You might have a heavy job and think why should I read. For one thing, it is stress-relieving to read. On the one hand, you can acquire knowledge about how you can cope with your challenges at work in a more comfortable way. On the one hand, there are very funny books such as Wilt by Tom Sharpe and The Forest of the Hanged Foxes by Aarto Paasilinna. On the one hand, you can gain new perspectives on what constitutes a good exercise of power so that you can criticize today's politicians and/or business leaders.
Books can be a wonderful way to spend time with your children while giving them more chances in life.
Books offer opportunities for endless and boundless inner adventures while exploring the outside world, your and others' souls, and other galaxies within them.
On the one hand, such books may give you the tools to make a career or get involved politically. Many books are about how to have a happy life and it can be pleasant and rewarding. If you have a problem at work or in your private life, all you have to do is search for it in the library catalog or on a bookstore site such as Bokus. If you read several books on the same subject, you may be able to write a better book on the subject yourself where you add your own thoughts and ideas.
Educating yourself is not just about long-term pain. If you learn to like studying, a whole path of possibilities opens up just by sitting comfortably and focusing on knowledge. The more you read, the easier it gets.
Then not everyone has to become a civil engineer. You can get much better conditions at work and a higher salary just by studying some shorter additional training as a truck driver, wine expert or something else.
The first book can be a bit of brain exercise, but after a while your brain muscles become stronger just like the body's during regular sports and after a while it may happen that you want more challenges or that you want to challenge others with facts and ideas you have come up with yourself.