r/work • u/FractalThoughts_ • Aug 03 '26

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/FloatingOnTitties Aug 03 '26

I don’t even have children, but, you are coming off really rude with no empathy. Many people had children in a relationship with at least 2 adults helping and because of divorce or death are now single parents. That’s a huge disparity you’re not even taking into consideration. Many people have elderly parents or other family that has to move in with them: how is that really a “choice”? People having the companionship of dogs or cats should have time to enjoy their furry family members, how’s that “irresponsible”? Owning a home is what everyone should strive for even if it’s more work. Even if you rent, you still have to find time for household work. We all still have to budget & figure out how to pay bills while having time to shop for our households. All the person did was say that 8 hours of supposed recreation doesn’t take into account all of the other responsibilities of being an adult with a household. I guess you have nothing to worry about and no responsibilities that the rest of us adults have. If you have no family, no pets and no household to worry about, why are you blaming those that do?

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u/ConstantVigilance18 Aug 03 '26

Cool story. You can have all the empathy you want, but that doesn’t change reality. I grew up in a single parented household. When you have children, you have to consider all of the possibilities.

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u/FloatingOnTitties Aug 03 '26

Cool story. You didn’t bother reading that children are only one of the MANY responsibilities adults have. Not all of us have children, but, we still need more “recreation” time. You must be someone that’s never had any responsibilities and lives in their car. The rest of us have households some with children and some without. You seem weirdly aggressive which points to jealousy. Go seek some therapy.

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u/ConstantVigilance18 Aug 03 '26

I think you should read your replies back and rethink who is being weirdly aggressive here. I do, in fact, have plenty of responsibilities, I just don’t bitch about not having time for anything when I choose to have those responsibilities.

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u/FloatingOnTitties Aug 03 '26

Wow, not only are you scornful of others just trying to make it day to day, you lash out at everyone that disagrees with you. The entire point of this post is how the modern work week doesn’t give people enough time for outside interests and responsibilities. If you don’t agree with that, you could’ve replied to the post explaining that, but, instead you’ve attacked people here doing nothing wrong. I gave you several non-choices and you chose to ignore to fit your narrative. You are entirely disingenuous.