Maybe because they hate their job and job environment so much they have to go full on into the work to keep them distracted on how terrible it is. And as they get more and more into the job they hate where their life is going and have to go even more into the job to avoid realization on how terrible their life have become.
And it just goes on like that into a horrible spiral of misery alienating them from what they truly like in life (their true friends etc) because compared to what they actually have to deal with on a daily basis is so much less.
There's a book by Robert Ardrey, the territorial imperative - available online here http://www.ditext.com/ardrey/imperative/imperative.html that goes into this at length, how human and animal groups define themselves not so much by their members as by their opponents.
The science is apparently a bit iffy and out of date but it's a good read.
This happens to me if I feel totally unimportant & depressed. You go into the daily monotony until it becomes all that you are. At some point you just realize the boring rut you are in is all that defines you. Then you have to decide to leap out of it with all of the discomfort that comes with it, or not to
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And it just goes on like that into a horrible spiral of misery alienating them from what they truly like in life (their true friends etc) because compared to what they actually have to deal with on a daily basis is so much less.
Unfullfilling work really is a nightmare.
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that goes into this at length, how human and animal groups define themselves not so much by their members as by their opponents.
The science is apparently a bit iffy and out of date but it's a good read.
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