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Reminder for everyone that feels like this; you can at least try to change things for yourself. You can try to get a different job, you can try finding a new place to live, you can try a new hobby, try something at least (maybe not drugs though, that's a start for a rough life). Maybe you don't succeed now, but by not trying you will definitely be stuck where you are.
Make some plans, dream about stuff, don't just lie down and let the orphan crushing machine grind you to pieces. Unless you want to, that is
This kind of advice is incredibly infantilizing. Do you think people aren't trying? Have you considered that people don't have the opportunity to make those changes due to the material circumstances they are being forced into due to systemic forces beyond their immediate control?
Blaming the individual for being crushed under the weight of systemic violence is such a reductive position to argue from.
The reality is that even if you are stuck and there's nothing you can do, the only thing keeping you alive might just be the belief that things can still change. To survive in this shitty world one sometimes needs to hear they can infact at least try to affect the world around them, or what else? That there's no hope and it's better to just suffer? I'm not saying anyone is at fault for not having the strenght to fight it, or responsible for their troubles because they can't solve them - maybe they can't, like I personally can't. Giving up just changes nothing at all
Depending on your boss, telling your boss could be a good idea. That advice is only good if you trust and like your boss. Otherwise it's the quickest way to the unemployment line.
I'm still haunted by the coincidence that I was fired days after finally admitting to my mentor that I was feeling burned out for months.
I say "coincidence" because other stuff was happening at the same time and my mentor wasn't in the same office as me or my supervisor. But I remember, at the end of one week, he told me to reach out to my supervisor and talk to them about maybe getting some extra time off to reset, and, the start of the next week, I got called into the office and let go.
One nice thing about my job is my boss gets it. He can't do anything about it and is in basically the same boat but he understands how I'm overloaded and going to miss deadlines because I don't have enough bandwidth to do everything that we're asked for. As long as I keep him updated on the status of things and prioritize them properly we're good.
That's because capitalism is bullshit thats been shoved down our throats our entire lives. And we bought it for a long time. We are only just beginning to realize how fucked capitalism has made our systems.
To be fair, some figured this out ages ago. But it's been more and more obvious lately, so more and more people are catching on.
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My ex asked me why I never take a vacation and I had to explain to her that the more vacations I take the more likely I am to quit my job and just run into the woods and never come back.
because when you're at work you're just a cog in the machine. it's because capitalism is shit also humans didn't evolve to wake up so early to go to work either
Am I the only one who likes his job? I was working for 10+ years in media creation without a proper education in that field. With 37 I changed everything and did an 3 year apprenticeship. 3 days working and 2 days school (with others around half my age). And now I work as a Web developer in the same small company (9 people) and couldn't be happier. We do only WebDev and no design or marketing. Ok, maybe a tiny amount of design and marketing. Many of our clients like that we are more technical than the regular webdesign agency. I have at least 30 days vacation, nice office in the middle of the city and a rather medium pay but if there is no emergency or time critical project, I can go to my boss and say: "I'm bored. I take the afternoon off." I won't get rich working there, but the fact that I look forward for my work and know work drama only by stories of others, is worth it for me. And that it's just 10min by foot from apartment to office is nice too. I'm so grateful that I am so lucky to find the right job and company.
I've been both. I hated every job I was forced to get in my 20s and 30s, but now that I'm a little more experienced I've finally got one of those rare interesting jobs.
I can't help but imagine how much more productive our economy would be if everyone had this luxury of the job they actually want. I was spending a ton of time/effort on looking busy because I hated working. Now the day just flies by and I have to manage my time carefully.
When you take a step back and just look at the whole thing, it's staggering how much time and effort we just fucking waste. We can start building a paradise for humans tomorrow, even while dealing with climate change. We're not just on the brink of collapse - we're on the brink of utopia. Humanity is ready for a change.
Yes. I'm equally happy with my life work balance but I also understand this is the exception and not the rule so am always willing to lend an ear to anyone that wants to complain about their situation.
Same with any struggles one might have, socioeconomic conditions are not something any fellow worker controls.
I do draw the line at self inflected drama from anyone stuck in denial. Those people need to finish their spiral first.
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I love my job. Its challenging, and at time stressful, but I love it.
I believe in the company I work for and the products we make.
It's a large company, and yet all the employees are just wonderful people, my team and department in particular.
It took me a lot of hard work and many years to reach this point, but it was worth it.
Don't have any degrees, but I have "or equivalent experience" across multiple disciplines which add up to a pretty unique position I basically designed for myself.
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I think it's natural to want to want to work and be active. It is a behavior that has been reinforced by evolution since we were hunter/gatherers. But, there are certain tasks that have definitely frustrated me.
It's natural in a survival or creative context where we use our own agency to decide what to work on.
It's unnatural when we have no agency on the daily and our reward has been abstracted to numbers in a bank account.
Context is irrelevant in my opinion, in the same way that hunger and survival are irrelevant to a dog expressing its prey drive on a plush toy. I also believe we have more agency now than ever; we live in a time when food is abundant, and taking a day or two off might leave you with a smaller paycheck rather than at risk of starving to death. When a job needed to be done thousands of years ago, it was often imperative to the survival of yourself or your community, and not necessarily a matter of choice. Those communities likely also had harsh means of enforcing labor contribution of the able-bodied, consequences exceeding the typical outcome of homelessness that we're familiar with today, which contributed to this evolution. Those who found work itself to be rewarding were much more likely to survive and reproduce, as opposed to those who only found reward in the outcome of work (food, now money).
The good news is that, with the rise of robotics and AI. We will all have to work in politics.
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Last time I was on holiday to the extent that I could unwind, de-stress, hear myself think I concluded that I did not want to go back. I contacted a former coworker just to get some feelers out there about how the industry was doing. Before my holiday was over I had a signed job offer, and I resigned as soon as I got back to the stressful job.
Lesson learned: Give your employees perpetual emergency brain with no time to step back and reflect. Otherwise they could start to evaluate their situation and whether they really need to stay.
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TBH this seems like a great motivation to make changes in your life. Somebody who is in a position to take vacations probably has that option more than the people at the absolute bottom layer of the capitalism heap.
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