I go with the very basic Tom Sawyer whitewashing-the-fence definition: If you have to do it, it's work; if you don't, it isn't. For example, I love doing massage, such that I've gone to some effort to bring my table to the beach, the mountains, the desert, etc, for the sake of giving massage to strangers. But I also perform massage as work, i.e., I show up to give massage for a specific amount of time to a specific person, because that person is paying me to do so. I may well enjoy it very much, but then it's "work."
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:21 pm (UTC)