In twelve pages the current status of leisure, how it has been significantly reduced, and the impacts upon less leisure time are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Boxes of Life and how to get out of them. The three boxes were really what most people understand as their goals and they rarely question these. They accept that
they go to school, and then to college and then perhaps graduate school and even further until they are ready to work. From the time they begin work, they rarely
have time for other pursuits or for more education. Their leisure time is reduced and they are considered to be a part of the rat race. Then, they retire and
have a lot of leisure time. The premise of the book by Bolles is that life necessarily need not be that way. Indeed, many people find themselves boxed in for
a period of about fifty years where they pursue the American dream through a job, or just have a job or two in order to survive. Today, the world of
work is more difficult than ever and with downsizing ever-present, those who do have jobs find themselves working longer and longer hours. Although historically people had gone from the days
where employers would demand almost slave like labor--some twelve to sixteenth hours per day--todays world of work is not all that much easier. Sure, people are not chained to factories,
but high priced executives, doctors, lawyers and people in high positions find themselves working sixty, seventy hours per week or more. People cannot afford to make ends meet with low
paying jobs, so they take two or three. Because they put in so many hours into work, they have little time for themselves. It was not really this way in
the middle of the twentieth century and while the world had come a long way since the advent of the industrial revolution, it seems that things have mushroomed. The trend