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For some people, work is the ultimate four-letter-word. For the Workaholic, it is quite the opposite.

The Workaholic eats, sleeps and thinks work and couldn’t stop it if he wanted to. Just like the Mouse, the Workaholic’s behaviour is useful to others and therefore accepted as positive, although for the Workaholic, it is self-destructive. There are people who work hard, but that is not the same thing as being a Workaholic.

Workaholics have made work their only interest in life and, if there is nothing to do, they will create something to do. Workaholics are incapable of relaxing because they do not really want to relax. Relaxation to them is a waste of precious time when they could be working on that new contract.

Women Workaholics are often found in the middle echelons of companies, and they become Workaholics because of an inner pressure to have to be better than male colleagues in order to be accepted by them.

Workaholics will not be stopped by anything or anyone: while they are still in hospital recovering from a stress-induced heart attack, they already have arranged for a telephone by their bed and get a collaborator from the office to smuggle in the latest files ‘… on the Bramble and Lawson case, just so that I can stay on top of things’. They spend the first half of their lives ruining their health to make money, and then they spend the second half paying out that money to get their health back. It simply does not make sense, does it?