WorkLifeStruggles #WorkLifeBalance #CareerBurnout
I feel you, friend. Work can be a real drag sometimes, and it’s so frustrating to see people actually enjoy it. But hey, maybe there’s a silver lining somewhere in this mess. Here are a few things to consider that might help you find some peace in your work life:
- Find Meaning: Try to connect with the bigger picture of what you’re doing. Even the most menial tasks can have a purpose if you look at them from a different angle.
- Set Boundaries: It’s crucial to establish limits between work and personal time. Make sure you carve out time for yourself, even if it’s just a few minutes here and there.
- Explore Options: If you’re feeling completely trapped in your current job, maybe it’s time to consider other opportunities. It’s never too late to make a change.
Hang in there, buddy. You’re not alone in feeling this way, and there are ways to make your work life more bearable. Keep pushing through, and remember that your well-being is the most important thing. 🌟 #WorkLifeStruggles #SelfCare #CareerAdvice
1. People who like their jobs
2. People who make a lot of money and tolerate their jobs for that reason
Brian washed
I couldn’t agree more
I like the distraction, if you were stuck with my thoughts all day you would do anything to shut that asshole up too.
I dated a girl named Dawn and loved to wake up next to her asscrack.
Those people *don’t* “love working”; they love the paychecks in their bank accounts so that they can ***pay bills/expenses***, then ***purchase goods & services that they want***.
Unless they’re working in careers they really love, the people see their jobs as the means to the aforementioned ends.
My supervisor loves her job (or at least she pretends to), and I genuinely don’t think she has any self-worth outside of her work. I don’t know if this is the case for you, but I feel like I’m a very creative person who has a lot of hobbies and interests and friendships that I would much rather invest time and energy into than work, and that’s one of my biggest gripes with the system. I am also neurodivergent, so a lot of my work day is spent masking and being forced to be productive outside of my natural delayed circadian rhythm. There have been so many studies done on how people with ADHD function better and have more energy at night, but no reforms have been made to accommodate and encourage people like me. Long story short, I hear your frustrations and echo them.
It very much depends on your job. My job is not super fun most days, but I don’t have a bad boss, I have reasonable freedom. If I need time off or have an emergency, the place might take a hit and be a little chaotic, but it’s understood that life happens.
I am paid a fair living wage for my area, I am expected to be an adult and be respectful for my self and my team ,I have an enormous amount of responsibility that is sometimes incredibly stressful, my free time is limited when it’s really busy and sometimes when it isn’t busy I still might sacrifice more than I personally feel I should but ultimately I do it because I find some extra value in myself through some sort of goal or service.
This just so happens to be the thing that also provides me with money to live. A job isn’t your identity it is just a means to the end, I worked 20+ different jobs in multiple industries until I found something that felt right, and I was able to take a little knowledge or work ethic from each place and make something out of it I don’t hate everyday.
I feel they just have nothing better to do in their life. If someone has hobbies, no way they love working
Work outside. It’s immensely gratifying.
yeah. they have nothing better going on in their lives. I had a manager before & she seemed to put work first before her own kid which my coworker & I thought was sad 😬
I didn’t start liking what I do until I stopped living in a cube. Ymmv of course.
This is all by design. Imagine if you had extra time? What if you used that extra time to research and invest…then eventually you would become financially free…
That’s exactly what the government wants to stop. They only want workers. They only want you to have just enough time to relax not to use that time to free yourself.
This is the cage they built for us.
This is the way of the wage slave.
It really depends on the job. I always say that sure, I’d rather be wealthy and free to just have fun and travel and hike and do all the fun stuff. But I went to college for a specific degree. I’ve worked in that field for 12 years now. I love it my profession. I like my job. Our new union contract went into effect July 1, and 2 pay raises have already occurred so I definitely like the $90,000 salary. I have complete freedom to work from home whenever I want to.
Not all jobs suck. Some are professional level and are done by folks who really want to be there.
Not everybody’s jobs are as bad as yours. I don’t love work, would much rather be living life, but I don’t hate it. I have no set start or finish time. I’m supposed to be in sometime around 7:30, but nobody hassles me if I’m 10-20 minutes “late,” and nobody says anything if I leave on time or need to leave early. My coworkers and bosses are pretty cool. We get (often menial, granted) shit done and chat about whatever when the fit takes us. Sometimes we’ll go for late lunch and just not come back.
We’re building a hospital right now, so there is some contribution to society to feel decent about, it’s not JUST the almighty dollar (although that IS the main purpose, it just happens to align with what our region needs right now). All of us have social lives and hobbies. Not as much time for them as we would like, but not none, and our work isn’t so draining that we have no energy at the end of the day.
My friend this sounds like burnout or you’re being compensated unfairly at a minimum. I found myself in this position and in my case it was mostly burnout and somewhat not the best pay. I ended up waking up to panic attacks. I would have emotional breakdowns in my car before going in. Physical health took a dive as well. I’m still trying to recover physically.
I want to tell you that capitalism, especially late stage capitalism has a general gist of le suck for the vast majority. BUT:
I finally worked up the courage to start looking and entertaining something else. I was offered a job that paid better doing more in line with what I could find more fulfillment in doing.
I also was dragged to therapy by my friends and family. I should have taken myself from the start. My outlook is a complete 180 and I honestly could not foresee this when I was in that mire you just described.
I didn’t hate my coworkers. My boss and I still talk and got along great, but It just…. It just came to a cliff somehow and when I was at the edge i was feeling how you just described.
Please seek some help for yourself. Please entertain the idea at least of looking for something else, maybe not even necessarily “better” one way or another. Even a change in environment and faces can be enough to shift gears. Also literal help. I’m hoping you have some insurance and can maybe check out a session or two or three of some therapy. Someone unassociated from your life you can just throw it all at and they hand back to you suggestions to cope and suggestions to act.
YOU HAVE OPTIONS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STAY IN THIS. YOU CAN BE MUCH MORE SATISFIED.
I love my job. I work in research at an university and they’re pretty chill about everything. They don’t demand me to work anywhere specifically, they don’t mind me going for walks during work time. As long as I do something that I feel like helps me with doing my research it is fine. The results are the thing that counts because good work will get them more funding. I also just really love the subject so I’d probably spend a big chunk of my spare time reading up on it and thinking about it if it weren’t my job. Now I just get paid for it. Don’t live in the United States, so pay isn’t bad either.
I think you are talking about office jobs specifically, I for one turned my hobby into my job. Even if I had my financial needs taken care off, I would be doing the same.
I like my job, but I don’t love working. If I’ve got to work, I’d rather do what I’m doing where I have tasks that I mostly enjoy & feel like I am contributing to society.
That said, if someone gave me a million dollars tomorrow, I’d pay off the mortgage, then live off the interest.
I have so many better things to do with my time; read books, go bikepacking, be a lap for a cat …
Just a reminder that the 40 hour workweek was not designed because that’s best for productivity. It was designed because that’s the calculated amount of time they can take from you to remove all ability to do things yourself, requiring paid assistance (prepared meals, child care), while giving you the illusion that you have enough free time for yourself so you should be grateful.
I hate working, but when im doing nothing at home for a few days im annoyed that i could be making money.
I love my job because it’s something I’m very interested in, I get paid a decent wage for what I do, and management will always have my back if what I’m saying is correct.
that being said, sometimes I fucking hate my job and still dream of living in the forest and surviving off berries and whatever else I find.
Yeah, that’s bullshit. I work only because I have to to pay rent and groceries. If I won the lottery I would never work again a day in my life. During the pandemic I was at home for two years and being paid by the government to stay there and not work; honestly I loved every minute of it. I was never bored and always had something to do, and life was pretty good except for the fact that my unemployment was less than I get while working. But it was still better than working.
Working isn’t the same thing as slavery. What you hate is slavery OP. Working is the most satisfying activity a human can do, when they are doing it for themselves and their community.
Do you enjoy when you make a really good meal? Thats what real work is
They’re brainwashed or they make a lot more money than the rest of us.
Eh. I love my job. It’s fulfilling and rewarding. The people I work with are also awesome people. Many of us hangout outside of work. We do trips to the mountains for sledding, hiking. Horseback riding. Helping eachother on the farms or with hobbies.
I had 4 guys from work offer to come help me with rennovations at a house I bought for my parents to retire in.
The only thing I dislike sometimes is the bullshit politics but overall love my job and the people I work with. Sounds cheesy but our shop is legitimately like a big fucking family lol. Doubt many people are going to like to hear that.. but for our area it’s true.
That said we are only one shop of a very large company. Some of the other branches are absolute shit. This one just has wonderful leadership. Where they share profits and take care of their workers.
I love my job and get paid a lot for doing it. Win win
I like working. I think I would work even if I didn’t get paid.
That said, I recognize that I’m a minority, and that other people are sick or disabled, and that most people don’t live to work, they work to live. I’m actually okay with that.
I think someone willing to work should be rewarded for working while other people don’t, but I recognize that the reward cycle for labor isn’t connected to the amount of labor you do anymore. I think more people would enjoy working if work paid well, didn’t feel compulsory, and you weren’t forced into something you don’t find compelling.
I’m sorry for your situation OP. I’d love it if we weren’t in this situation. I wish I could do more.
Get a job you enjoy doing. Usually those people are the ones who pursued a specific career choice because it is something they enjoy doing.
Those who love what they do, it fits a mental niche for them.
I’m a hardcore woodworker. If I could run a sawmill, surface lumber, and build stuff all day long I would put in far more hours willingly than compared to my current job.
I got autism and ADHD, i need a way to bring structure into my life.
If it wasnt work i’d be doing something else as my life (and mental health) quickly falls apart if im left to my own devices for longer than a week.
2 week holidays at some point feel horrible because all the structure in my life is gone.
I’m not one to say i love working but i have a job thats pretty interesting with fun colleagues and human managers. Friends of mine have a caterig company and restaurant where i often work on the side where i get to eat good food, interact with people in a way that i find enjoyable/manageable and earn some more money so i can live comfortably.
I love to be busy and compared to my previous shift-working job (where i earned a few hundred more) im much happier with the consistency that helps arrange my life in a way that my head appreciates.
That said, i live in Belgium where labor laws etc are much more humane. My manager sends me home the moment i start coughing a bit too much or doesnt allow me to come in if i have a bit of a fever cause “she dont want none of that icky shit in her home”.
I’d much rather not work if there was no need for it but itd take me a good while to bring structure into my life on my own AND to adhere to said structure. ‘it has to be done’ is something my brain accepts even if i wake up groggy. ‘i planned it this way to keep structure’ is something that i skip.
For some people its also the only purpose they have in life, however sad that might be. Not much you can do for them.