Working to Live or Living to Work?

The concept of work and its role in a human’s life has always been somehow controversial in whether job is a ‘need to’ or a ‘want to’. The whole American dream is by its nature based on this contradiction as one’s achievement is measured not by an existing standard (as it doesn’t really exist) but by one’s personal goals, in other words, whether one does what he wants to and earns a decent amount of money for it or whether one works to support oneself and does what he likes as a hobby.