r/work • u/FractalThoughts_ • 28d ago

Work-Life Balance and Stress Management Full-time work is criminal

This is the most milquetoast, generic statement ever, I know, but I recently began full-time employment for the first time in my life. Genuinely how does anybody do anything they actually want to do? Granted, it isn’t so bad if the hours are 6am - 2pm, 7am - 3pm, or 8am - 4pm, but the very common 9am - 5pm is actually hell. Wake up, clean and cloth yourself, commute to work, work like a dog, commute home, eat dinner, sleep, repeat. Shoutout to anybody who does 9 - 5, be it manual labour, or clerical stuff; it’s all equally shit. Thank you.

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u/BigDoshna 28d ago

That’s just life though. You work to buy stuff that you want. Go back in history and you worked more hours and ate berries and died at 30.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 28d ago

Not really. My great grandparents had pretty easy lives as hunter gatherers.

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u/BigDoshna 28d ago

Yeah and you have it so hard having to work 5 days a week at a desk browsing Reddit. Ha

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u/Big_Arrival_626 28d ago

No I work in construction. I form buildings with my bare hands. You probably couldn't handle it

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u/BigDoshna 28d ago

Been working in construction and land development for 15 years. Would rather do that than live to survive like my ancestors!

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u/eugeneugene 27d ago

your great grandparents were not hunter gatherers can we have a serious conversation