That's weird though, because you are basically saying that you wish to be controlled by divine magic, instead of making your own choices - such as ignoring religion all together and not be part of a fanatic group.
When Freya goes around and makes you her slave you might enjoy it, but not out of your free will.
Gods meddling with mortals such as us is exactly what shoudn't happen, because we end up being irrational.
But that's still the "short sweet trip" when you live for an eternity. It's like vacation that ends once they mess up.So to the gods, it's less a short sweet trip and more "I'm immigrating from my shitty country to a nicer country. I hope I never get deported back to my shitty country."
They don't have to work on earth, their children provide them with any and everything they need to do whatever they want to do. At least that's the case for most of the gods.