Coming home too damn tired to do anything else, even including chores, is top for me.
I have dishes lying around, laundry needing to be done at somepoint, some extra small tasks to do. But, trying to go ‘above and beyond’ for a shitty job just leaves you with nothing left to do them, having to waste time off to finally do them.
I’m in a building that’s not my home, for 8 hours (used to have some days where it was 10 hours), a night. Where my company tries to tell me to treat their building that I work in, as a second home. Dealing with all of these tasks that ultimately mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Dealing with people who conveniently forget a lot of the time, as to how to be a normal human being and they being at your expense.
And in addition to coming home too damn tired to do anything else, I’m sometimes worrying if what I’m making now for however many hours, is enough to cover everything I need to have or want to have.
I enjoy my job and would do it even if I didn’t financially need to.
In the winter especially, you go to work in the dark. Spend all day indoors with no windows while the sun is out. And then drive home in the dark to a dark house.
You get so depressed and lose motivation. And what did you gain? Less money than last year.
I honestly hate work itself, I’m not doing what I want if I’m working. There is no job I want.
What is your hobby? I turned my hobby (web design) into a business in 2004 while in college because I had the same mentality you posted.
I tell this to people and they simply do not understand. “What if you found something you like doing, then it’s not really work!” It’s still working. I will not enjoy it. I would rather have the freedom to choose what I’m doing at any particular time. People just cannot grasp that idea. But I also may not be explaining myself well, such is life.
People are brainwashed to believe that their value is tied to their productivity
Depends what value. It is good to be contributing to society. But you can still be contributing and not working 996
True, but most people confuse contributing to society with contributing to billionaire pocket linings
There is a difference
I just hate the shitty adults and their pointless gossip. Who does it help if you shit on someone’s haircut? No one, Michael. You ass.
Yeah but Dmitry’s bowl cut is really, really bad
the necessity of it, and that whatever you get paid to do becomes it
It would be easier to list what I like about it: nothing.
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I do desk work for a company that mostly does manufacturing, and I’ve had a few of the workshop guys come into the office, take one look at my screen, and tell me they’d never be able to do my job. I usually tell them I probably couldn’t do their job either so we’re even
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Who does he think designs all the shit that he works on?
I see you’ve met my father.
(He’s not an electrician, just blue collar with that opinion)
I was a welder who was promoted up to quality manager, and I can tell you that while my current role is nowhere near as physically demanding, it is absolutely harder.
Perhaps it’s my ADHD, perhaps it’s because I’ve never really been trained for office work, but the thing I struggle with most is prioritising tasks, making sure I’m doing enough of all the things required of me. I never had to do that before. My foreman would assign me tasks, I’d do the tasks. Easy. Also, my current role intersects heavily with health and safety legislation, so I’ve had to study for (and pass) a NEBOSH qualification. I never failed a welding test, but I had to resit the NEBOSH.
Daily commute. Fuck cars and fuck city planning around cars. I stay in a box for 1 hour so I can work in a box, so I can stay in a box for another hour until I can finally get back to my box
The notion that 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, we are productive.
I do real work for a few hours each day and I still get told I work too much or am “the fastest” on the computer.
depending on it for survival
I love what i do and the kids and people that i work with. Administration is incompetent and has become more and more micromanaging because they don’t understand that they’re the problem. I’ve been out since October, going back in Feb, will probably quit in may at the end of the school year and do something different.
Sounds like it’s time to go “below & within” for your employer
I am very commute sensitive, won’t take a job too far away.
Other than that, I hate, hate, hate the unequal compensation the most. Too much money to the people at the top, and raises by % just make it worse.
Productivity goes up, all tools are used to achieve it, but pay and hours stay the same.
I’m lucky to have a job I actually enjoy doing.
What I hate is I live in a place where winter can be significant, such as a stretch of two weeks last year when we had -20 to -40 degree temperatures, and I was still expected to take public trans and walk to and from work on our in-office days.
