New York City, N.Y. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Are you putting in more than 40 to 50 hours a week at work? Are you always thinking about work? Can you never turn it off? Well then you are a workaholic.
Deborah Hurley, Developmental Director at York Street Project, can't stop counting, calculating, and crunching the numbers. Hurley told Ivanhoe, "I would say I work hard physical, mental hours around the clock."
She pushes hard raising money for the non-profit she works for. Last year she increased their revenue by 20 percent, bringing in 890,000 dollars. "I'm thinking about Monday morning, what we have to do, and how the week is going to unfold," Hurley told Ivanhoe.
Jodi Mercedes helps her customers relax, but for her, building Haven Spa from scratch and maintaining it for 17 years through marriage and divorce has not always been a Zen experience. "I've always been very driven, if I have a goal and I set my mind to it, then that's what I go for," Mercedes told Ivanhoe.
Interpersonal Relationship Expert, Gilda Carle, PhD, told Ivanhoe, "The sign of a workaholic is anybody who works, works, works to the exclusion of everything else."
Women especially need to watch out says Carle. She wrote the book "Don't Bet on the Prince" which suggests women today should depend on themselves, not the prince and that some are pushing too hard.
Carle told Ivanhoe, "So often time women go out of their way and over function, as I call it, and do much, much, much, too much."
Professor Gilda Carle offers this advice for workaholics, stick to what you need to achieve your own goals, not someone else's. And reward yourself for new, healthier behaviors.
So working hard may be your path to being the boss or it may be your downfall, you choose!
Another sign is if nothing in the world satisfies you as much as work, or if all your friends are somehow associated with work.
Contributors to this news report include: Vanessa Tyler, Field Producer; Mary Stufano, Assistant Producer; Jonathon Proctor, Videographer and Jamie Koczan, Editor.