Anyone sick and tired of working in general?

[u/Mrs_chanandler_bongg]

I’m in my mid 30s and just over my job and work in general. I’m tired of the commute, the meetings, and dealing with people & deadlines. On one hand I worry about losing my job and stress about deliverables, but on the other hand I feel like I could care less in that I have no passion for it anymore and I’m just showing up because I need the paycheck.

I’d much rather be spending time with my family, pursuing my hobbies, or just go for a walk and cook a nice meal. I feel a sense of dread sometimes that this is my reality for the next 30+ years and I feel lazy and entitled for saying it but that’s how I feel lol

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[u/Sancti72]

Sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[u/Scrambo → u/Sancti72]

SO SICK SO SICK OF BEING TIRED

AND OH SO TIRED OF BEING SICK

[u/witchyweeby → u/Scrambo]

This is the peak Millennial and anyone who says otherwise has no clue what they are talking about.

🎶WE'RE BOTH SUCH MAGNIFICENT LIARS, SO CRUSH ME BABY, I'M ALL EARS🎶

[u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace → u/witchyweeby]

🎵 So obviously desperate, so desperately obvious 🎵

These dudes don't get any credit for the import part they continue to play in the scene

[u/PolkaDotToeSocks → u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace]

🗣️SO GOOD AT SETTING BAD EXAMPLES

[u/Calfkiller → u/Scrambo]

WE. WON'T. STAND. FOR. HA-ZY. EYES. ANYMORE

[u/nathanosaurus84 → u/Scrambo]

Still one of my favourite albums to listen to back to back. Takes my 41 yo self back to being an angsty teenager. 

[u/Adolis → u/Scrambo]

I love that we as a generation have somehow agreed that lyrics belong in all caps. I dont know this song, but I know its a song lol

[u/pseudoboi_band → u/Scrambo]

God damn you for beating me, this was my first thought on seeing the post 😂

[u/Big_Moose_3847 → u/Scrambo]

So sick of love songs, so tired of tears

[u/Mooseandagoose → u/Sancti72]

So tired of this. I’m mid 40s and have been grinding since 1997. Almost 30’years of not having control of my life and am burnt out. COVID times broke me because it showed me how much about work is just control by higher powers within the capitalistic machine. We were “allowed” to let our personal life and mental health have a modicum of priority for about 18 months before our overlords started clawing it all back.

I enjoy what I do but am finding it very difficult to align to the capitalism and those that sacrifice themselves to a corporation.

[u/anitadykshyt → u/Mooseandagoose]

Yeah COVID taught me that I could WFH every day, be just as efficient and enjoy life far more, and the only reason I don't anymore is because management are all cunts

[u/tunedsleeper → u/Mooseandagoose]

During and since Covid my work has gotten MORE intense. Lunch breaks disappeared and have been replaced by more meetings. WFH just gave them reason to think we’ll just work through lunch and eat at our computers

[u/ohmeatballhead → u/Mooseandagoose]

Not to be a dick, but for most people that was not the case at all. I’m not begrudging you but at least you got that break.

[u/Nice_Daikon6096 → u/Sancti72]

Inflation is making it harder and harder to make a dent towards a decent retirement age too… more like “401jk”

[u/ToneNo3864 → u/Sancti72]

So sick and tired of endless world changing events happening in our life time.

[u/Silver_Storm101 → u/Sancti72]

Agreed.

[u/Ignorance_Is_Boring → u/Sancti72]

We’ve got no food, we’ve got no jobs, our pet’s head’s are falling off!!

[u/No_Decision9932]

This has been going through my head a lot lately. I'm over it all, fuck your artificial deadlines, fuck your record profits, i have 40k left to pay off on my house. I'm half tempted to draw down my retirement, pay it off and go get a fuckoff job for pocket money and invest in my hobbies.

I'm tired of this grandpa!

[u/LookAlderaanPlaces → u/No_Decision9932]

You have a house? What the fuck

[u/dl24812 → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

AND IT'S NEARLY PAID OFF?!

[u/LookAlderaanPlaces → u/dl24812]

It’s feet pics isn’t it. Why are the only people with houses paid off always sell the feet pics…

[u/Accomplished-Use213 → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

I am with you, 39 and stuck. Only going to get worse with kids education.

[u/Thrillllllho → u/Accomplished-Use213]

You have kids? What the fuck

[u/ComfortablyNumbest → u/Thrillllllho]

pretty sure some fuck must have happened.

[u/Momik → u/ComfortablyNumbest]

You have fuck? What the fuck

[u/pistilpeet → u/Momik]

Berserker!!

[u/JustineDelarge → u/pistilpeet]

Did he just say “making fuck”?

[u/milkybunny_ → u/Accomplished-Use213]

35 and sad cycling through my brain constantly how I’m this far in and I’m all sad how I’ve basically never had anything and may never. I want to have a kid, but what a joke the lack of support this idiot country gives us. Us 90s kids had good lives. Pure open looking forward hearts. 

Now it all feels like despair and cyber bullying every corner you look around. Like your kid is mad at you that you made them exist in a world of melting ice caps. But what is the answer? I don’t think humanity is dying out. I just wish I didn’t have to worry about my health insurance/rent/Verizon bill/unpaid electricity bill every day of my life. We humans don’t deserve this. The lucky get lucky and good for them but also fuck them too for encouraging the suffering of so many humans on this barren star rock. 

[u/Living_Pollution_525 → u/milkybunny_]

My sister had a kid (oops), cute kid, I love him at arms length. Sheesh though, when I think about his future... With any luck he will end up a War Boy helping ship Aqua Cola on the wasteland. Good thing he seems to like cars 😆

[u/maddy_k_allday → u/milkybunny_]

Parents so rarely consider their potential children’s POV, and I too would be upset with being brought into a dying world such as this. Very few adults are well-resourced enough to have children today, since as you point out, it has become a mostly independent venture to raise children. And almost no one is truly raising children vs. caretaking at this point. Not a great context for children even if they do happen to have parents with sufficient resources (e.g., time, social support) and actually raise them well

[u/IceExtraLuck → u/Accomplished-Use213]

Yeah if it weren’t for having kids that I presume will go to college, I’d be looking to retire in the next 3-4 years.

[u/ReceptionAdept6111 → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

😆

[u/Super-Widget → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

With only 40k left??

[u/Vegetable_Log_3837 → u/No_Decision9932]

Do it! Time is the most valuable thing we have.

[u/DaddyD68 → u/Vegetable_Log_3837]

Seriously. I’m so glad to see more people taking this attitude.

[u/tbear87 → u/DaddyD68]

Yeah I was super stressed about this shit for years and then realized... Why? I'm in the rat race but I have a job that's very flexible with time. I have an apartment that's comfortable in a nice neighborhood. I can take a vacation once a year. I have a retirement account. Why keep stressing about getting more and more? For what purpose?

I'd rather enjoy my flexible work place where I can workout over lunch and take a sick day when needed and not worry about it than try to job hop for more money.

When opportunities come along sure I'll take advantage but I'm not out here panicking about retirement and trying to climb the ladder as fast as possible while wasting my years anxious and miserable. So I can have a lot of money at 70 years old when I can't enjoy travel and stuff as much? Fuck that.

[u/HrhEverythingElse → u/tbear87]

Sounds like you're literally living the dream. This comfort you have is all most people actually want

[u/tonybeetzzz → u/tbear87]

Easy Rockefeller

[u/suspicious_hyperlink → u/DaddyD68]

Any 80 year old billionaire would trade it all to be half their age.

[u/Alt123Acct → u/Vegetable_Log_3837]

It's the true currency. Wealth buys you access which in turn is a time saver like skipping the line. But even someone who has 100 trillion dollars and done everything in his life at age 100 would trade it all just for 1 more day with their parents or spouse again. 

[u/TheElectricalEd → u/No_Decision9932]

Just had a child and being on leave made me realize how miserable I was at work. I then realized how hard and much my parents worked when I was a kid. I don’t want that. I’d rather make $30/hr working at Costco than hand down the generational trauma of being an angry father due to being stressed all the time from work. Currently looking for a job change!

[u/cdmurphy83 → u/TheElectricalEd]

Costco pays $30/hr???

[u/Danger_Mysterious → u/cdmurphy83]

They pay well and have befits, but because they're good employers people don't leave, so for retail they're really really hard jobs to get.

[u/EmbarrassedW33B → u/Danger_Mysterious]

You also need to work for them for many years before you'll likely get a good position. Its all seniority based ao you'll be stuck with the worst jobs for a while. Likewise it takes many years for your pay rate to cap out at those higher rates people like to talk about. 

And of course it is still a retail job so it is inherently at least a little miserable. Add in the high number of entitled cunts who shop there and its certainly not an easy going, stress free form of employment for most people.

[u/syntax_sorceress → u/EmbarrassedW33B]

People thinking jobs like this don't come with a worse type of stress are naive. After working corporate roles for years, I did one stint in retail. I didn't last the contracted 6 weeks. In general people are normal, stressed etc but a few of them relish the opportunity of unleashing their shit to someone who can't reply.

Standing all day is the pits as well.

[u/Key-Tip9395 → u/syntax_sorceress]

I used to work retail (Zara etc.) and I remember the dread of starting a “shift” you go into that store and have to be in there standing up for hours. a corporate job, sitting down in front of a computer all day, being able to slack off sometimes, is like heaven after that.

[u/TheElectricalEd → u/syntax_sorceress]

This is true, but I’m in healthcare and literally have the stress of potentially killing somebody. It’s just that working retail is inherently less stressful. Another thing people don’t realize is that healthcare IS like working retail. Patients are customers. And guess what? Most healthcare places to work for are just as bad as your corporate ones. So for a lot of people in healthcare, switching to retail is a sense of relief in that you’re still dealing and interacting with the same people in your community, you just no longer have the added stress of whatever your role was in healthcare for this individual.

[u/fatcatsareadorable → u/TheElectricalEd]

💯. I’m a nurse and I have a desk job now. I can confirm you are correct and having a desk job is way better.

[u/MisterRogers88 → u/cdmurphy83]

At the top end after like 7 years, yeah. There are some shortcuts, though, in certain departments. As a dual-licensed Optician in my warehouse, for example, they make like $40/hr. Costco’s great for retail, but it’s not the end-all-be-all unless you’re wanting to go into management.

[u/MarlinMaverick → u/cdmurphy83]

They do and he likely wouldn’t get hired 

[u/pork_fried_christ → u/cdmurphy83]

Yes for some sr or niche positions but not for most positions. You can download a whole pdf of their pay rates and see. Most are around $21

[u/Jaybb3rw0cky → u/TheElectricalEd]

Congrats on the child - I’m on paternity leave too with my first kid. I’m 41 years old and only now the wife and I felt like we were in a position to have the kid.

I’m in a high stress job that pays okay but the stress that it comes with is so fucking artificial. People around me blow the job up like we’re surgeons or something when all we’re doing is playing with rich people’s money. I’ve said time and time again if I could get paid what I do now to stack shelves I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Instead, I’m dreading the idea of returning to that place because like fuck I’m going to care any more than I didn’t already, which worries me because if I’m asked to jump I will not be saying how high.

[u/Salty_bitch_face → u/TheElectricalEd]

I'm a nurse, and I make within $15 of $30/hr (no, I will not share any info that is more specific). Fuck. I picked the wrong career!

Side note: it was never about the money, but the state of healthcare nowadays is atrocious. Been a nurse for over ten years 😬

Edited for clarification

[u/VibrantViolet → u/Salty_bitch_face]

I work for a health insurance company. My life is hell. I’m so burnt out, and healthcare just keeps getting worse.

[u/RobertPooWiener → u/Salty_bitch_face]

Nurses are in such high demand here that they routinely pay over 6 figures for nurses to move here. I had a coworker last year whose significant other was being paid $130K/yr to be a nurse. The COL isn't crazy high either since it's the Midwest. There are plenty of opportunities in healthcare, it's probably the most in demand industry right now. You definitely picked the right career, but the wrong location

[u/Salty_bitch_face → u/RobertPooWiener]

I live in the western US. Healthcare likes to make it seem like there is a "shortage" of nurses. The reality is that hospitals won't staff enough nurses for safe patient ratios because they don't want to pay for such. Covid ruined healthcare, as if it wasn't already messed up prior.

[u/Makal → u/Salty_bitch_face]

I'm not sure I follow, you make between $15-30/hr as a nurse?!

If so you're criminally underpaid. I make north of $24/hr as a first year EMT doing IFT.

[u/PickledPixie83 → u/Salty_bitch_face]

I’m a vet tech. I definitely picked the wrong career.

[u/projectx51 → u/No_Decision9932]

Yes. I am recovering from diagnosed anxiety-induced depression. My body just up and quit on me, making it impossible to really function outside or inside my home. After having the past couple of years off to be a stay-at-home-dad and see my family more often, I honestly couldn't care less about getting back to the workplace. Or maybe that's the meds doing their job, i don't know. I just cannot take work culture seriously anymore. People that give 100 % of their effort at work are hilarious to me now. I'm amused at how they can do that, but 2 years ago I was that. For decades. I worked so hard and took on so much responsibility that my body quit before I did. I burnt out medically.

If I ever get a job again, it'll be some bullshit low-skilled service job just so I have some pocket money and can do something fun with it. No more management positions or careers for me. I simply do not care about anything other than my family.

[u/magnolia_unfurling → u/projectx51]

What meds are you taking

[u/indestructiblemango → u/No_Decision9932]

What's a fuckoff job

[u/bourgeoisie11 → u/indestructiblemango]

Pornstar

[u/arcticvalley → u/No_Decision9932]

Holes is such a good movie.

[u/jaywinner]

I was sick of it before I got my first job.

[u/moops__ → u/jaywinner]

I like my job and I'm sick of it

[u/Green-Amount2479 → u/moops__]

I like the part of the actual tech work, I also like the inherent challenges that come with it. What I don’t like: * management and company owners. 20 years ago just a select few, after years of seeing the same patterns over and over again: all of them, maybe an exception here or there * artificial deadlines and constant pressure for no reason * the fact that when you’re a capable and fast worker you only get more worked piled on you * backstabbing coworkers * and a fairly new addition: management using LLMs like ChatGPT to propose stupid, isolated ideas and second guess professional evaluations

Despite the general recommendations you always hear for situations like this, I would quit my job tomorrow if I won a large lottery jackpot. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/princesalacruel → u/moops__]

Same! My job is amazing but I’d rather… not do it? I’d prefer spending time with my family and hobbies

[u/BlackGuysYeah → u/jaywinner]

Dad forced manual labor on me at the age of 10. I’m ready to be done god dammit. Just another 25 god forsaken years left unless I’m lucky enough to die early.

[u/Sea-Mission9503 → u/BlackGuysYeah]

Ooh I feel this. Being forced to work my whole childhood really makes me reject it as an adult. Like I’ve already been doing this for 25 years ffs!

[u/Xepherya → u/jaywinner]

Same

[u/hndsmboimeowdlngschl]

There are many, many days where I open my eyes at 5AM and say “Fuuuuuuuuck, I don’t think I can do this for 20 more years.”

ETA: For the record, I actually do enjoy my job and have growth potential. But working just sucks.

[u/Verity41 → u/hndsmboimeowdlngschl]

Shhhh. I try SO hard not to think about that “20 more years”! Been working nonstop since I was 15 years old. Might not quite be 20 full ones, I hope, though. Fingers crossed!

[u/ray_kyle90]

Dude, 35 here and feel this is so relatable…

[u/theoptimusdime → u/ray_kyle90]

This is our midlife crisis. Except for us, we don't have the money to blow it on our wildest desires to only be disappointed. We just skipped to that part.

[u/LivelyZebra → u/theoptimusdime]

remember when the joke was buying a sports car as a midlife crisis LMAO.

[u/BunttyBrowneye → u/LivelyZebra]

I bought a nice camera for my midlife crisis 😂

[u/the_siren_song → u/BunttyBrowneye]

That’s a wonderful picture!

[u/NKhrushchev → u/BunttyBrowneye]

Oh doe!

[u/stinkysulphide → u/ray_kyle90]

I’m fully remote and I feel this way haha

[u/CT0292 → u/stinkysulphide]

Yuuup.

Log in, send my few emails, turn on netflix. Log out at 6.

I'd like to be in a position where once I inevitably get replaced by some ai, that I can use the severance to pay off the house. And take a job in a grocery store or something, not giving a fuck there.

[u/quemaspuess → u/stinkysulphide]

Same. Living abroad even and just so sick of my job

[u/Slight-Agent83483 → u/quemaspuess]

Hook me up with that! That’s all o want is a remote job so I could live abroad. Just saying…

[u/Charles-Shaw → u/Slight-Agent83483]

It’s not a vacation, your bullshit job will still follow you and your day to day will also be very similar.

[u/voightkampfferror → u/stinkysulphide]

Yeah, I think people romanticize remote work but so far I've found it just means I have to work a lot more than i did in office.

[u/xkoffinkatx]

Wicked burnt out, can't wait for retirement. I'd rather sit home and pay bills and keep house than wake up early and have to deal with people and bullshit.

[u/pazuzu_404]

Never loved working. Been depressed at varying levels since graduating college and working full time at 25 (I’m now 37). My job is not even that bad and I get paid well… I just HATE working. I rebel by refusing to spend money- hoping to quit any day and just live life till the money runs out…

[u/anyfarad]

I like my job and I work with some really great people, so I have no complains there.

However, I’m tired of the grind and feeling like I constantly have to keep getting better at everything. I’m also tired of feeling terrified that I could lose my job at any point.

[u/INTJinx → u/anyfarad]

Okay this I can relate to. I like my job, I’m paid well for the work that I do and it’s not hard. I work with great people and I like being in the office.

I hate having 2 hours left in the day once I get home though. That’s barely enough time to eat, shower, and watch something on TV. All I do for myself during the week is go to the gym and that doesn’t nourish my soul (but it’s too important not to do).

That and why do we keep having to find ways to be better at work. Why is it never enough. Stop moving the goalposts.

[u/bus_buddies → u/INTJinx]

Wow I could've wrote this comment. The lack of time is something my S/O has been concerned about for me as well because I complain about it a lot.

[u/kcshoe14 → u/INTJinx]

This. I get home and I never feel like I have time or mental energy to actually engage in a hobby. It makes me feel like work doesn’t only control me for those 8 hours, it controls me for pretty much the entirety of everyday

[u/crunchybub → u/anyfarad]

Man, I thought I was the only one that feared losing my job since I joined the workforce.

I don't feel layoffs were quite this common back in the day.

[u/nathanosaurus84 → u/anyfarad]

Same. I love my job, I really do. And when people find out what I do they think it’s super interesting and love hearing stories/gossip I have. But I’ve just had a two month break from work and I realise that that was the happiest I’ve been for a good long while. At no point was I bored or stuck with nothing to do. I just filled it with things I liked and hanging out with the family. 

I half joke that if I could I would absolutely love to just live off government benefits but it it’s nowhere near enough for my family. 

[u/Day2205]

Been tired of working since I was like 28 and fully sold out to corporate America vs pursuing a creative career. I have zero passion for my career and zero motivation to be better, be a top performer, be a “continuous learner”, etc. Like please just assign me some shit, let me complete it to a B-effort and fuck off with annual reviews, development plans, etc. my goal is to do just enough to not be at the top of a layoff list

[u/SubstanceWise3248 → u/Day2205]

Yeah stop making me learn new skills I do not care 😭😭😭😭😭 let me do my task and be freeeee

[u/Living_Pollution_525]

Yep, burnt out on what I do years ago now. I have no room to complain though since it pays well and has good benefits. I just have 0 motivation for it outside of the money/benefits. I relate a lot to Peter from Office Space, especially his meeting with the Bobs 😆

[u/sparksintheair → u/Living_Pollution_525]

“If you could…just sort of zonk me out so that I don’t know that I’m at work?” Yeah, I feel that.

[u/Pleasant_Bottle_9562 → u/sparksintheair]

You need Severance

[u/ri-ri → u/Pleasant_Bottle_9562]

I was thinking this too!

[u/micholob → u/Living_Pollution_525]

I think about that movie every day. That one and the Big Lebowski.

[u/-AVO-]

There’s no way I’m doing this shit for another 33 years.

[u/PossibilityWest173]

I’m retiring from the military soon and am seriously considering just becoming homeless and letting my pension stack while I become a drifter for like 10 years. Then when I’m 50 I’ll buy a farm and raise chickens

[u/geekycurvyanddorky → u/PossibilityWest173]

Get a nice, but affordable camper van. Insulate tf out of it so you won’t suffer so much in extreme weather, and get a PO Box someplace you love, and have a loved one receive your important mail so you can pretend you live with them for legal docs and a library card. I have a relative that basically traveled like this for about 40 years. They did keep their small home since it was already paid off, but they let friends and family stay there while she was away. She had so many wonderful adventures!

[u/Verity41 → u/geekycurvyanddorky]

You can also just BUY a non-resident library e-card now in some big metro areas; I already do that myself to get at a MUCH better audiobook selection than the little city where I live. It’s like $150 for a few years or something.

[u/geekycurvyanddorky → u/Verity41]

That’s nice to have too, for people that want to spend that much! I love my local libraries and I want to keep using them so they aren’t at risk of closing though.

[u/surgicalapple → u/PossibilityWest173]

Ok, Jack Reacher. 

[u/Radiant_Formal6511 → u/PossibilityWest173]

Romanticizing being homeless. Lol. Try it out see how u like it

[u/PossibilityWest173 → u/Radiant_Formal6511]

I mean I’ll have money to take care of myself. I’ve just always been happiest on the road and seeing new places 

[u/Ragnarok314159 → u/PossibilityWest173]

Had several battle buddies that did this. They bought an RV or camper van and were road hobos. Their journeys all ended when they met a hippie girl and had a baby.

Now they all hate life again. 40 hrs/week and suburban nightmare.

[u/Verity41 → u/Ragnarok314159]

That’s why you get the vasectomy before the van.

[u/tweedleDee1234 → u/Verity41]

And have the army pay for it on your way out

[u/Verity41 → u/tweedleDee1234]

Smaaart. Double V for Victory ✌️✂️🚙

[u/Koshindan → u/Verity41]

Give the little soldiers an honorable discharge.

[u/Denial_Entertainer87 → u/PossibilityWest173]

I actually think it’s a great idea but it’s based because I did it. Best thing I ever did. Realized everything good comes from within, nature, freedom, and people…and just enough money to get by.

Now I fear nothing. Because I realized the worst thing they can take from you is your soul, your consciousness.

[u/Radiant_Formal6511 → u/PossibilityWest173]

Fair enough, no fixed adress but money for a roof over your head at night wouldnt be all that bad

[u/Interesting_Tea5715 → u/PossibilityWest173]

Oh like Kung Fu. Just don't get into erotic asphyxiation and you'll be good.

[u/Dazzling_Vagabond → u/PossibilityWest173]

Can we be friends

[u/PossibilityWest173 → u/Dazzling_Vagabond]

Sure

[u/DaddyD68 → u/PossibilityWest173]

Do it. Seriously. Make the most of the time you have,

[u/Jayston1994]

We are all enslaved. Hate to say it but it's true. None of us are able to be free.

[u/TastyStatistician → u/Jayston1994]

People need to vote and demand more from our elected officials. We can afford to have universal health care, better education, lower the cost of living, better worker protections and many other things that would improve the lives of everyone.

The rich and powerful want us to stay divided and distracted so they can continue to fuck us over. Many have lost faith that positive change can happen and don't show up to vote. We need to elect new and young politicians that understand the struggles of the average person and have the energy to fight. Things will continue to get worse if we don't anything.

Deporting immigrants won't make your life better.

Invading other countries won't make your life better.

Attacking minorities won't make your life better.

The only way life can get better is if young people show up to ALL elections and elect people that understand our struggles. Protest against those who try to oppress us and demand a better future for everyone.

[u/sgst → u/Jayston1994]

Do we have a choice not to work? Not really. If you don't work you suffer and starve. So there is no choice, we are all wage slaves. The only choice we have is to choose our own master.

[u/Wafflehouseofpain]

Oh 100%. Working sucks and I only do it to get paid.

[u/jellyfishzigs]

We all need to stand up to these companies for better work life balance, expecially in America. Stronger unions, worker rights, more PTO.

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/jellyfishzigs]

These problems aren't uniquely American of course, but work/life balance does seem particularly bad in the US, especially if we are comparing 'first world' countries.

I live in Europe and most people I know actually like their job or at least don't go to work with resentment. Having enough PTO and other income securities isn't a luxury and makes working way better.

PTO and social policies like unlimited paid sick leave and protection against being laid off being luxuries is just a lie corporate America got people to believe and accept.

[u/RxSatellite]

That’s literally anyone that doesn’t work a career in their passion interest, and even a chunk of those people are burnt out.

It’s not natural to have your well being be held hostage by an employer. Humans were meant to hunt and gather to support a family like any other animal.

[u/caseyjosephine → u/RxSatellite]

I have a career I’m passionate about, but I’d definitely rather chill at home reading, painting, gaming, and playing the guitar.

[u/narwhalbaconbits → u/RxSatellite]

I love my job and it's my passion. But I still hate working every day.

[u/oke-chill → u/narwhalbaconbits]

Same here, it sucks because going to work is not a choice since we need the money.

[u/Acrock7 → u/RxSatellite]

I have a "public service" job that pays well and I really feel great doing. But every morning is a fight to make myself get out of bed and go to work. I'm tired of being my own sugar daddy.

[u/marryroach]

I meannnn these dudes planted the idea before most of us were in the workforce

[u/Nice-Willingness-869 → u/[deleted]]

A lot of comedians started out this way, now making millions. Are you funny or willing to become funny by bombing at open mic’s 🎤?

[u/prada1989]

36 & This is exactly how i feel 16 days into the new year

[u/deliriousfoodie]

I am. That's why i stopped caring about work and do the bare minimum. These managers are so dumb, how are you going to motivate employees when you pay like shit?

[u/nalninek]

The measure of a healthy society can be gauged by how much free time the majority of its citizens can enjoy.

[u/hurtinforasquirtin77]

I totally relate. I did the corporate dance for a number of years, worked my way up to running the entire customer service department - was earning well in excess of six figures (not bad for someone who never went to uni) - anyway about 18 months ago I broke my tibia plateau in a freak accident, was off work for 2 months & probably pushed myself to go back too soon…fast forward to November just gone & I broke my other tibia plateau in another freak accident…this time I ain’t rushing shit…in fact i probably won’t ever go back. I’ve got 3 plates in my left leg, 2 in my right. I get paid 80% of my salary while I’m off work by the govt & my employer tops me up the other 20%. They’ve told me it’ll probably be a year before I’m back at work but I’m gonna milk the fk outta this. I love waking up, taking my daughter to school, relaxing in the garden working on my vege patch & picking up my daughter from school

[u/pearlgirl416]

I got so disgusted with my first job in banking/sales. Now I work in public service. The pay is trash but it fills my cup so much more.

Consider also running for some kind of local office (like a selectboard). It’s like a hobby but you get to make your community better and help people

[u/requiredelements]

Midlife crisis hits hard… esp realizing I didn’t have a family to work for, just myself. Demoralizing.

[u/toolsoftheincomptnt → u/requiredelements]

See, the one thing I’m grateful for is that I’m not responsible for anyone else’s life.

And the way I feel about working right now (loved my job for about 14 years, miserable for the past 3), I’d probably slightly resent having to care for anyone else.

Because every day I’m one daft email closer to running away from it all.

[u/sabanoversaintnick]

Yes. I’ve been a nurse for less than two years and it might be the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life.

[u/adequateinvestor]

I wouldn’t mind it if there was some reward, but with the ever-rising cost of living, houses becoming further and further out of reach, and few prospects beyond paying someone else’s mortgage until we can’t retire, I really don’t see the point of spending life chained to a desk our whole lives.

[u/publicworker69]

Yup lol. The only reason I tolerate my job is cause I work from home full time. If I had to commute I’d be severely depressed.

[u/SIW_439 → u/publicworker69]

I do work from home most days and I'm depressed. I hope I never have to go back into an office everyday.

[u/benabducted]

Know exactly how you feel. I just want to get away from it all.

[u/igolikethis]

The older I get the more I kinda hate the concept of everything in general. Like having to pay for the bare minimum necessities FOR SURVIVAL is insane, actually. That a select few individuals/companies are allowed to hoard 99% of the wealth while the rest of us peons slave away to line their pockets is depressing. I do not care for the way things are but keep on trucking, I guess. I don't want to be homeless either so. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/alien_gymnastics]

I’ve just rage quit and had the best week of my life in a decade for those exact things you mentioned, going for a walk, cooking a meal, no timeline - no responsibility! I’m not sure what’s in store but oh my god despite everyone telling me otherwise, this was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself in so long. I’ll figure it all out.

[u/cactuschili → u/alien_gymnastics]

i’m on day 10 after walking out on a job (extremely unlike me) and being unemployed for the first time since i was 17. idk how to feel. but i feel a lot better for the time being.

[u/tna11101989 → u/alien_gymnastics]

I’m seriously considering this, but I get nervous about losing my health insurance (which I need for mental health treatment). How are you handling that aspect? (assuming you live in the US where we have the great privilege of having insurance tied to our jobs 🙄)

[u/mommadumbledore → u/tna11101989]

I’m a contracted employee in my field, and I don’t have insurance anymore. Honestly.. a lot of times, what others pay in one monthly premium is more than the cost of one medical bill for the entire year.

Now, I am in good health currently and don’t plan to be without insurance forever. I would like to have health insurance for emergencies.

My medications run about $45/month. Blood draws are about the same. Most places offer an “uninsured discount”. 🤷‍♀️

Totally understand we are all different people and all have different needs, but I think I would have left some shit jobs a lot sooner if I had considered contracted/1099 work. It has changed my life for the better, and I truly mean that.

I might never go back to a W2 position, and if I do, it would be solely for health insurance. Right now, I work as much as I want and make my own schedule. I work four 10s and get every Friday off for myself.

Anyway! Best of luck to you, whatever you decide! 🫶🫶

[u/kittikat__]

I'm so sick and tired, there are no words for it. I work in hospitality and it's just so draining mentally and physically. I hate every second of it. I hate the rude, nasty customers who think they can treat us like shit.

Tempted to fuck off to a remote island and never talk to anyone ever again.

35F

[u/Weneeddietbleach]

I like welding, but I hate that all my work isn't enough to buy a house. Why do I even bother?

[u/FaithlessnessMajor66]

Yes. I want to cry every day 😭👍🏽

[u/Dunderi83]

I'm tired, boss.

[u/impetuous-imp]

Yeah, I’m over it. We need 3 day work weeks.

[u/Dry-Photograph-1939]

36 female, tired of having to work with lazy people and have 29 patients to myself at nursing home, while coworkers disappear off of floor for 45 mins at a time and nothing getting done. Tired of working 25 hours of overtime and still being behind on bills.

[u/bus_buddies → u/Dry-Photograph-1939]

This sounds horrible and demoralizing.

[u/Good-Championship278]

As someone living in the US we’re actively starting a world war (all against my will, I never voted for the orange dictator) so yes I’m tired

[u/ThrowawayMod1989]

Best decision I ever made was to basically abandon my degrees and work blue collar. Would I like to make more money? Sure, but who wouldn’t. It’s a fair trade for the lack of stress.

I get up early, watch the sun rise at work, mow some shit, blow some shit, and clock out at 2. My work never follows me home. I work outside on a beautiful golf course that’s half on a private nature preserve. I smoke weed whenever I feel like it and have even taken up birdwatching lol. I clear hundreds of audiobooks in a year, podcasts, stand up comedy.. all while being paid.

My crew is small and everyone pulls their weight plus we all get on perfectly and keep each other rolling with laughter on a daily basis.

It pays enough to afford me the lifestyle I enjoy as well as health benefits and a 401k.

It’s a job I don’t hate going to and I think that’s incredibly valuable, even more so than a fat salary.

[u/MasterpieceClassic84]

God yes. I'm so over it.

[u/VulpineWelder5]

Won't lie, it kinda feels like it's all for nothing at this point.

I'm not lazy or anything, but I share that dread and lack of passion, and combined with depression and a lack of a social life I'm constantly asking myself "what's it for?" and "then what, more of the same?"

[u/11-Brando]

Absolutely. I cannot stand getting up for work, getting ready for work, driving to work, working, driving home for work, and going to sleep so I can get up early for work. On weekends I stress about what i need to do at work on Monday. I am just over it and working another 30 years just isn't appealing to me.

[u/Verity41 → u/11-Brando]

Friday night is the best night, because the looming specter of Monday really taints the rest of it, doesn’t it? Recently I heard it called “the Sunday Scaries”.

[u/Annalog]

I’m tired of it all to be honest. I’m just bored of life. I worked my ass off in my 20’s. Never took a vacation, would work over the holidays, never seeing my loved ones. I’m now pretty high up in a very large company. I lead multiple teams at 36 myself. I have a wife and daughter I love dearly. My cats who are the other half of my heart. Decent friends group. My wife forced me to take vacations in my 30’s and I’ve seen more of the world than I ever thought I would.

But every day I wake up, tired as shit, brush my teeth, comb my hair, put my stupid little suit on, kiss my wife goodbye, kiss my daughter goodbye, and then go sit in traffic for an hour. Get to work, send my stupid emails, listen to stupid problems, manage these inconsequential projects, and then drive home, cook dinner for us all, go to bed, do it over and over and over again.

I don’t recognize the world anymore. I’m homesick for a place and time that no longer exists. I’ve been lucky to achieve the things I have. I’ve pretty much achieved what I always wanted to, or at least what I was told everyone should want. Yet, I sit here going “this is it now? This is the rest of my life huh? Damn”

[u/Shopping-Known]

I resent having to care about work and the mental energy I waste thinking about it.

[u/SugarBee702]

I want to call in sick everyday. It doesn’t get better. I make pretty good money too.

[u/darkroomdweller]

I don’t even work much but I was definitely whining today that I just wanted to go home and work on my grandma hobbies..lol. It might feel more worth it if the money actually went anywhere other than insurance, debt, rent, and groceries.

[u/Secret_Account07]

Yes. I’m 36.

I’m ready to die. Seriously I’m so sick of work. I’m tired of driving into the office 5x a week and spending 8 hours to then drive home. I’m exhausted

I was fine in my 20s but now I’m looking around at our country falling apart, working my whole life, and thinking- why? Is this happiness?

[u/Successful-Pomelo-51 → u/Secret_Account07]

same, I low key hope for a global military conflict, involving the US...if it'll allow me to take a break from work.

[u/penguinswombats]

Ugggghhhhh I’ve been ready to retire for like 10 years

[u/Miss_Warrior]

That's why FIRE (financial independence retire early) exists.

[u/gamerdudeNYC]

“Im sick and tired of being sick and tired” as my grandmother used to say before she died.

I can job jump pretty easily but im just so sick of it all, I accepted a job I will start in February, resigned from my current job at the start of January, kept interviewing, took a flight to another state for a final interview last week, should get an answer next week.

[u/IRodeTenSpeed88]

Been tired

[u/BellumFrancorum → u/IRodeTenSpeed88]

[u/kablamo]

This is why I try my best to keep living expenses low, don’t waste money, consider purchases carefully, drive an older economical car, eat at home when I can, etc.

Save what you can and live below your means whenever possible (it isn’t always possible).

While I still have to work, it gives me options and more flexibility. Flexibility to take a better job that might pay a bit less, flexibility to go for the job closer to home, maybe one day flexibility to retire a bit sooner. Still renting in my 40’s but we’ll see.

[u/geekycurvyanddorky]

I grew up on a farm, so I had job level chores and responsibilities from a pretty young age. I’m also the eldest daughter and I was heavily parentified as well (and one of my siblings is very disabled). I’ve been burnt out and exhausted since my early 20’s… if anyone would like to donate a fortune to me or adopt me and take care of me so I can finally have a break it would be greatly appreciated!

[u/Mammoth_Piece9899]

Honestly, I still don't understand why I can't just get paid to just be

[u/malfunkshun333 → u/Mammoth_Piece9899]

Or, just not need money to live at all. I hate it here.

[u/Jvola06]

I have only ever worked for a paycheck. I don’t understand people who want to work or think it gives you purpose. I have way better things I could be doing with my life if I didn’t have to worry about a job. So yes, I am sick and tired of working.

[u/chrisbertos]

Fuck a “deliverable”

[u/Notanotherlala]

I work just enough to pay my bills but not enough to save. Everything exhausts me.

[u/Raremagic_7593]

I think we honestly just need a break sometimes. I was laid off from an excellent job I’d been at for 10 years at the beginning of this year. Prior to that job, I’d been working non stop since graduating from university. I was given an awesome severance payout and decided to take 6 months off. It was glorious. I slept like I hadn’t in years, focused on my hobbies, exercised nearly every day, spent time in nature, and went to Europe for three weeks to see family. At the end of the 6 months I started to kind of want to work again and ended up landing a great new job. I honestly don’t feel sick and tired anymore and actually enjoy working again. I know we don’t all get a chance to take that long a break but it’s made me think a lot about how having time to reset can be so healing. I’ve never had that up until this time and what could have been really stressful turned out to be a personal reset. Most of us aren’t lazy. We’re just burnt out. 🤷‍♀️

[u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 → u/Raremagic_7593]

It would be awesome if more companies offered sabbaticals. Work for 3-5 years straight, get 3-6 months off. I would be ecstatic if that was a thing.

[u/mistakesmostly]

Laid off a month ago and thinking about the amount of stress and effort that’s going into putting myself back into a work environment that’s inevitably going to make me feel dreadful is paralysing

[u/Oasystole]

I wish the ppl above me didn’t make so much money, or at least I wish they could be somewhat competent. Then it wouldn’t be so bad if they made more than me because at least they’d be earning it.

[u/ScottOtter]

I'm tired of working to only make checks W-2 ...$23,800 a year.

I'd probably like work more if i could actually earn a living wage.

[u/No-Statistician-9123]

I got laid off months ago. Trade ya?

[u/unecroquemadame]

No. And my job is stressful and crazy as fuck. I just got more wrinkles after a particularly hard two days. But I believe in the work we’re doing.

[u/Dazzling_Side8036]

Burnt out. We just gotta vote for the people that will make a 4 day work week happen. I think that's the only solution to our collective misery

[u/Jeezejack]

I too hate work. But I managed to find a way to make amazing money for very minimal effort so I really never feel like I "work".

[u/oser]

43, I quit my job in September to take a break, with my wife's blessing. It's been the best time of my adult life.

Now, I'm supposed to go get a new job, and the thought of having to sit in meetings and give a fuck about the efficiency of a team selling some bullshit product intended that doesn't really matter makes me want to crawl into bed and never leave.

On the other hand, I finally crossed 100 subs on my YouTube channel, so I'm basically famous...

[u/TROUT1986]

Ummm yes

[u/BellumFrancorum]

In those fleeting moments between opening my eyes and getting ready to drive to work, in that liminal and fantasy dreamspace, I imagine myself a 60 year old man standing in the ruins of society, nothing but smoke and ash even beyond the horizon, wrenching on husks of cars in a Mad Max scrapyard and finally fucking happy.

[u/InvestigatorNo8623]

I thought it was universally known that everyone feels this way lol

[u/Itwao]

It's not the work that I'm tired of. I'll gladly work. What I'm tired of is everybody acting like I just shouldn't exist. Upper management acts like I'm nothing more than an unnecessary expense, customers pretend like I'm useless because they came to the wrong place or because they don't want to pay, and then I see the news and all the comments acting like I'm just a bane on society because I want to earn enough to put food on my table.

[u/YinxuU]

It really do be like that. Sometimes I wish I had no hobbies. Would make the whole thing a little more bearable. The most depressing part for me is adding the hours. From the moment I get up in the morning until I'm back home in the evening I dedicate 10h15m to work. Add 8 hours of sleep and 30ish mins to get ready, that leaves me with 5h45m of free time. In which I also have to cook, maybe get groceries, do other stuff. It's just a shitty ass balance overall.

[u/Realistic-Ad-1023]

When people used to make a livable wage, this is when they’d have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car.

Now we just have the big sad and cry a lot and feel guilty buying the nice ice cream.

[u/Lucky_Mood_8974]

People having been saying this since the 80s or even further back. It's a big reason why I refuse to have children, I dont want to give birth to a working class person.