Right now I’m taking a sabbatical for two main reasons:
- My parents are reaching EoL, and as the executor of their estate I’m getting involved in them handing everything off to the rest of us. So this pause in my career couldn’t have come at a better time – how many kids have the opportunity to spend the last year or two of their parent’s lives with them to help them wrap stuff up? Not many.
- My entire industry has gone koo-koo for AI. They are quite literally eliminating entire development divisions in favour of badly hallucinating LLM’s that create some of the shittiest code I have ever seen – it’s worse than having only juniors on staff with no-one else more experienced. So I am waiting out until the inevitable “ZOMG we need to hire everyone back” stage, just like Klarna is doing right now. Because as it is, 60+% of all job postings are ghost ads, with no intent to hire anyone, and the other 40% require applicants to go through 4+ interviews and have ridiculous requirements. Like, no. if the pope was appointed with only two rounds of discussions, your company doesn’t need to rope in 20+ people over multiple interviews and weeks of deliberations to hire my sorry ass.
Remember, if you don’t fit into capitalist society to make line go up faster then you’re considered abnormal. /s
Capitalism is expressly designed for neurotypicals.
If your particular deviancy cannot be monetized for the benefit of those who sign your cheques, you’re worse than useless - you’re actively dangerous to the profit stream flowing upwards to the Parasite Class.
We should invest more in our youth.
Who wants to work 50+ hours a week with no benefits, inconsistent scheduling, and no future to buy a home? Thats the reality for many young people today.
Frankly, the real news is that there aren’t more NEETs. Work is awful, a full time job is worse than dying (and I’ve been on the edge of dying), we’ve deliberately made it as bad as we possibly can and just expect people to deal with it.
Get a new job. Change your life. Don’t go around blaming everyone around you with this nonsense. No work isn’t worse than dying. If you aren’t motivated enough to make things better for your self then obviously things aren’t that bad and you are just being a fucking drama lama.
Llama
what does this even men lol learning a new insult slang
Jeez, why so you find your job so bad? I’m asking because I enjoy mine.
C’mon, you aren’t that sheltered. Work, almost all work, is bad for a multitude of reasons. A solid half of all jobs don’t need to exist to begin with, beyond that the majority of jobs strip away individuality and humanity, take up far too much of your limited time on earth (or take over your life entirely if you’re working a really shitty job), most leave you at the whims of a dark triad psychopath (studies show capitalism rewards psychopaths), are completely mind numbing, and absolutely no real job pays you enough for the bullshit.
I’m not the best one to explain the vast problems nor do i currently have to time (i shoulda been at work, like, 15 minutes ago), but there are many resources you can look into. From scholarly papers to books to YouTube essays if you want to listen on the job.
I enjoy my job too for the most part, but i have to work 50+ hours per week in order to make ends meet and still save enough for the future. I’m so exhausted most of the time from work that my perosnal and social life is significantly impacted. My position is also technically on call but without on call pay and has very inconsistent hours, making adhering to a personal schedule or social plans very difficult.
I love my job but i am overworked, underpaid, understaffed, and under regulated.
Thank you. I have a great job, with people I enjoy working with. It’s relatively safe, pays well, and I get to do interesting and different things almost every day.
But I leave the house at 6am and don’t get back until 5pm, and that’s just because my commute right now is super short. I’m physically exhausted to the point that walking across the street from where I park my car to my porch is embarrassing, as I’ve worked all day and then sat stone still for 30 minutes. I hobble like a 90 year old woman.
If my job was 3 days a week at 10 hours, I think I’d be pretty happy. But my job doesn’t work like that, and if it did then I’d be broke.
I get the end of work day hobble. Some weeks i work 6-7 days a week 10 hours a day. I live alone so chores really grind to halt on weeks like that. Then on my first day off i have to spend half of it doing chores. I wish i could have a better work life balance but i can’t meet my financial goals working less and im not eager to hop into the job market again.
Ive recently moved to a new city and despite being here 2 years, ive not met a single friend outside of work mostly because im too exhausted to socialize and i can’t justify the money going to a bar or something. The inconsistency of my work schedule also makes evening clubs or sports difficult to join as many days i work until 7 or 8 pm and I won’t know that until a day or 2 in advance.
