Real life is working through your issues, not running from them.
But for most of us life does not work like that.
Your life is working better than it's worked since I met you.
However, it turned out to be a difficult beginning in life working long hours.
Over my professional life working in health and social care I have seen lot of changes.
"Everyone has to make their life work the way they can," he said.
She spent the last 20 years of her life working the farm.
He'd had a good life working on the land that he loved.
To be driven by need is just how life works.
That's one of the general patterns for how life works.