More like the French
You can ‘live to work’, or ‘work to live’. The latter is definitely the case in France, where there’s now “a twelfth nationwide day of protests against a bill that will make the French work longer”:
“Some trains will be cancelled, and strike actions can also be expected among refinery workers, garbage collectors and teachers, at a time when opinion polls show a wide majority of voters still oppose pushing retirement age by two years to 64.