#CareerStruggles #WorkLifeBalance #DreamJob
Hey everyone! 💬 So I’ve been thinking… if we didn’t need to work just to survive, would anyone actually choose to do a 9-5? 🤔 Why does it feel like we’re constantly grinding for something that seems so out of reach?
It’s such a bummer when I scroll through social media and see younger influencers living it up in fancy houses while some of us are just trying to make ends meet. 🌪️ Living paycheck to paycheck is honestly exhausting! Here are a few thoughts that come to mind:
- Lost Passion: Many of us have passions and dreams, but the reality of student loans and bills can make it hard to chase those dreams. 🎓
- Unfair Job Market: It’s so frustrating to hear about people who got degrees in fields they love but are still struggling to find work! 😩
- Comparison Culture: Seeing others succeed can be inspiring, but it can also make us feel inadequate. 😢
So what’s the solution? Well, here are a few ideas:
- Explore Alternatives: Have you considered freelancing or remote work? It might give you the flexibility you crave! 🌐
- Skill-up: Learning new skills can make you more marketable and possibly open up better job opportunities. 📚
- Network: Connecting with others in your field can lead to opportunities you might not have found on your own! 🤝
Now, I’d love to hear from you! Do you think you’d still want to work a 9-5 if it weren’t necessary for survival? What’s your experience been like in trying to find a job you love? Share your thoughts and any tips you might have! 💡👇
Yup and yes I do, my work helps people (including babies) get medications. During covid/pandemic, my work helped create new drugs for covid, mental illness, and cancer.
I’ve worked retail
I’ve worked 8 hours m-f
I’m currently 12 hours shift
Some people like it
Some people don’t
I think my mind can’t focus after hour 10 so I think maybe 8×5 or 4×10 would be okay for me
I work 6 to 6 but I get paid hourly. It’s magical
Buddy, this comes down to how bad do you really want it? Don’t sit and compare yourself to some influencer, often times these influencers are a façade of bullshit. you want money you want wealth be prepared to work. Keep in mind the world owes you nothing, have zero expectations of others. Success is like being pregnant everyone says congratulations but Nobody knows how many times you got fucked. Grind and grind hard
Going from working 8-7 for 6 days a week, to 9-5 for only 5 days a week seems like massive improvement for me, so I would take that.
To the tune of Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5: “I’d rather work 9 to 5. Fuck bein pregnant in the kitchen.” -this one goes out too Trump and Vance.
a lot of those so called ‘influencers’ are trust fund kids who spend their parents money to get view..ie.. buy multiple 300,000$ porches and then make money off the ‘views’ and parents don’t mind if they lose money….that 5 million dollar house was daddies investment that his kids just make content in.
When I find a 9 to 5 that has some kind of meaning in it other than making the leader of the company money, then yes, I will want to work a 9 to 5. Until then, it’s making the CEO’s widgets more profitable by organizing grains of sand according to monetary value and size. And, that doesn’t really bring a lot of joy to the
average person who doesn’t happen to be working their dream.
Bro delete Instagram and TikTok. You clearly have no sense of what’s real anymore on social media and it’s affecting your real life
Fuck this piece of shit world. Everyone knows how shit and unfair it actually is, but they expect us to get high off platitudes. If I didn’t have to, I would never work a 9-5
No one really wants to work for necessities if we didn’t need to. im sure we’d do something else we were passionate about, things that make an impact instead of wage slaves.
I have yet to find a job that starts at 9 and ends at 5. Where are these 8hr fasting people?
Honestly with all the bullshit connected with influencers I’m happy that I’m not like them. I’m happy with my 9-5 and I don’t have to expose my life.
The world is a competition. You have to out compete someone else for a role, while pretending to be a team player. Oh and you had no choice to be born in the first place.
The influencer era is coming to an end. When commercials like Progressive start making fun of them we’ve hit critical mass.
Would I work 9-5 if I didn’t have to?
No. I would do exactly what I want to do – live off the grid and provide for myself and my family. I don’t require a lot and the bullshit in this world is getting worse and worse.
Unfortunately all that is just a fantasy – unless civilization collapses the 9-5 is here to stay probably.
I currently work 8 to 4 with an hour lunch. 35 hours a week. It’s not too bad.
I don’t mind 9-5 (more often 8-5 with a mandatory 1 hour lunch break), I’d say a more important thing to go for is aim to shift America to the 4 day workweek with no reduction in pay nor increase in hours. Have all places switch to an A and B shift that alternate.
What I mean by that is this
A shift works Monday – Thursday
B shift works Tuesday – Friday
Each weeks the shifts alternate, meaning that every other weekend is 4 days, pretty neat, I once worked at a place that did this, but sadly wasn’t in one of the departments that adopted it, plus it came with the caveat of 10 hour shifts.
Also since this would still be 8 hour shifts, it would come with dropping the overtime threshold to 32 hours, not 40.
It’s a little better when you work 3, 12 hour days or 4, 10 hour days so you can have 4 or 3 days off but you still feel like an endless slave to money and you will never escape unless you can retire with a lot. I also get really jealous of the rich successful influencers. I don’t think it’s fair at all because as long as you are working hard you should be able to make good money no matter what you are doing.
Does anyone? But like…bills.
I don’t want to work 9-5. So, I’m working 8-5.
FUCK NO. lmao. i have no passion for labor. it’s just a necessity, nothing more, nothing less.
You guys work 9-5?
Don’t believe what you see influencers doing – most of it’s fake, or not all that it seems.
Influencers are slaves of the algorithm – it can work out for a while but if you want to stay relevant you need to keep posting on every platform, come up with new ideas and hire staff to support production and brand deals – it becomes a full time job.
Even as an influencer you gotta put work in. You gotta try at least and search for a job. If you’re lucky you’ll find friendly colleagues or a start of a career.
And please, don’t be jealous of others, nothing comes from that.
No but when i asked to work a 9-9:01 they kicked me out of the interview :/
The problem is the delusional movie you make in your head in college to then get slapped in the face with a harsher reality once you start working. Instead of pivoting or playing to your strengths, you double down on your bullshit careers thinking it will take off like a hallmark movie. Also, some people are lucky, some are not. It is what it is. The fact that people STILL think “hard work” is what will make you successful is BONKERS.
I’d kill for a 9 to 5, everything I’m looking at is 8 to 5 or even 8 to 6.
I don’t like working…point blank but I like nice things
I also work from home 100% so that atleast provides a nice balance
Here’s the thing. I really DON’T want to work an office job, I’m way over it.
This year I took a break from the corporate world to create my own business and write novels, blog posts, and reviews, and I LOVED it. I could easily spend 8-10 hours a day writing and it felt like nothing. I was doing way more work than at my job but getting paid nothing for it.
So I think what it really comes down to is what we’re doing, not where or how long. Society’s “jobs” are soul sucking garbage. People worry about AI and automation, but I don’t think most people really want the jobs that it would replace anyway, they just want income. Assuming something fills that income void like universal basic income and cheaper, better housing, I think we might actually have a brighter future.
As an employed person, I treat 9-5 as just a paycheck. Influencer is like like hollywood where you have A-list actors and rest are just starving actors. Just like Elon Musk is an engineer + software developer but not all engineers/ software developers are elon musk
Yes I need stability in my life that a 9-5 offers. I am too erratic otherwise
I never understood why people make fun of or they don’t like 9 to 5 I mean I personally like a 9 to 5 yes, like I know I don’t have the brain cells to run a business.the pay has to be good and if it is within a reasonable commuting distance from my house what’s so wrong about it like it pays me at the end of the day.
Where yall finding 9-5s at? Everything seems tk be 8-5 these days
i’m studying to be a mental health counselor, so yes one day i will want to work a 9-5.
but with just about any other job or career – i am not putting in the time for a 9-5. mental health counseling is the only thing i’ve ever considered as a long-term career or have been passionate about.
I don’t pay attention to social media. Mostly because if I really thought about the fact that some girl made more selling her bathwater than I will in 40 years of programming computers then I might do something that makes them rename “going postal” to “going developer”
I would take 9-5 if it truly was 9-5. It would be an improvement from constantly having to put out fires at the last minute. I’m ok putting out fires from 9-5.
I feel like popular kids in school have an easy way to end up being influencers
no, i want a 10 to 3. that pays double.
My dream would be another movement (like the one that got us 9-5) that normalizes 32 hour work weeks, without loss in pay, based on what has been achieved in countries that already do something like this and show that it’s a functional model for employment.
I would be okay with managers being a bit more pissy about slacking off and goofing around if it meant I see them 8 hours less per week.
Rather be independently wealthy and lived in modernized cabin near a lake.
Those influencers are few and far between. You seem them because that’s their job; to be seen.
9-5s is how people make money to then start a business on their own. Nobody just starts a 1m a year business just off a couple bucks.
But guess what? With your own business you’re usually working a lot more than just 9-5. There is no easy way out.