I've definitely returned to hagwon work – I put in 11 hours yesterday. It's going to be a long week.
But then, as people know, I have workaholic tendencies, given the right motivational structures. The public school job was structured in such a way that workaholism was essentially irrelevant if not downright impossible, and all those idle hours took a weird kind of toll on my psyche, maybe. I seem to seek out and/or prefer the psychic toll exacted by working too much over that correlated with working too little. Is this virtue? I actually don't think so. It's escapism and reality-avoidance, mostly. Just like those years in Burbank, the 80 hour weeks. The year in Long Beach / Newport Beach took it a step too far, and the 100 hour workweek was unsustainable.
OK, this is rambling and not going anywhere and vaguely self-hating. Whatever.
It seems to me that a hypothetical society peopled exclusively by those preferring over-idleness to over-work would tend towards decline, atrophy, decay, death.
So maybe it is not an individual virtue, but a collective one it must be?