&gt;<i>But that doesn&#x27;t mean the alternative—pure idle leisure—is that great either. Doing nothing sounds awesome when you&#x27;re burnt out, but after a week or two of it, most people will start chewing on the wallpaper.</i><p>That&#x27;s because people have been conditioned to not do anything significant out of their jobs -- except maybe from some tame passtimes that get boring soon.<p>But there&#x27;s a universe of things to do, and stuff to do with job-level concentration+personal freedom to do them as you like, if you don&#x27;t have to work on some 9-5 job.