The Japanese have a name for it. It's called karoshi, or death by overwork. In the efforts to make Japan the world's most productive nation, some Japanese sacrificed family life as well as their own lives. According to some reports, the death toll has been as high as ten thousand per year. These people are driven by the corporate leadership to routinely work overtime, take little or no vacation, work weekends, ignore physical signs of stress and never complain.
Heartbroken families admit the price for gaining the world's admiration is too high.
About the Trap Management consultants contend that although workaholics may work a great deal, they are not always working. Some actually avoid work, some work in obsessive spurts, others procrastinate. A job or career may not be the workaholic's primary focus, since work addicts include the unemployed, underemployed or retired. The workaholic is driven to do too much, care too much and rush too much. Eventually, I misconstrued this verse to mean I should fill each minute of every day with activity and accomplishment.