In the following sentence

> 仕事が忙しすぎるのも考えものだけど、時間が余るのもなぁ

what does のも mean?

Thank you very much.
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What does のも mean in 仕事が忙しすぎるのも考えものだけど、時間が余るのもなぁ?
Put simply, the の after 忙しすぎる and 余る is acting to convert those verbs to
nouns, and the も is acting in the sense of "also" (like in クッキーも食べたい, "I want
to eat a cookie too").

こと(事）can also be used to treat a verb as a noun, but it has a more formal ring
to me.

I haven't seen the word 考えもの used too often, but here is a guess at
translating that sentence.

> I think being too busy isn't ideal, but neither is having too much free
> time.
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You can think of it is a combination of the normalizer (の) which changes the
previous verb or sentence into a noun phrase and the particle (も) meaning
"also" or "too" which is connecting the two following phrases.

  1. 仕事が忙しすぎるの (Working being too busy) + も

  2. 時間が余るの (Having too much time) + も

Combining the two you get: "Work being too busy is something to think about,
but having too much time is also"
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