Why do I do what I do???

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
(Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 ESV)
Work is a four-letter word.  But that does not make it evil.  In fact, we know that God created us to use our minds and hands to be creative like He is.  But like everything else, sin has entered the world.  That includes why we work, and what we do with our work.  Our work can consume us, becoming the driving force behind our lives, ignoring the relationship with the One who made us to work. It can also team up with envy of others, where we are always striving to have more and look better than our neighbors.  We don't want to "keep up with the Jones's; we want to fly right past them with our noses in the air.  The preacher her is by no means downgrading the work of our hands; he is asking us to evaluate why we do what we do.  Is it to take up our place in the wonderful world God has made for us to enjoy before Him?