Does your office or workplace feel like home to you? Do you spend more time there than in your actual living space? Are the tasks given to you by your employer endless, requiring more time than you have to fulfill? If these seem like familiar circumstances then you may be a compulsive over-worker, what other people may people refer to as a workaholic. The term first came to be in 1968 when Wayne E. Oates wrote about ‘workaholism’ in a magazine whose readership consisted of men like him – Southern Baptist ministers. He later came to clarify and define the term thusly; “the compulsion or the uncontrollable need to work incessantly.” As a country we have since come to embrace the new word, … Read entire article »