“ ’I’ll stop when I’ve earned six million dollars.’ Édouard explained that it was common...

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’I’ll stop when I’ve earned six million dollars.’ Édouard explained that it was common in his job. People worked very hard and then when they’d earned enough money they resigned and did something else or did nothing at all.

‘And then they’re happy?’ asked Hector.

Édouard thought very hard and said that the problem was that having worked that way for so many years a lot of people weren’t in a very good state when they stopped: they had health problems and some of them had got into the habit of taking harmful pills in order to be able to work longer hours, and they found it difficult to do without them. Many had got divorced because of all the meetings that prevented them from seeing their wives. They worried about money (because even when you’ve earned a lot of money you can still lose it, especially if you order wines like Édouard every day) and often they didn’t really know what to do with themselves because they’d never done anything else except work.

‘But some people cope very well,’ Édouard said.

‘Which ones?’ Hector asked.

‘The ones who continue,’ Édouard replied.
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