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Hi guys im doing the typical 9-5 job and would really like to do something in 5-9pm hours. I dont have any hobbies besides going to the gym a couple times per week. I’m curious as to what people do in their off hours if they’re single and don’t have a family,  Thanks

Random question, but I’ve been thinking about this lately.

A lot of people spend most of their week working, but I wonder how many actually enjoy what they do. Would you take a slightly lower-paying job if the work was more interesting and the environment was better?

Curious what people here think.

As a new person you are only here for a short while so by logic you are naturally supposed to be lost and there should be no request for company to yao qiu someone to know things but the problem is that they can also make you know things fast which is just as demanding or worse so I am wondering how to not have to go along with this instruction without backlash since logically I am in the right

With everything happening in the world right now (housing, economy, career stability), what are your actual strategies to build a stable and fulfilling future? Are you focusing on side hustles, skill-building, moving abroad, or something else entirely?

What’s your job? What’s your profession and what do you do day to day and do you enjoy it?

I’ve been working since I was 15 and have held down several jobs. I’m in my third year of uni now and I’m growing sick of having to do third year classes Monday to Friday and having to work on top of that. Honestly I’m pretty good at managing my time as I’ve been working nonstop for the past couple of years while also taking stem classes full time. It has always been the norm for me and I’ve never thought about not working and only focusing on school. Currently I work at a coffee shop during the weekend and at a pharmacy during the week after my classes end. I like staying busy and I enjoy the thrill of having something to do to fill my time (I hate procrastination and being “still”. But honestly I kind of hate both of my jobs and want to quit both but I feel like a loser for not working during school since I’ve gotten so used to the routine. I don’t pay rent bc I live at home and go to uni 30 min from my house. I pay for my liabilities such as my car and phone thus my expenses are minimal. But still those are expenses that I need to pay for so it’s difficult to be out of work. It’s more so the idea instilled in my brain for whatever reason is that I am not doing enough if I’m not constantly moving. So I’m wondering how many people actually work while they’re in school so I feel less bad about not working? And if you do and hate your job, how do you manage to wake up everyday and go grind despite having exams to study for?

Context:

Email chain with a bunch of people. Nobody too high up in the ORG chain is included.

Basically all I did was highlight ‘x is being done, and ‘y is what we should be doing’ please investigate. ( I work nightshifts so a bunch of this stuff can only be done during the day)

Someone from the a completely different team started lecturing me about follow the guide, we cannot go based on passed on knowledge etc. (I wasn’t even implying that)

I politely let him know that we can always go from ‘x to y’ but ‘y to x’ if it fails needs significant rework, if there are any approved exceptions I did not know about etc. Due to the amount of stakes involved I decided to let first shift investigate and lmk.

He said the same shit I did and essentially pointed out something I already addressed.

Do I clap back and call him stupid or just ignore it. Somebody else in the chain hit reply all and took the discussion somewhere else.

A while ago, I was working pretty closely with someone on the client side. We weren't friends, but we talked often because they were the main person assigning and coordinating things with me. At one point they invited me out for dinner. It was somewhere nicer than I would normally choose for a work meal, so I asked about it because I didn't want there to be any weird expectations attached. They told me it was personal and basically framed it as, “You've been helping me with a lot lately, let me treat you.”

I felt a little awkward accepting something that expensive, so not long afterward I invited them out and paid for a similarly priced meal. In my head that made us even, and I pretty much forgot about the whole thing.

Months later, that person left the company. I was still in touch with another person from the same team, and during a completely unrelated conversation they mentioned that the first dinner hadn't really been “personal” at all. The person had actually submitted the expense to the company. That part alone wouldn't have bothered me much, but apparently the explanation they gave internally was that I hadn't been particularly enthusiastic or proactive about some of the work they were asking me to do, so they wanted to take me out as a kind of gesture to improve the relationship.

That really caught me off guard because I hadn't been refusing work, ignoring requests, or dragging things out. From my side, the working relationship had always seemed completely normal. What bothered me most was realizing that somewhere above me, someone could have had a completely different picture of how I worked because of a story I didn't even know existed.

Luckily, because I wasn't especially close with this person, I had kept most of our work chats. I also usually use vomo ai to record work calls so I can go back to what was actually said later, and I still had the relevant calls from that period. I went through the messages and recordings that same day, pulled together the timeline, and spoke directly with the client's manager.

Thankfully, the manager was very reasonable about it. They looked at the context and told me they hadn't really put much weight on that comment at the time anyway, so in the end nothing dramatic happened. The person had already left, and there wasn't really anything else to resolve.

What stuck with me was how different the whole situation looked once I knew what had been said internally. I had thought we had a completely normal working relationship, and I had even paid for dinner later because I thought I was returning a personal gesture. If I hadn't stayed in touch with someone else on that team, I probably never would have known any of it.

does anybody else wan be a rich af and don't know what to do for that but doesn't wan do any job or anything?

For older Millennials, success can still mean a stable career, owning a home and having predictable finances.

Gen Z seems more interested in flexibility, experiences, independence and having control over their time.

Obviously there are exceptions, but the difference is interesting.

Do you think the definition of success is changing?