Interesting post. I think a dislike of work comes from the fact that many people are not only disgruntled about their job, but they're disgruntled about society as a whole, and see no point in contributing.
I'm not saying you feel this way, but after all, it is one of the many characteristics of a philospohical archetype that he dislikes regular "work" as well. For instance, thinking about the fact that humans are just mere life forms that are all set to die anyway. Thinking about the broader picture that, eventually, life on Earth will have to die out (or even change drastically very soon) anyway, make it all seem sometimes meaningless.
I myself have thought about giving up "work" but people rely on me, thus I can't. But, I have thought about doing the most menial job possible so long as I bring in just enough, barely enough, income, ala Kevin Spacey's character in "American Beauty."
Some musings on work:
http://www.zpub.com/notes/black-work.html Bob Black, an extreme anarchist perspective (obviously ,this will be seen as extreme)
http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html By Bertrand Russell. More appropriate for a physics forum, as russell is quoted a lot here.
Russell was a good example of someone who was able to do what he loved, write on philosophy and mathematics, and still make a lot of money -- he actually gave all the money he earned in mathematics to women's suffrage groups, then gained it all back and then some with the publication of History of Western Philosophy -- in much the same way some locally owned farm community or certain programmers have made a lot of money. However, I think these people are extremely rare.
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