually spent doing all the errands that you had no time for during the work week... either that, or resting up. I think we should NEVER have to work more than... I don't know... 32 hours a week. Jobs should just pay better and things should not cost any more... Yeah, I know... economics doesn't really work that way..... but why are we slaves to theories that were thought up by opium addicts? Seriously, most economics theories NEVER work to begin with... they require a closed system which can never exist in the real world. So why are we forced to accept these crazy theories.... Why are we slaves to them... Why can't a 32 hour work week with 6 weeks MANDATORY paid vacation work? There is no REAL reason.. only theories. I think we should give it a shot. The Kellogg's factory in Battle Creek, Michigan used to have 32 hour work weeks where the employees were paid as if they worked 40 hours. The city also used to have the lowest crime rate in all of the U.S. It also had a thriving arts community, vibrant social scene, and generally happier people. Then the 80's came and all that changed. The factory increased its work week to 40 hours and the crime rate almost instantly went up drastically. Arts and entertainment went down and people became angrier. (I got all this from the book "Affluenza: The all-consuming epidemic) What all this can teach us is that people NEED more free time to do with as they please. With more of said time, they will live better and happier lives. Where was I going again... oh yeah... I value my free time a lot. Even if I don't do anything other than sit around and watch movies. I don't like working 40+ hours because I am not allowed to spend enough time "living." I hope to never have to "work" 40 hours a week in my whole life. (Working on creative projects does not count as work... I could work on a movie or something 40+ hours a week.) This week only serves to reinforce my wish. I have literally no real time to do anything... It's get up, shower, eat, work, come home, eat, sleep.... With only tiny amounts of time inbetween to relax... It sucks ass.
In reading my weird and crazy opinions, you might have thought something like "live in the real world buddy" or "you're on goof balls" and that's fine. Everyone is entitled to their own ideas. Mine are that the world does not have to function the way it is now. We are always told that the markets are the driving force in the world... why does that have to be? Are the markets alive? Do the markets feel? Do the markets love? Do the market die? No, they do none of these things. The world should be run by PEOPLE, not abstract concepts and the laws of consumption. We need to enact fundamental change here. Life is becoming emptier while we all live only to work and consume. We in North America especially, are pushing things toward the brink. Unfortunately, as long as the pursuit of more and more money is the driving force in the world, things will never get better.
Just to make myself a little more clear.. I like things as much as the next person... I have something like 220 DVD's after all... (Look at the link to see what they all are!) I understand that they do not make me a "full" person. They are just things after all. It's the relationships that make me who I am. It's the tremendous people that I know and the interesting things that I see and hear from a wide variety of sources that enrich my life. I just can't get into the whole "me first" and "MORE money" ways of life. It seems so vapid and soulless. I would rather laze around with friends then work my ass off to make enough money to buy the newest Porsche. Does this make me lazy? I don't think so... I think this makes me human.