I don't plan on it

Real

Wage cucks am I right

I have no debt and I work a job that brings me a sense of meaning in my life via helping those who need it most. It impacts my immediate and local community in ways that are easy to see. My immediate boss and really all of the management team are also incredibly kind-hearted, down to earth, empathetic, and hard working people. So it's a joy to work for them tbh.

So I am happy with my job.

I should still have less hours and more pay but thats a different thread.

Just another business damaging the environment lol. Dont take shells from the beach

I don't

Pretty much everyone of consequence worked some s***ty job until they broke out.

The trick is to remain perpetually dissatisfied until you get what you really want. Once you're OK with it, you're not likely to do anything else. There are too many risks and too much work involved in shifting gears.

wait didn't you just answer your own question

ain’t no debt, lad.

I don’t have the resources I need to start my own business. So for now I’ll work and create connections to benefit me later.

You got it backwards. People naturally are going to want to do something. People think it’s about wanting to sit at home all day nothing. That’s not the point. The point is we as a society could have made this economy a lot more humane and less unequal. People want to not stress about if they will have enough food in the fridge or enough money to pay off a car problem or spend experiences with their kids.Literally people want less of the government budget to be given to the military and more into education and green solutions. Heck, we COULD be living in a green society rn but we are forever 100 years behind due to the current system.

If you're working in a field that holds no long term interest for you, this makes sense. Go hard for the things you really love. There are only so many hours in the day.

I'm not that emotionally invested in my job. It's a decent job, but if I'm still in this position decades from now, I failed. There are other ambitions I have for my life.

How so? I didn't ask how to get out of a life like that. I already know how because I'm not living that life anymore. I'm trying to understand people who are ok with living a life like that.

Yes dear

Well anyway thats my answer. Im probably not going to work that long cause hopefully this civilisation ends before that

real. need work from home to stay. I do 1 real hour of work then do whatever I want for the remaining day

I disagree. I don't think the majority of people want to work and see their work help someone else. I also don't think the majority of people even want to work. I know too many people that dropout or push d**** etc and are happy at some dead end s***.

I agree that, especially in the U.S, we need subsidization, socialist policies and (most importantly) an equitable society that's balanced across the classes. I don't think the issue is that work is adding the stress of your car payments or health bills. That's a failure of the U.S capitalist system that benefits the morally bankrupt. It isn't just work. It's a feature of the selfish society the U.S has always been known for and that s*** started before we were even a country.

But this thread isn't about that, it's about the concept of working 40 hours a week which I will happily do if it's engaging enough not to make my life suffer. Those 40 hours feel productive when I'm doing lab work, or physical work at my internship and hopefully soon career. And I get home and feel great knowing I got a pocket full of money so I can take my friends and family out to eat.

If I didn't have that to do, I'd literally be doing nothing. And that feels like s***, I'm the type of person that either needs to be working or in school.

But I'd rather do nothing than waste 40 hours in some warehouse with a manager over my shoulder making sure I don't sit down or have a 20 minute break god forbid or be told not to use my phone like a 5 year old. Rather be a hobo actually

real, same pretty much

im feeling like theyre gonna try to bring us back to the office in a few months though

Working 40+ hours a week for 40 years for rest of your life May not be that bad or absolutely terrible depending on number of things. As an accounting major who just got an internship who’ll be working the typical 9-5 this summer, it’ll be important to consider my decisions of doing bigger and better things down the road (maybe like 10 years later). At the same time though, tackling on entrepreneurship or ventures that allows for “financial” freedom requires skills that only few people are capable of excelling it. Even with opening a business, majority end up failing whether it be due to timing, poor management, bad ideas, etc. So that’s something to consider

Personally, engaging in the typical work lifestyle like @plants does where the management isn’t problematic, great benefits, nice coworkers, making a difference, etc. (Most importantly it aligns with your passion n interests)Is great and I think it’s still very good. On the other hand if s*** is super corporate, very tasking, people being fake as s***, then depending on your personality dump that s*** and move on. While sure at first you’ll have to throw in 80+ hours per week at the start and eat s*** for the first several years, in the long run it’ll pay off and you’ll be happier (this ofc always varies).

ow man now i wanna kms lmfao

When you have things like a mortgage or even want one you find a way

I only plan on working til I’m 35/40

I'd rather start a family and work 40+ hours a week paying off a mortgage + loans than be a bum

maybe work a little longer and share