We earn and spend

Few years back , when we were still in college , Ashvin had exclaimed in horror " hey can you believe it, exactly a year from now we will be working ( or hunting for job )" That did not bothered me then. then i had no plans for higher studies. not being the top scorer of the class hardly had any idea what i would do after completing my engineering ( though my dad asked me to do higher studies , i thought i better stay away from it.) some people even scared me saying only top guys in their field would survive ( was i lucky? din knew what would be my field. so being in top few in that field was deferred) . the day finally arrived. we completed our engg. took our degree certificate and headed towards Bangalore . Job Hunting. One could see the confidence in everyone's face.
It's lil more than 3 years since i have been working as software engineer ( i still survive here . so i take the liberty to assume that i am in the list of top few in my field ). Follow the same routine . going to office every morning. coming home late. eat. sleep. of course i get time during weekend, but before i realise weekend has come, it's already gone. never felt i have completely used the free time i get during weekend. some times i think what we do is like a chain. we work hard for our client/customer's for some product which they inturn sell it to people ( us !!!??? ) . so we work , earn money and spend it to buy things which we ( or someone like us ) have developed. WOW. But the next moment i realized this is the way it had been through out. Only difference being we now spend more time to earn ( may be earn more ) than to spend what we have earned.