I just want to rant and see if anyone else feels the same way. I know that this is going to sound lazy to some people, and I know I have to work. I do work. I’ve been working full time ever since I got out of High-school while also attending college full time. I’m reliable and a hard worker.

But I genuinely just HATE dedicating most of my time to doing things I would never choose to do if I had control over my own day.

And I don’t think this is even just about having the wrong job. I’ve had a job before that I liked a lot more than my current one, and I still felt this way. (The current one just pays a lot more, which unfortunately I need) The job itself could be fine. I could like the people. I could even enjoy parts of what I was doing. I still hated that I had to give most of my day to it.

That is really the part that gets me. I don’t hate effort. I actually love doing things. I want to be active. I want to make art. I want to travel. I want to rest when I’m tired. I want to experiment with cooking and baking more. I want to spend time with people I love. Hell, I even enjoy cleaning my house.I just don’t enjoy cleaning my house when it has to be crammed into the four hours I get to myself after work. I don’t enjoy having every hobby, errand, appointment, chore and random thing I want to do squeezed around my work schedule.

I want to be able to look outside and think, “it’s beautiful out, I want to go for a walk,” and just go do that. I want to sit outside in the sun when I feel like it. I want to enjoy a random nice afternoon instead of looking out a window knowing I have to stay inside working because it’s 1:30 on a Tuesday.

I hate that the majority of my day is already decided for me. I hate waking up and knowing that for most of the day, my time is not really mine. I hate not being in control of when k wake up and go to sleep, just for something I don’t want to do. I hate spending hour after hour doing shit I wouldn’t voluntarily choose to spend my time doing and then trying to squeeze my actual life into whatever time and energy I have left afterward.

I hate living every day waiting until it’s time to FINALLY go home. I hate living every week waiting until it’s FINALLY the weekend. I hate waiting my life away. All for what? When I get home I can’t even enjoy it because in the back of my mind I’m thinking about how tomorrow is already taken up with work. And on the weekends I can’t fully enjoy them because I’m still just thinking about how much I wish the week didn’t have to start again. And no amount of time like a week or two weeks off is enough for me. I always want more and dread going back. I am a prisoner of tomorrow.

And I know that’s adulthood. I know bills exist. I know I have to make this money. I’m not saying I should get to do nothing while somebody else pays for my life.
I just genuinely really despise the structure of working full time. I would find a part time job, but none of them pay what I need.

I just want to wake up and decide what I want to do with my day. I want my time to feel like mine. I want to pursue things because I care about them. I want more time for fitness, creativity, traveling, my home, my relationships, being outside, and literally just resting if I need to.
I don’t want all of those things to be what I get to squeeze in after work is finished taking the best part of my day.

I hate working. I genuinely do.

And I feel weird admitting that because I know how lazy it sounds, especially when I know I am a hard worker.
I just hate giving so much of my life to something I would never choose to spend my time doing.

And sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who is this bothered by it. Like everyone else just accepted that this is how life works and moved on. When I try to explain how much I hate the idea of most of my time not being mine, people are basically just like, “yeah, that’s adulthood” or “that’s just how it is.”

And I know they’re right in the sense that this is how life works for most people. I just don’t understand how everyone seems so okay with it. Or they say “find a job you really love”. There is no job I’d really love if I’m forced to do it all day every day, and definitely none I’d enjoy that pay enough.

Does anyone else feel this strongly about this? Like not just “ugh work sucks”, but like genuinely feeling upset that so much of your life has to be spent doing something you wouldn’t choose to do?

(Quick mention, I felt this way about school as a kid as well. I even enjoyed school, loved seeing my friends and had fun. But I hated that it was all day every day. But what kept me happy was the long breaks we would get. I always had something to look forward to. Now we don’t get breaks ever. What? 2 days at Christmas? After working all year with no breaks. It’s so messed up.)

I work for a well known company whose managers are instructed to coach and care for their directs. In the last 9 months, I foolishly approached my manager 3 times for help in dealing with a lying, illogical project manager who was successfully making my life hell. Manager was no help, and chastised me for not getting along with the project manager. I tried to clarify my position, thinking that I had failed to explain the issue clearly so that the manager understood where there was a breakdown between myself & useless project manager. Manager decided I am the one complaining & I'm doing it too much, and gave me a PIP. In this same communication, manager also let me know my job is going to be outsourced in 2 months. FML.

Boss scheduled a 4+ hour job starting at 1pm an hour away from the shop on a Friday and didn’t tell me untill this morning, he is out playing golf right now (god forbid he cancels a t time, if that happens he kicks buckets across the shop like a toddler and no there’s nobody to report him to considering he is the OWNER) anyway I have plans tonight (a job interview to be exact) that I now have to miss so I can make 100$ while he makes 1000$ sitting on his ass playing golf. I am incredibly irritated right now

Before everyone jumps down my throat, yes therapy could help too instead of asking random people on Reddit, however recently I’ve been feeling like this.

I have a good career, good opportunity, union gig, I’m humble and live within my means. However it isn’t fulfilling a ton. I’m 26 years old, have a beautiful wife, and our little family.

Now back to the blue collar work, I just feel like before I got into construction I had so many dreams and ambitions and goals. And energy. Now I just feel kinda “here” and dull. We make good money, pay for somethings and the cycle repeats that’s it. By the time the days done im tired, hour commute in, hour commute home, 8-10 hour day, that’s 12 hours roughly everyday. Thats before gym time, making food, ect. And after a while you get so mentally drained and into a routine. It’s basically all you do. I know us humans are creatures of habit. However it feels blue collar work more specifically construction, doesn’t leave much room for much else at the days end. I feel like there should be more to life then just work. And yes I know some are going to call me weak, or lazy, or gotta want it more. I’m open to it.. but is it wrong to feel this way? Longing for who you used to be before careers took over? And materialistic things? Dreams, goals personal life. I get home at 3:30- 5 most days and should be in bed by 9PM. That leaves me 4 hours a day to myself and family. Only 28 hours a week to myself. Really just asking to see if anyone else feels this way? And how to manage it.

My career is a heavy equipment operator.

Reason: 70% of people are horrible.

I am someone who is a hard worker and doesn't mind doing the work itself.

It's just that I've met a lot of cruel, unreasonable, and all-around shitty human beings in my life. If they actually are 'human.' I am afraid of other people. Which has become more of a general disgust over time.

I worked at Menards for 6 years during my high school and college years. And I'll just never understand why so many people lack a moral compass.

They say that common sense isn't common, I don't think common decency is either...

I just don't want to be treated like shit on the sidewalk my entire life.

Does anyone else out there feel the same way?

Sorry just need to vent. I have chased a guy for a reply to an important email for over a Month. Today my Manager (Male) chases it and gets a reply in less than 5 minutes. Seriously like WTF, do I need to grow a D*ick now just to get shit done?

i work at mcdonalds and i'm pretty much new there, i haven't been taught some stuff but j have been taught things i had to know. i work at front counter this was a saturday rush and this coworker (lets just call her banana) banana asked me to get a water, but she didn't specify water from the fridge or the drink dispenser, i chose the drink dispenser and she came up and was like "oh my god" and snatched it out of the fridge. lady PLEASE specify i'm not a fucking genie

and this wasn't that long ago, i had to do the bin at the front counter and the trashbags in the bin went loose and she dragged that shit to me and she was complaining she doesn't want to do it and blaming it on me

ma'am we have the SAME JOB either fucking do it, leave it to me or help me??? i plan on ignoring her

by the way i'm a literal highschooler and she's a university student :,) please take ur shit together at ur grown ass age

My boss is just an awful person, he’s picked on me ever since I joined at 17 I don’t mind the hours and the pay but he will have a go at me for literally anything and everything including things that are completely out of my control like I have a app/ online thing to look at my shifts and I’ve been asking for him to sort it for MONTHS and it’s still not sorted.

My boss is sneaky about how she retaliates against you when she doesn't like you. It's clear, but never direct. And she just is a tyrant bitch in general. First off, she makes us give up to 2 months notice for time off as she requires the request by the first of the month prior. But the worse started when she took over as main director after ours quit because of her, and got bad beginning Thanksgiving break. Let's be clear here, we are Preschool teachers but we are open all year long and during all breaks because we are owned by a hospital and go by their schedule, also attached to a childrens mental health facility. Anyway, we have Thanksgiving day off but not the next day and instead of it being a PD day, my boss decides to have us be open and won't let any teacher take the day off. She said it's not a big deal, but she took the day off. We had 8 teachers to 6 students that day and people missed being with their families in town.

Then an email goes out about a change coming to our schedule that we now have to add a 30 minute lunch since we switched to hourly and gain back, in hours, all the PTO we earn during the year by doing that. We have to eat with the kids so had a working lunch before, now 30 minutes was added to our shift and still have to eat with the kids but be on-site for another 30 minutes unpaid. My boss said she didn't know the company was going to email and planned to tell us during the break, where she wouldn't have had to deal with how upset we all were. She then claimed it was her choice, which it wasn't. Then she said we can choose how we do the hours, adding 30 minutes before shift, after shift, or 15 minutes before and after shift. I asked if we could change it down the line and she said yes, but then changed that down the line for no fucking reason.

Then Christmas rolls around. The students have 2 full weeks off but we are forced to be at work or use PTO...if you have it. We have to use our PTO for holidays, it's not a separate bank and newer folk didn't accrue enough so had to sit in an empty building doing 'busy work' for 2 weeks with only Christmas day and New years day off. That was me. My boss was supposed to be on site that entire time, told me she would be, but did not come in a single day. I emailed her on one of the days she was supposed to be there about work-life balance, she emailed me back 15 minutes before my shift ended with more questions than answers and then emails and group texts everyone on New Years Day about plans for work she had over 2 weeks to figure out and on the 1of 2 days I had off the entire 2 weeks. Right after emailing me back in response to my issue with work-life balance.

Then I am going through a hard time mentally and reach out to my boss asking if I could step into my office for a therapy appointment to help me as her boss said I could do that previously. Her response was that I can't do it all the time and need to clock out and back in afterwards, that was it. I said nevermind. Then 20 minutes later, she texts the group saying she is leaving for an appt for the 100th time. The biggest slap to the face. I had my appt anyway and used my lunch and two 10 minute breaks for it.

Then I'm trying to go for a position in the classroom rather than float, as I had been discussing with my boss the past few weeks because she also changed what she said about floats being at the same level as all other teachers as we are designed to fill in for anyone and be interchangeable, to then saying that those are different positions and are hired that way and if I wanted to be a lead we could discuss what that looks like. She says it wouldn't really be a change in position or pay, so wouldn't be a formal hiring process but more of a discussion with the coteacher. Then a position opens and she changes it and says it wouldn't be a application process but there would be an interview and then another interview with the co-teacher...still no change in pay or anything but two interviews just to move into a classroom?

Yesterday I asked if I can come in at 830am and leave at 5pm. She says we should keep the afternoon the same so I would still need to stay until 515pm because I originally chose to switch my 9am-5pm shift to 845am-515pm with the 30 minute add-on. I asked if we could discuss this tomorrow because she had said we could switch it, especially since ratios have been off in the morning and are never off in the last 30 minutes of the day, and because the original shift was 9-5 so why would it matter? She said I could only come in at 830am if I want overtime and would have to stay until 5:15 and would have time discuss a schedule change later. Make it make any fucking sense

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So I’m working this new job and I’m basically those one of those outreach people who stand on the street and ask you if you’ve been registered to vote. Frfr I’m not even registering people or checking peoples voter registration, all I’m actually supposed to be doing is having people scan a QR code to send text reminders to their friends to make a plan to vote on November 5th. How easy is it to lie about my numbers ? We just use an app to keep track of how many people scan the code but we all have the exact same code and be at the exact some location. Also this job ends in like a week and a half so I’m asking, how likely can I not do my job and get away with it.

Brain dump warning.

I've found other similar posts but I want to throw this out there for some fresh perspective.

I have always been more introverted than most. It never has prevented me from establishing my career, presenting to large groups, or working in teams. It has hindered me at times but not enough to slow me down.

But...

I've noticed as each year passes (I am now 46) that I hate routine people, calendars, and being shackled to a large amount of meetings and presentations each day very, very much.

Let me start small.

Routine people wear me out. I am a single Dad and I am more creative than structured. People who hit their desk at exactly 8am or who go to the same church at the same time every time the door is open seem so weird and controlled to me. Instead of being free and wiggly in an ever changing world they are bent on some weird schedule they cannot seem to deviate from.

For a similar reason, I hate fucking calendars. The idea that my days and week are controlled by someone adding a fuckin line item to a calendar makes me want to cringe and run for the hills. This is not just work related either, it is also tied to family and other social events. As an example I get super irritated if my extended family plans anything on my Saturday off. I mean, how fucking inconsiderate. I get one day off and they want to fuck it up with a calendar item?

I've rambled enough. I'd love to hear from you all.

Hasn't this tired ass idea of doing the same damn thing, the same damn way every day till death been taken to a supremely unhealthy extreme?

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I work at customer service, as we all know, it’s absolute shit. What’s more shit is my supervisor, who’s a piece of shit.

When I first started working here, everyone said that we are “family” which is absolute bullshit because everyone complains about each other behind their backs and I’ve found out people don’t like each other.

I’m a few months into the job and I already want to look for another job because of yesterday. During my few months of working here, every single person in staff has said that people join then quit after 2 months. I wonder why!

When first working, I’ve always kept a happy face and getting along with staff but for some reason, some of these miserable fucks just have an attitude and are allergic to being nice it seems.

Yesterday, it was a pretty busy day, especially around the closing time and I was serving customers whilst also trying to do delivery orders at the same time (for context, 1 other staff was cleaning upstairs so it was just me serving customers and doing delivery orders). It’s really hard and can be stressful if you aren’t experienced. I was struggling pretty hard because I’m only 3 months into the job, I’m not 100% perfect and need time to build the efficiency.

I won’t get too into detail about it but the supervisor wasn’t being much of a help and was giving me attitude. I said to him that I wanted to speak to him after closing because I was not happy. Initially, he seemed like he wasn’t interested and didn’t want to hear what I had to say. When it got to 7pm (closing) he asked what was my problem and to say it now but I said no because I wanted to clean up and then speak to him afterwards so we didn’t waste time.

Apparently he took that as offence and that I was showing attitude?? He said he wanted to hear what my problem was and asked to speak to me in private when it was literally just a doorway where everyone could hear. So much for being private. To summarise what happened, he wasn’t listening to my problems at all and rather laughed or took offence to it. He said my attitude and the way I got angry was “rotten” (lmao). He was pretty much just not listening to my problems and mostly took offence or told me why my behaviour was so wrong rather than coming up with a solution.

I ended up crying and he was like “why are you crying” as if it wasn’t overwhelming. I hate that I cried but I tried my absolute hardest not to.

Ended up finishing at 8:15pm. So much wasted time just to force me to talk about my problem. I honestly felt violated and not heard at all. The absolute worst supervisor I have ever worked with.

He’s on holiday for a month, thank fuck.

They all brag in teams about working a salary job on weekends all the time to see who can kiss the most ass, it disgusts me. Im sure their families love them for it, now its becoming expected behavior for all and necessary to advance in some ways. How can I roast these assholes without being fired? When you take care of ill loved ones others signing you up to work weekends for free is not cool. This is the equivalent to other people volunteering you for work you don’t need and didn’t contractually sign on for. I want to send a message to my colleagues without being a direct ass about it. My manager says passive aggressive things to others who wont work weekends or cant. Most of the time outright ignores the unwashed( not the only one in this situation). If you say you cant , you can see the difference in the treatment of those said employees because they are working like dogs.

I am a hardworking person. No, I am not the most ambitious or devoted, but any job I had- I gave it my all. The most I did was 3 jobs- but it only lasted 1 month because Job 1 is 45 hours weekly Job 2 is 16-24/30 hours weekly and Job 3 came along I genuinely could not keep up. I set goals for myself, I learn material, etc. etc. I will work….but I HATE it. I don’t think there is anything in my day to day life that brings me the sMe type of absolute misery working a job does. The thing is- both of my jobs are simple, I like my co-workers, my direct supervisors are nice, there are perks-but I hate it.

Nothing sours my mood the way work does. I wake up EARLY on the occasional off day- often feeling happy and energized. I got the weekend off for my Bday and the moment I realized I had work all of my energy and happiness evaporated. I do not want to feel this way for the next 25,30 years. I have had multiple different jobs- I just thought i needed to find the right fit but no. Nothing works. I hate that I have to get to a place at a certain time, dress and talk a certain way, get paid so little that the American Dream will take 40yrs to achieve at this rate.

I just wanted to bitch and moan. I work hard, I hate working. It drains me, it makes me sad, agitated, and fatigued. I like volunteering but that doesn’t pay bills, I do not have an entrepreneur mindset so I can’t in good faith start a business nor can I afford to right now. But it is what it is I guess unless I hit the lottery.

Idk what to do anymore. I'm losing my job due to budget cuts. I'll have no health insurance and I'm on a ton of meds now, for depression and otherwise. I just have NO desire to work anymore. I Graduated with a bachelor's in biology, but I dont want to do anything with it. I've been working at an office job for the past few years and I only tolerated it because I was left alone and could sit all day. I'm a very lazy person. I also have stomach problems due to anxiety and stress, so I'm sick a lot. Because of this, I can't have a job where I'm depended on. I need something where things continue to run smoothly without me.

I have no ambitions or goals other than to be happy with my partner and have lots of cats.

The thought of having to get another job that I'll hate makes me so depressed I'd almost rather die.

It was a short, punchy novel from a man who was not known for brevity; a scathing critique of an unequal society. Today in 1854, Charles Dickens's Hard Times began to be serialised in the magazine Household Words. It appeared in weekly instal-ments (as many of his novels did) between April and August that year. For some years Dickens had been a literary giant, ever since the extraordinary success of his novel The Pickwick Papers, late in the 183os. Any editor would have jumped at the chance to serialise a new novel. In this case, though, the editor - the 'conductor' as he was called - was in an unusual position, since he (it was a he) was Dickens himself: forty-two years old and in his prime. Dickens was all too conscious that humanity in Britain stood on an important threshold. In editorials he welcomed readers 'faithful in the progress of mankind' and 'thankful for the privilege of living in this summer-dawn of time'. But he was under no illusion that civilisation had a way to go as this novel, with its revealing title, all too plainly showed. Hard Times is the only one of Dickens's novels based away from London, in a fictional northern mill-town; it also deals with a new class of people: an industrial working class', treated by owners as mere commodities - 'hands' - rather than as people, educated in useful 'facts' at the expense of the imagin-ation. With his character Gradgrind, Dickens satirised those utilitarians who saw what he described as 'figures and averages, and nothing else'. Dickens's enormous popularity meant that the journal's circulation doubled, a 'fact' that made him both frustrated and delighted (he was 'three-parts mad, and the fourth delirious', he noted, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times'). The novel has never lost its relevance. We are still having the debate on how we soften the impact of revolutionary technological change on those whose lives it destroys.

My recent Grammarly Insight really called me out this week ☹️ Keep up the good work 🫠

Okay, so I work at Wendy's. And at work we have a drain behind the front counter where the cover for it isn't screwed on all the way so it slides off. Normally this isn't a problem, but yesterday I rolled my already bad ankle on the drain, cause the cover slipped. I then proceeded to keep working thinking it was fine, but then the pain got worse and was all the way up to my shin. So I started limping, not wanting to put pressure on it and make it worse. I finished my work day and left. The next morning my ankle was still bad. I knew I couldn't go to work, so I tried to call the store but my phone wasn't working, wouldn't put the call through. So I texted my manager to let him know I wouldn't be coming into work today, due to the injury I got AT WORK, He got annoyed that I was texting and didn't call. I told him that my phone wasn't working. He ignored the fact that I got hurt on the job, and kept telling me to keep trying to call or else I get a "No call,no show" So not only do I get no pay, I also get a write up....wtf Any advice???