The 9 to 5... why do we do it?
Nov 19, 2015 19:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by Escape The Rules on Nov 19, 2015 19:05:34 GMT -5
Apologies in advance if this is a long read:
This is something I've been thinking about lately. A couple of months ago I decided to leave my last job and just take a break from working because I was quite honestly sick of it. Right now I'm 23 years old and have no responsibilities so I don't NEED to have a job at this point in time. But don't mistake that as me being a leech: I've saved a good bit of money in the bank and can afford to take a break from it all right now. And I definitely do my share of helping out.
The whole work thing is a really depressing concept to me. It always has been. To me, there's so much more to life than working your ass off every single day just to survive. That's not a life. That's depressing.
Most people are born, go to school, then college or university, putting themselves through years of needless stress and then and then instead of getting to sit back, relax and enjoy life when it's finally over, they're thrust right into work until life throws them the retirement bone when they're what, in their sixties or older and a ball hair away from their grave? Sounds fun, where do I sign up?
I left school immediately after my exams in 4th year when I was 16 with no intentions of going to college or university. My freedom and happiness was far more valuable than some meaningless qualifications.
As far as I can remember, when people would bring up the subject of work and what we wanted to do for a living I would just groan. It's not something I ever thought about as a kid because the idea of working for the rest of my life was a miserable one. I preferred to just enjoy my childhood and live in the present without having the thought of a job thrust upon me from the moment I came out the womb.
The thought of spending my life being chained down to a menial job that I don't even want to be doing just to live is depressing. I don't like the feeling of being shackled, I prefer to be a free spirit. If I had the choice, I wouldn't work at all and would just do what I want. And really isn't that what life's all about? Being happy? It just seems like a silly concept to me, to waste most of your life being unhappy.
Why should I bother slaving away at a 9-5 job for 30 years of my life just to secure myself a somewhat mediocre retirement? I don't even like to think that far into the future, it's just needless worrying. I'd rather live in the moment doing the things I love and enjoy being young. I don't like to think about 10, 20 or 30 years from now. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Hell, it's not even guaranteed that we WILL get to it because another 30 years of life isn't guaranteed. I read a saying somewhere: "Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life".
Why has everybody been brainwashed into giving up all of their time to work jobs they mostly hate? Most people have even managed to convince themselves that they love their jobs when you know for a fact that they wouldn't be doing it if they didn't have to. Sometimes I'll look out my window at 7am when it's still dark and see the motorway already busy with people driving to work like zombies on a conveyor belt. I always wonder to myself how many of those people are happy to be getting up and driving to work at that hour.
And don't get me started on people who tell others who are doing something fun for a living to "get a real job" aka 9 to 5 job you despise because that's the position they're stuck in. It's pretty sad that these people have been brainwashed into thinking that a miserable 9 to 5 job is the only way of life. I refuse to be just another boring nameless, faceless, floating suit, a walking shirt and tie, a digit, a number, a statistic, a walking bank statement, a coffee run on legs.
Then I'll see the stuck up, pretentious 9 to 5 wankers/shirt & tie brigade plodding along with their cups of coffee in one hand and their briefcases in the other looking absolutely dead inside with nothing going on inside their heads but numbers and figures, totally controlled by money and material possessions. It's a miserable existence that I'm so glad to not be a part of. People watching during morning rush hour is a truly fascinating thing to do. Seriously, try it sometime.
Right now I've been enjoying my freedom, being able to sleep until whenever I want, not having to wake up to an alarm and being free to do whatever I want, whenever I want. I can honestly say that right now, I'm content, happy and enjoying the hell out of life right now. I'm almost always relaxed and have no anxiety, stress or worries. I genuinely do not remember the last time I was stressed out. And I've learned to appreciate so many of the simple things in life. I'm in absolutely no hurry to go back into the miserable, brainwashed, zombie-like world of work right now.
A bird can make a nest in two days, a rat can dig a hole in one night, yet we humans work for over 30 years to pay for a house. Why have we made life so needlessly complicated for ourselves? I've been meaning to do this thread for a while because I'm curious to know how the rest of society feels about this subject. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
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FYI: I'm not saying that I'll never go back to work, that's just stupid. I'm obviously going to need a source of income again at some point. But for right now, I'm just enjoying being able to live a stress and worry free life. Why is that so wrong?
Actually the more I read and think about this thread, the more pissed off I am. But I'm not gonna get all the way into it. If you need to be told what's wrong with your outlook, you're not worth my fingertips hitting the keyboard son. We would all love to do what we want and still have the means to fund it. You wanna avoid a 9-5 job, well leaving college wasn't the way to do it. I've been a top tier boss since I was 23. Same with my wife. We didn't get there by scratching our ass laying in our bed till noon everyday. We make our own schedules and do very well.
As soon as your savings run out, get your sh*t together. sickens me that my tax dollars will probably help you one day.
Talking down to me in that sanctimonious manner makes you look neither big nor clever, it just makes you look like an arrogant d*ck. Get off your high horse.
The fact that you say my outlook is wrong just shows your sheer arrogance and ignorance, you've just struck me as someone who's really close minded.
I never left college, I didn't go in the first place. Over here it's not a must that you go to college for education. Same with school, after you finish your exams at the end of fourth year, you have the option to leave when you're 16 or you can stay on for another 2 years. I left. I took a few months to unwind after leaving school and then I went right into work. Different people want different things. I'd much rather have a simple job that's fun and that I really enjoy than go for a higher up boring corporate job that stresses me the
out just because it pays a bit more.
Seems a bit silly to me that you're getting angry over this, I'm not doing you or anyone else any harm personally by not having a job right now, so why should it bother you? That's another thing that blows my mind, people who take such silly things in life so seriously. We all die in the end, so I'd rather just live in the moment, let the good times roll and enjoy life rather than stress out over things that aren't going to matter when we're gone.
Like I said in another post, of course I'm going to go back to work, that's pretty obvious. I have no intentions of mooching I'm not that delusional nor am I selfish like that. But for right now I'm just really enjoying the feeling of not having to work, it's a very nice position to be in. And it got me thinking about the world as a whole, hence this thread.
And no, your tax dollars won't help me one day, because 1) I'm from the UK and 2) I don't plan on relying on handouts.
This is something I've been thinking about lately. A couple of months ago I decided to leave my last job and just take a break from working because I was quite honestly sick of it. Right now I'm 23 years old and have no responsibilities so I don't NEED to have a job at this point in time. But don't mistake that as me being a leech: I've saved a good bit of money in the bank and can afford to take a break from it all right now. And I definitely do my share of helping out.
The whole work thing is a really depressing concept to me. It always has been. To me, there's so much more to life than working your ass off every single day just to survive. That's not a life. That's depressing.
Most people are born, go to school, then college or university, putting themselves through years of needless stress and then and then instead of getting to sit back, relax and enjoy life when it's finally over, they're thrust right into work until life throws them the retirement bone when they're what, in their sixties or older and a ball hair away from their grave? Sounds fun, where do I sign up?
I left school immediately after my exams in 4th year when I was 16 with no intentions of going to college or university. My freedom and happiness was far more valuable than some meaningless qualifications.
As far as I can remember, when people would bring up the subject of work and what we wanted to do for a living I would just groan. It's not something I ever thought about as a kid because the idea of working for the rest of my life was a miserable one. I preferred to just enjoy my childhood and live in the present without having the thought of a job thrust upon me from the moment I came out the womb.
The thought of spending my life being chained down to a menial job that I don't even want to be doing just to live is depressing. I don't like the feeling of being shackled, I prefer to be a free spirit. If I had the choice, I wouldn't work at all and would just do what I want. And really isn't that what life's all about? Being happy? It just seems like a silly concept to me, to waste most of your life being unhappy.
Why should I bother slaving away at a 9-5 job for 30 years of my life just to secure myself a somewhat mediocre retirement? I don't even like to think that far into the future, it's just needless worrying. I'd rather live in the moment doing the things I love and enjoy being young. I don't like to think about 10, 20 or 30 years from now. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Hell, it's not even guaranteed that we WILL get to it because another 30 years of life isn't guaranteed. I read a saying somewhere: "Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life".
Why has everybody been brainwashed into giving up all of their time to work jobs they mostly hate? Most people have even managed to convince themselves that they love their jobs when you know for a fact that they wouldn't be doing it if they didn't have to. Sometimes I'll look out my window at 7am when it's still dark and see the motorway already busy with people driving to work like zombies on a conveyor belt. I always wonder to myself how many of those people are happy to be getting up and driving to work at that hour.
And don't get me started on people who tell others who are doing something fun for a living to "get a real job" aka 9 to 5 job you despise because that's the position they're stuck in. It's pretty sad that these people have been brainwashed into thinking that a miserable 9 to 5 job is the only way of life. I refuse to be just another boring nameless, faceless, floating suit, a walking shirt and tie, a digit, a number, a statistic, a walking bank statement, a coffee run on legs.
Then I'll see the stuck up, pretentious 9 to 5 wankers/shirt & tie brigade plodding along with their cups of coffee in one hand and their briefcases in the other looking absolutely dead inside with nothing going on inside their heads but numbers and figures, totally controlled by money and material possessions. It's a miserable existence that I'm so glad to not be a part of. People watching during morning rush hour is a truly fascinating thing to do. Seriously, try it sometime.
Right now I've been enjoying my freedom, being able to sleep until whenever I want, not having to wake up to an alarm and being free to do whatever I want, whenever I want. I can honestly say that right now, I'm content, happy and enjoying the hell out of life right now. I'm almost always relaxed and have no anxiety, stress or worries. I genuinely do not remember the last time I was stressed out. And I've learned to appreciate so many of the simple things in life. I'm in absolutely no hurry to go back into the miserable, brainwashed, zombie-like world of work right now.
A bird can make a nest in two days, a rat can dig a hole in one night, yet we humans work for over 30 years to pay for a house. Why have we made life so needlessly complicated for ourselves? I've been meaning to do this thread for a while because I'm curious to know how the rest of society feels about this subject. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
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As soon as your savings run out, get your sh*t together. sickens me that my tax dollars will probably help you one day.
Talking down to me in that sanctimonious manner makes you look neither big nor clever, it just makes you look like an arrogant d*ck. Get off your high horse.
The fact that you say my outlook is wrong just shows your sheer arrogance and ignorance, you've just struck me as someone who's really close minded.
I never left college, I didn't go in the first place. Over here it's not a must that you go to college for education. Same with school, after you finish your exams at the end of fourth year, you have the option to leave when you're 16 or you can stay on for another 2 years. I left. I took a few months to unwind after leaving school and then I went right into work. Different people want different things. I'd much rather have a simple job that's fun and that I really enjoy than go for a higher up boring corporate job that stresses me the
out just because it pays a bit more.Seems a bit silly to me that you're getting angry over this, I'm not doing you or anyone else any harm personally by not having a job right now, so why should it bother you? That's another thing that blows my mind, people who take such silly things in life so seriously. We all die in the end, so I'd rather just live in the moment, let the good times roll and enjoy life rather than stress out over things that aren't going to matter when we're gone.
Like I said in another post, of course I'm going to go back to work, that's pretty obvious. I have no intentions of mooching I'm not that delusional nor am I selfish like that. But for right now I'm just really enjoying the feeling of not having to work, it's a very nice position to be in. And it got me thinking about the world as a whole, hence this thread.
And no, your tax dollars won't help me one day, because 1) I'm from the UK and 2) I don't plan on relying on handouts.
