- You can stop playing any time you want, but at work you're bound by standard hours.
- You need to work to make money to buy food to eat. That introduces unavoidable stress into your work in the form that you know, if you don't work well enough, you'll get fired and then you'll starve. Or get your power cut. Or be kicked out of your house.
- You can always start again, no matter how badly you mess up. In a lot of workplaces, if you mess up a couple of times, you're fired and you can't try again.
In short, real work is less like Farming Simulator 2013 and more like nethack, but you only have one life.
- You need to work to make money to buy food to eat. That introduces unavoidable stress into your work in the form that you know, if you don't work well enough, you'll get fired and then you'll starve. Or get your power cut. Or be kicked out of your house.
- You can always start again, no matter how badly you mess up. In a lot of workplaces, if you mess up a couple of times, you're fired and you can't try again.
In short, real work is less like Farming Simulator 2013 and more like nethack, but you only have one life.