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The LOOPcast

We're Working Ourselves To Death | The Deep

The LOOPcast

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4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Deep with Erika Ahern is sponsored by Taylor Frigon Capital Management, serving clients at every stage of wealth: from first-time investors to high-net-worth families and organizations seeking full-service wealth guidance. Taylor Frigon provides institutional asset management solutions tailored to the needs of individuals, families and small businesses: https://cvote.it/taylorfrigon Americans work hard... perhaps too hard. Most work a 9-5 job five days a week, have two days to recover an...

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0:00.0

When you take a break, I'm working. If you just work as hard as you possibly can, for as long as you possibly can. What about work-life balance? I need 20s. Because that's the time to put in the hard work. And then just work like hell. Just work your face off. Nobody you know has actually created success without working their face off. You will get birds out. We work so hard, but there is no reward.

0:23.4

There is no joy to be had.

0:25.1

No job will ever make me happy

0:26.5

because regardless of how easy or difficult

0:28.6

it is perceived to be,

0:29.8

I will always end up in a state of burnout.

0:32.9

We work a lot in the United States.

0:35.5

It's kind of a stereotype.

0:37.2

What is it all for?

0:38.8

Why work?

0:39.7

The world's top golfer, Scotty Sheffler, has had quite the year, but he recently had a little

0:45.0

existential crisis on camera.

0:46.8

It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few

0:52.5

minutes.

0:53.1

It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling.

0:56.7

And like to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament.

1:04.1

And you win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there, it's such an amazing moment.

1:09.8

And then it's like, okay, now what are we going to eat for dinner?

1:13.5

You know, life goes on. It's a question every working adult asks, right? We hit the alarm on Monday morning and start the work week all over again.

1:22.5

We hate on work, but we seem, well, kind of addicted to it as well. There's the quintessential dad who works so

1:30.2

much he misses every ballgame in every 90s movie that we've ever made, or worse, he works so

1:35.8

hard that he goes crazy running a hotel, or there's the I have a stable job, but it's killing my

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