To negate as much shell-shock as possible, you'll have been kicking-off and growing your business on the side while still toiling at your 9 5.
Moreover, if the new government stands in the way of women achieving equal citizenship they will not simply return to life under the veil, toiling obediently in their homes.
If you have never been, you can probably still imagine the main street, wide verandahs, rows of heritage buildings and tributes to miners long dead and still toiling.
In the words of one: "I've never really thought much about how the clothes are made … I dread to think that my summer top may be made by some exhausted person toiling away for hours in some sweatshop".
Mr Kan is a self-made man, ascending into politics after years toiling in citizen movements.Yet his job is made all the harder after the botched performance of his predecessor's nine months in office.
The role of pay is not to get executives to work harder (most are workaholics already, toiling towards an appointment with the heart surgeon), but to recruit good managers and get them to take difficult decisions.
Modern bowlers who complain that cricket has become a batsman's game should perhaps be grateful they weren't toiling away in the time of George II.American independence, 1776 Just a year after the introduction of a third stump, England was hit by a shock with almost equal cultural significance: the loss of its American colony.
Weavers are heirs to centuries of tradition and skill, toiling for months to produce a single rug that will sell for a few hundred dollars.
But this seems mild compared with the feuding at Mizuho, where as many as 100 committees are toiling to reach a consensus on everything from coffee machines to accounting software.The three banks that are merging to create Mizuho claim that their job is made easier because, with three parties involved and not two, there is no chance of a hung vote.
Doubleday; 742 pages; $29.95How an investment bank concentrated on providing corporate advice to the rich and powerful a business model that relied not on its balance sheet but on the brains and wiles of the men toiling away in its famously ratty offices.
On past form, that person could be toiling in an obscure government post.
