Get up at 6. Work will 6. 1hr to make dinner. 2 hrs awake with wife. Go to bed at 9. Wake up at 530 and cry for 30 min.
Rerpeat adinfinium until i finally die. This is no way to live.
If you move out to the country you can retire in a very comfortable air conditioned tent on a fully self-sufficient one-acre farm for like $8k, and that includes the cost of the land.
You could afford to work part time remotely and still live a life of luxury compared to our ancestors.
Why are you working for hours every day just to give all that money to some landlord? Move off-grid and enjoy your life. If more people did that, the supply of work would decrease and unions could negotiate for higher pay for less hours.
Find me land for $8k within reasonable distance of an area with tech jobs please.
You can work remotely, and also I thought the point was to avoid work?
I’m working towards just this, not a tent necessarily but a very small house/shack, gonna get some dogs and chickens and probably work at a local grocery or do art until I die.
I am not making much progress. I wonder who tf is buying houses.
I’m working towards just this, not a tent necessarily but a very small house/shack
Nice, good luck! My uncle lives in a tiny home out in the boonies, and seems to enjoy it. He grows beans and sells fridge magnets on Etsy.
You could buy a place like this in full, with some solar panels, a bed, and mini-fridge after two years and some change working minimum wage. It’s not glamorous at all but it’s a chill af way to live life away from all the stress.
I wonder who tf is buying houses.
I know it’s a rhetorical question, but 50% of millennials own a home in the US, mostly in small rural areas and suburbs.
Both capitalists and tankies want you to believe that you have to work until you die, but it’s just not true. Don’t give in to the doomers!
You could afford to work part time remotely
If you’re a professional that even has that option. Factory workers and blue collar schmucks like myself are chained to a radius around available work :(
This is no way to live.
I wonder what would happen if everyone who felt this way all at once just decided to stop. All at once, everyone turns around and goes home. How many people would it be? Half? 3/4? Most of them?
We almost got to experience a change when Covid hit, the only bright spot, but it was soon eclipsed by corporate buzzwords and inspirational music montages on powerpoint telling us how happy we are to return to offices and ten hours of driving and 1/8 of our paycheck on gas every goddamn week so we can sit in a visible place while we waste time reading emails that don’t pertain to us and attending meetings about initiatives that are meant only to make the shareholders think we’re doing something.
Shareholders who attend the meetings via Zoom at that.
Suck dick for a living. Much more free time.
I can’t really be bothered to do my own marketing and STD vetting.
Get a pimp
Amazon sell those?
I prefer to be choosy about the dicks I suck
Not what I heard
😘
Ok then no more gaming for you mr. wontsuckdickformoney
That’s Ms Sucksthechoicestdicksforcashonly to you
No but it does get worse after you have kids. Ah who am I kidding, this is a greentext post.
But then you get kids. Definitely better than video games.
Father of 3 kids under 6, I still play an hour or so a day, some weekends I get a night to play with friends.
And I have time for work in commercial electrician. Come home to work on my garden, chickens, greenhouse, and hang with the kids and family.
Going to be doing my own solar in the next week or two. Tonight going to a mtg mh3 event with a friend to play some magic.
All weekend to chill with my children, wife, and enjoy some parks. Once kids are asleep I’ll watch a movie with my wife.
Life is good. Time for everything.
Are you guys dual income though? How do you have time to keep your home clean? I don’t even have kids but with full time work I struggle.
I’m full time (40 hours) and my wife is a stay at home mom. She might work in the summer for delta airlines as a gate agent but that’s if the season allows for it. Either way that income is less than $5k for the year so it’s not for the money, but the flight benefits.
The home being clean… Well we let a lot of things get surface dirty because cleaning after the kids is a full time job in and of itself. We’ll deep clean once a week, dishes are cleaned right away, toys after you’re done, beds, sheets, carpets and deep floor weekly. We got a system. My wife does an amazing job. I make sure our vacuums work lol.
Agree on the taking care of the place full time job piece! My partner and I are just starting to think about kids, and are most worried about the extra work in making sure things stay clean enough to be safe.
Granted, I’ve had a whole lot of health issues (just completed surgery 5/5 in the last 5 years) so a lot of home maintenance fell by the wayside. We’re also both full time (42 hours minimum) and on top of that I have at least 4 medical appointments weekly still, so we are just in the process of getting a system going.
Thank you for sharing what works for you!
Yep I got one and videogames aren’t even in my radar. I don’t even have a gaming computer anymore
Hah they still actually look forward to playing the game, instead of just playing it to fill the time.
I buy them to pretend I’m happy. Not that I have time to be happy.
It’s easy! Just take 100% of your free time and throw it away on a far-off dream so you’re completely exhausted. Go into debt trying to get a fancy degree to maybe increase your earning potential.
More seriously, if you feel you’re in the same position:
If you’re privileged enough and have the willpower, you might be able to find a happier work environment (though it requires sacrificing your already meager free time by searching for jobs constantly for 6-12 months or more). I know folks for whom that’s paid off - very impressed with them. May also be some online courses or community colleges around that could open doors.If your situation is impossible, I’m sorry. I feel for you.
Fucking pathetic. I hope you don’t actually feel this way, mindset is literally the biggest obstacle.
Seeing reality for what it is and not giving up is the opposite of pathetic. Pathetic is assuming someone who sees life that way is going to be overcome by their mindset. Denial isn’t necessary to function.
Feel what way?
I am privileged and happy. I do believe folks who are not happy should consider investing their time understanding other potential available opportunities including work, training, and higher education.
Obviously a, say, severely disabled person whose paycheck is captured by their abusive partner cannot apply my advice, so in that nearly impossible situation I sympathize.
Wait until he goes without work or videogames for a while.
I mean if anything, surely that justifies their claim of wage slavery even more no?
Indeed, and I’m not saying his pain doesn’t exist, but I am making it very clear that it can be much much worse.
This is 100% truth.
When you’re young, you have a lot of free time and no money to enjoy that time
When you get into a career, you have money, and no time.
When you retire, you have money and time (to some extent), but you’re old and likely not able to enjoy things nearly as much as you would have been able to when you were younger (generally due to body aches and whatnot).
Being middle/lower “class”, you’re basically fucked.
Narrator: No, it doesn’t.
It surely gets better if you can make the necessary changes to your life to improve this.
I never hear anyone talk like this who doesn’t live in the suburbs with a huge commute. I live in a city and can get to work in 15 minutes without a car.
My schedule is:
- 6:00am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
- 6:45am: Leave for work.
- 7:00am: Arrive at work.
- 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
- 4:00pm: Leave work.
- 4:15pm: Arrive home and unwind.
- 5:00pm: Workout.
- 5:30pm: Prepare Dinner.
- 6:15pm: Eat Dinner.
- 6:45: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
- 7:00pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
- 10:00pm: Go to bed
That gives me a full 6 hours between finishing work and going to bed. If I choose an easy dinner, I hardly have to do anything less than fun after work, and I work in a cool part of town so I don’t actually have to go commute anywhere. I can be drinking at a bar within 5 minutes of clocking out, and I don’t have to drive home. Any other errands I make in a week are within walking distance of my home or work.
Before I moved, my schedule was:
- 5:45am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
- 6:30am: Leave for work.
- 8:00am: Arrive at work.
- 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
- 5:00pm: Leave work.
- 6:30pm: Arrive home and unwind.
- 7:00pm: Prepare Dinner.
- 7:45pm: Eat Dinner.
- 8:15pm: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
- 8:30pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
- 9:45pm: Go to bed
So that gave me an entire 3.25 hours after getting home, giving me no time to fit a workout in without giving up other leisure activities. This doesn’t even factor in that everywhere else I needed to run errands was a 15-30 minute drive away.
I’ve had some pretty long commutes in the past because my work location changes every few years. I enjoy the work, though, so that helps, but I’ve still been feeling the OP lately. I’m in my late 30s and I don’t have kids and “fun” doesn’t really do it for me anymore. More and more I need to feel like I’m doing something worthwhile instead of aimless hedonism. I’ll figure it out, though, it’s just time to make some, as you say, necessary changes again.
Making sure you have time is important. My schedule breakdown isn’t really the blueprint of my life. I belong to social groups, and I volunteer. I have hobbies and projects that I work on.
If you don’t have enough unstructured time, you’ll never have the opportunity to build structure around it.
The largest predictor of divorce is a commute longer than 45 minutes.
Stay up longer. Wake up tired. Do your job really half-assed all day. Let your employer have the worse you.
Did this while younger, it can work for some time but don’t underestimate the consequences to your health from not getting enough sleep.
How much younger are we talkin? Asking cause I’m getting older and wanna know when that’s gonna tell life to kick me in the nuts
About late 30s it kicked in for me
Here’s the trick: just sleep less! You’ll get more time to
play gamesdo chores,stare at the ceiling in existential dreadfind yourself, andslowly lose your sanity as sleep deprivation begins to bring your worst nightmares to lifesleep deeper in the precious hours.At first it looked like Photoshop, and I know it is, but I just realised… it’s that dude from that double suicide photo, isn’t it? Russian dude and his girlfriend?
What the fuck man. It’s Ryan Gosling.
Oh, so it is. That’s reassuring. The photo is from the ancient times of the net. Very peaceful, the guy like he’s sleeping except it’s in the snow so you know something is amiss. That pic with its weird vibe reminded me of it.
Also… have you actually been to 4chan, my friend? Where do you think I was exposed to a suicide pic (as SFW as it was) without warning…?
No, it gets much worse.
He only has two hours after work before he has to go to sleep? That’s like a 70 hour work week!
At my last job I had barelly 30 mins if lucky, used to work for almost 80 hours a week and at tikes worked up to 12 days straight with no days off.
All for a barelly 800 euro pay.
Oh, man, that’s rough. How is such a thing even legal?
Live in a shithole and everything is legal
He should sell his instant work-teleportation device for money instead of working
I mean you still have to get home first, then probably cook and eat something, shower, etc.
All of that takes time as wellI have about 3h of gaming after work during the week. So the meme is pretty accurate about this part. But I also have free weekends, enough vacation time and a job that doesn’t drain much energy. So I’m fine currently.
Can confirm. I am currently in the meme.
Do his jeans have little jean booties attached to them?
Jooties!
