#WorkLifeBalance #Adulting #HobbiesMatter
Hey everyone! 🌟
I wanted to share a bit about my experiences around the idea of maturity and hobbies, especially after a conversation with my boss. She always seemed to think that being an adult meant having no hobbies and just focusing on work. It got me thinking…
– **Work only?** My boss would call me immature for playing video games or enjoying my leisure time. It felt like she believed you could only be a “real adult” if your life revolved around work and responsibilities.
– **Cultural differences:** When I lived in Argentina, I was surprised to see parents dropping off their kids for swim class, then heading off to enjoy their own athletic activities. It made me realize that embracing hobbies is a norm in some places!
– **Embarrassment with hobbies:** I remember feeling so out of place showing up to breakdancing class at 25, thinking “Am I too old for this?” But you know what? Nobody seemed to care — they were just enjoying themselves.
– **American culture’s take:** It’s kind of sad that in the U.S., we often see hobbies as childish or something only kids can do. Why is that? 🤔
I genuinely think engaging in hobbies can keep our spirits high and help us recharge from the grind of daily life.
**So, here’s my question to you all:**
🔍 *What hobbies do you think are considered childish in adult life, and how do you balance work with your interests?*
I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences! Let’s discuss how we can break the mold and embrace what brings us joy. 🌈✨
Wow, that’s really eye-opening. It’s sad that our society puts so much pressure on working and being productive, instead of allowing people to have hobbies and enjoy their free time. It’s important to have a balance and not just be robots who work all the time. But hey, at least we can still bust a move on the dance floor!
Guess I’m just an unapologetic lifer for immaturity then.
Protestant work ethic
I’ve never understood the extreme worker drone mentality that the U.S. and Canada have… It’s soul crushing being reduced to a value of productivity by the entirety of society, even your peers.
My least favorite question is “what do you do?” It has always just felt like I’m being asked what they should value me at based off of my job rather than who I am. I always respond with what I do as hobbies or interests and then get weird looks like that wasn’t a valid answer.
Yep, we aren’t people we are cogs in a machine. We serve our function in the machinery, then when we are worn out and broken, we are replaced with another newer cog just like us without a second thought.
Yes, I wish jobs had no idea of your life outside work because while it shouldn’t, it definitely affects how they view you at work. If you didn’t take on a lot at home or live a slightly alternative way they don’t think you will take on things at work. It’s also the other way around that people with kids and such will get favored in hours and promotions because “they need it more.” So, so wrong and if you try and call it out you are called every kind of name in the book. It’s not a disability, a sickness or a result of an accident it’s a choice someone made.
If I could do nothing but hobbies ie stuff I actually give a shit about doing then I would. Unfortunately this useless flesh sack requires food to continue functioning
I regularly play my Switch at lunch. People come up all the time, looking kind of embarrassed, and ask what I’m playing. Ww usually have a good talk, and if I mention they should bring their, they get all abashed and say things like “no, i couldnt…”.
Live your best life! Don’t not enjoy things because people might judge you for them. As long as you aren’t hurting or disrupting anyone else, go wild.
All this peer pressure to work like a slave, spend more time at work than at home, be a good wage slave so your boss can patt you on the head and say good job, keeping up with the Jones, competing with your peers to put do them on salary was all designed by the billionaire elites and trillionaire families that hold the Treasury and our govt hostage.
They have the psychological warfare down to a science. They know a few people will resist but they also know their propaganda and mind control techniques work on most normies and they use those normies to peer pressure the people who resist.
Now why would they want you working like this.
Because they are harvesting your imagination. New tech will never see the light of day. They have all the great health care that will never be released to the public and who didn’t get it from?
A smart wage slave that had to invoke his imagination from within so he could get this title or that title to show off to all his friends not knowing he was going to get jfk’d soon and his health discovery kept to the top elites.
Even the guy pushing boxes at the warehouse they are harvesting his imagination as well. Some of those guys come up with ingenious ways to push boxes, the company uses it as a standard, and guess what? That efficiency helps the company make at least 5 to 10 mill more a month on top of the billions while they pay this warehouse worker 15-20 an hour when he just came up with a great idea that helped the company. Oh yeah and the parent company of this company is either Vanguard or Blackrock lol
Sounds like a conspiracy theory but go read what Nimrod after the world wide flood. He was the 1st to create a system like this. They understand the power of human imagination.
It’s funny because when you’re *applying* for work you’re expected to have hobbies and interests that make you a well-rounded person! And a strong candidate!
but once you *start* working it’s expected that you won’t spend any of your time or energy on anything that isn’t your work, unless it fits neatly into your allocated time off – you’d prefer to work consistent shifts because your hobby involves pre-scheduled meet-ups with others? Well now you’re just not being a team player, are you?
american culture is all about productivity and work, while other cultures prioritize hobbies and self-care. it’s time for a change.