Workahol

Workahol is not what you do at your job. It is also not what you do to forget about your job. Workahol is anything that you feel intensely compelled to do, outside of what you "need" to do. And it's relationship with the individual is just as strange, if not more stange, than it's suffix-namesake: alcohol.

You have, inside of you, a spinning orb of possible actions. Do you do something neccesary, like something to make money or some chore, or do you indulge in workahol? The priorities spin as such:

Feed yourself

Rest yourself

Feed the cat

Do laundry

Entertain yourself

Work

And with that, work is either embraced, or left behind and everything re-cycles. Workahol is not naturally addictive. It takes alot of will to commit yourself to something that is basically pointless in the short-run, with the promise that it will pay off in the long-run.

But that is exactly what the workaholic does. He has introduced in himself, through sheer will alone, the concept of "putting the work in" and he knows that if it is ignored, it will introduce itself in his natural cycle more and more often. At first he thinks "what the fuck ever" but in time he thinks "better to get it out of the way". Soon, he completes work as a matter of habit, and he is then a workaholic. Unknown to him, work is being completed at a rate he had never before seen.