Choices Between Working and Living

Working is a must to all adults to make living. As an mature person, I have to make priorities of what I must do first, second, and so, and make choices, considering professional and personal matters, based on calculations of risk and all. Life is a choice. I might have only been working in with a company for one year now, but I really know that working is a non-stopping activity. It goes round and round; jobs come and go, and come again sometimes later unpredictably.

Mita Diran, a young copywriter for a private company, chose to put her professional life on top of her list. She had not stopped working for 30 hours (according to her last tweet) until the angel of death put a stop to her career, and life. She consumed doses of caffeine to provide her with energy she needed to stay awake the whole time which caused her liver to deny more activities. She was just so near to make it to the holiday weeks later this year.

Mita's Last Tweet Showed That She's Not Been Sleeping Lately

Mita is just one individual of thousands who put their health aside of work. This is an example of how bad management in a company did their work. Companies might benefit from the competition between hardworking employees. However, they did not provide employees with healthy working environment.

Individuals should make priorities and made choices in their work and personal life. Work to live, or live to work. It's your call. My choice: I work to live a healthy and happy life.

sources:

http://www.venusbuzz.com/archives/60479/indonesian-copywriter-dies-overworked/

http://health.kompas.com/read/2013/12/16/1106346/Lembur.30.Jam.Picu.Kematian.Seorang.Copywriter.Muda