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Is work addiction-workaholic a real problem or is it a blessing?

As I get older and do the transition from a student to an actual working person, I start to think what makes a person a workaholic. And when I think about someone who is a workaholic, I think that they make sacrifices for their career for their job. But I truly believe that in order to be successful in whatever you do ,you have to make sacrifices. It’s like that in everything you do in order to have a good relationship you have to make sacrifices, in order to get slim and in shape and you have to make sacrifices. So the question is what sacrifices are you willing to make and what is more important to you in your own life. Is it relationships? Is it career ? Is it health? Is it creativity? So it really comes down to what life is to you. Some people think it’s worth to sacrifice everything for a relationship. Though other people think the only sacrifice someone needs to do is that in order to get a healthy body. “Healthy body, healthy mind, healthy soul, healthy life !” So why not put a job, a career. as something important to you. If you know you can get whatever you want in life if you try why wouldn’t you try? If you knew you could get to the top? It’s guaranteed that you will succeed if you try and try and try again and fail and succeed. How I see it it’s that work will never be done. You can always better yourself even if you have the least stressful or difficult task to do at your job you can always make room for improvement. So when I sit and think oh, I did my tasks for work today it doesn’t mean that I don’t have work to do. It just means I did the least amount of work expected from me. Work will never be finished. So basically a workaholic is someone who always tries to improve and does the sacrifices that are required to do so. I mean not everyone will see that he’s trying to improve himself, because of the sacrifices he makes. The sacrifices will eventually hurt other parts of the person’s life, and he, or she will be responsible to identify the hurt and try to find out if the sacrifice is worth the hurt. What are your thoughts on this?