I hope people on SN are not opposed to hearing a traditional Christian perspective.

The Bible says God created man and woman in his image, and that God Himself is a worker, taking six days to create the universe and taking the seventh day to rest.

Indeed, God created man to participate in the cultivation of his works. Genesis 2 says (paraphrasing), "When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant had yet sprung up... because there was no man to work the ground... the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life... the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it."

So, from the very beginning, humans were created by God to cultivate his work, transforming resources from a lower valued, raw state to a higher valued, developed state. Thus, Christian economic thought places a high spiritual value on vocation. Work is not something to be avoided, but is fundamental to human nature (as is resting from the work).