"The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, ... - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work."
Thomas S. Szasz -
The Greatest "Psychiatrist" Of All Time.
It disgusts me intensely that "Work" to a Southern English English speaker almost always in this context denotes "something one gets paid for." It simply does not mean that.