[Caursedus]

I'm semi-retired, not 100% retired, I still operate my empire from home, only it only takes me 2 or 3 hours a week. All I'm saying is to many thai men spend to many hours working, with out any balance in there lives, I see many men who work long hours and never spend time with there families, also many western men never get to know there children well and then there wife leaves them, and they end up working even more hours to pay for a house that they will never use, a wife that they will rarely see and children, that they will only have 4% access to in a week. Men need more of a balance between working life, play and family life. What I see, thai men doing at this point in time is working long hours, with no play, with a very small amount of family time. All work and no play is OK if you are inlove with your job and you don't have a life, but if you look at the staistics in the west, only 30% of men have a professional skilled job or a semi skilled job like a trade, the other 70% of men actualy work in boring drudgeries that are not stimulating at all. Now in thailand where there are a lot more process workers in factories which are even more boring jobs, like making clothes on a sewing machine 14 hours a day 7 days a week, then I think I would preffer to have a bit of a break, and just work 7 hours a day on a machine and let the wife spend the other 7 hours a day at work, giving me if I was a Thai man a little bit of variety and spending more time with my children, even if that is just cooking the meal, then going to the park and playing with the children