28 years old and the 40hr workweek is killing me

[Anonymous No.57150226]

I can't do this. My relationships suffer because I no longer have the time or energy to make plans, my living space is an uncomfortable mess because I can only clean while feeling burnt out once every couple of weeks, I haven't been doing sports for about 3 months because I have to get up so early every day that I'm exhausted by the time my ten-hour (one hour break, nine hours work, still there for 10 hrs in total) is over that all I can manage to do is lie on the couch or sleep.

I can't work 40 hours without turning into a grumpy, sad, exhausted mess. I can't do it. My employer offered me a 35 hour week instead, but ideally I would work a maximum of 30 hours, rather 25. I feel like I'm not weird for this - A lot of people my age experience something like this.

[Anonymous No.57150285]

Same age, same problems, exact same mindset unironically. Tired all the time, personal life suffering, no clue what the solution is. Fuck wagecucking

[Anonymous No.57150317]

>>57150226
I felt the same way, now I work 28 hours (70%) all in WFH. I work out during work hours, prepare healthy meals and so on.
life is bearable this way

[Anonymous No.57150320]

>>57150226
I worked 60 hours a week at a grocery store for 10 years, excruciating, back breaking work, and I'm only 5 years older than you. 3 nights of sports a week too.
It is a mindset.

[Anonymous No.57150334]

>>57150320
>It is a mindset.
the mindset of a cuck

[Anonymous No.57150373]

>>57150317
What industry are you in? I would take a 70% pay cut from $200k if I could "work" from home below full time. I want something to cover my daily expenses while my investments continue to mature.

[Anonymous No.57150386]

>>57150226
same brother. atleast my work place has blended working so maybe once I get past probation i'll only have 3 days of misery a week

[Anonymous No.57150389]

>>57150334
You are likely out of shape and dont do cardio. Do cardio twice per week, 50% more energy for wagecucking.

[Anonymous No.57150391]

>>57150320
This, once you mindbreak yourself into being a slave it gets easier. The key is to surrender to the endless nightmare, abandoning ambitions and hope. Drink to cope, work as little as possible while pretending to work as much as possible. Sounds bad but everyone does that, it's normal. It's not good but it's normal
Alternatively quit

[Anonymous No.57150407]

>>57150226
>I can't work 40 hours without turning into a grumpy, sad, exhausted mess.

Why do you think old people tend to be grumpy, sad and exhausted?

[Anonymous No.57150433]

The only thing that could really made most men endure it is love for their children. If you don’t have children it really doesn’t make sense to be a wagie. You could easily just be an Uber driver, and donate blood, or start a business that’s all profit with low start up costs like painting or building fences or something. The reliability of a steady paycheck in exchange for pseudo slavery is only a reasonable bargain if you have kids that depend on you imo

[Anonymous No.57150447]

>>57150334
Billions of people work 40 or more hours a week, only weak snowflakes can't.

[Anonymous No.57150488]

>>57150226
>Wah wah, I can’t clean my room because I don’t feel good.
Fucking zoomers, just doing it. Only women and faggots let their feelings dictate their actions

[Anonymous No.57150569]

Im 27 and working 50h most weeks in a high stress job, it helps that i still live with my parents and that the house maids take care of everything. If i lived alone it would be hell, im moving out to my own place in 2 years, im so releived my gf cleans and cooks. Fuck living like a slave i dont ming long hours for good pay but i want to be pampered in everything else.

[Anonymous No.57150590]

>>57150226
i feel you brother.. i try to cope in different ways but ultimately i just wasnt built to live like this. it's why i'm trying to make it

[Anonymous No.57150617]

>>57150373
tradfi, I built some shit for the company and management is afraid of what might happen if I leave (everyone left after covid) so I blackmailed them into allowing WFH

[Anonymous No.57150655]

>>57150447
>is such a stressed out miserable piece of shit that he has given himself morbid obesity
>acts like this is normal and he is a healthy, strong man
kys

[Anonymous No.57150664]

>>57150226
how the fuck can a 40 hour workweek actually exhaust people? I work buyside at least 60hrs a week and still find time to exercise 4 days a week and spend time with loved ones at 33. Get your test levels checked, faggot.

[Anonymous No.57150667]

this is my existence as well

[Anonymous No.57150684]

>>57150664
congrats you're a perfect wageslave who doesn't have clinical depression, thanks for your service, cuck

[Anonymous No.57150699]

I work 50+ hours a week but my job is WFH and if there isn’t a day a week I can fuck around I’ll kms. Also I require an hour of gym time during the day when it’s empty. I will not take any job the other way

[Anonymous No.57150718]

>>57150684
and yet I achieve more in my limited free time than you do in your plentiful free time, so who is really the cuck? We all have 24 hours, you just waste a lot more of yours. Sad!

[Anonymous No.57150724]

I left my job of 6 years back in early '22 and my savings are nearly drained out completely (still got over $50k in crypto so that's ok I suppose) but to this day I have zero regrets over my decision. Sold my burdensome mortgaged house and moved back in with my parents, and been there since. I've seen a shitload of layoffs in the tech sector so I was likely gonna get canned at some point anyways.

Shit economy, low pay, cost of living absolutely exploding, yeah. It really makes you think that it's much more worth it gambling on shitcoins instead - yeah you'll lose your ass most of the time, but you only need to get lucky a couple of times to land back on your feet again.

[Anonymous No.57150744]

>>57150226
>>57150285
>>57150317
Young people need to band together - communicate, organize, and disrupt the comfort of the people who are okay with the way things are (like >>57150320). That's the only way things will change. The Boomers who run things aren't smarter; and, half the time, they're not even more experienced, having stewed in their own mediocrity for decades. What they are is much, much better-connected. They can get to the people who can change things and pressure them to take action. You'll have noticed what happened when young people started questioning the narrative coming out of Palestine. This is why they hated Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Anonymous. Connected-but-decentralized youth movements. They usually try to neutralize the best of you by giving you plum spots at the Establishment Table, and it sorta worked for Millennials. But Boomers, in their hubris, decided that Zoomers get nothing. So it's up to you to show them the error of their ways, even if it costs you the carrot (which is locked behind a lifetime of indentured servitude to your student loan servicer, or taking 5 years of abuse by seniors in your trade, or whatever, anyway).

[Anonymous No.57150747]

>>57150226
>> he discovered its a work work wagie life.
i hope you atleast realized fiat money is a scam to keep you doing this for 50 years right? you DID get buttcoinerinos right

[Anonymous No.57150771]

>>57150724
Just for future reference, should have let them lay you off. You either get severance or unemployment that way.

Also, for future reference: document every stupid abuse they lay on you, as you go. When they finally kick you out, you can go to a lawyer or the DoL and you'll get a fat settlement (my company was shorting me on overtime, for example).

[Anonymous No.57150776]

>>57150226
>>57150285
I think the problem is that you guys are just weaklings with a female mindset
>inb4 wageslave shilling for Mr Shekelberg
fuck off with that shit, that’s another discussion entirely. Doesn’t change the fact that these two are behaving like women

[Anonymous No.57150835]

Bot thread.

Jewish hands likely type this out. And you stupid niggers are feeding it. It's nose grows further.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/18w2l01/28_years_old_and_the_40hr_workweek_is_killing_me/

[Anonymous No.57150838]

>>57150226

>>>/r9k/

Faggot.

[Anonymous No.57150925]

Yep faggot thread confirmed... My life sucks to zoomers but ICP will set me free.. Gonna need some of ya to be a wage that's just how it goes.

[Anonymous No.57150944]

>>57150226
Im the same age work in the trades out in the mines and heavy industrial plants. We push 60 hour work weeks. I am starting to get sore, crouching down and getting back up off the ground is becoming harder and harder. But as the other anons have said it's mostly a mentality. Works shit, we are inherently hard-wired to want to do as little work as possible. It's also incredibly rewarding though, the only thing that will gives you true purpose in life. You just gotta do it. And by work I don't just mean employment, work is also keeping your space clean, cooking food, exercising

[Anonymous No.57150948]

>>57150718
>and yet I achieve more in my limited free time than you do in your plentiful free time
I lift 4-5x per week and run sprints 3x per week even though it's winter and it gets dark at 4pm here. The only reason you're able to brag about wage cucking so long is you've got kids to feed. So shut the fuck up about how the system if fair and you manage to squeeze your family into your busy work life.

[Anonymous No.57151050]

>>57150948
the system is fair, you're just mad you can't hang

[Anonymous No.57151103]

>>57151050
I worked 70+ hours per week for two years in the rain sleet and slow to buy crypto with during 2020. Fag boy. Enjoy going back to work tomorrow :)

[Anonymous No.57151168]

>>57151103
did you have to walk uphill both ways to do it?

[Anonymous No.57151225]

>>57151168
I had to locate underground utilities, wherever underground utilities are located. And yeah, they go uphill. Again, have a nice day at work tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.57151450]

>>57150835
You're right, since no one ever replies to my pro-revolutionary posts in threads like this. It's sentiment-harvesting and demoralization.

[Anonymous No.57151473]

>>57150226
The worst part the wear and tear shows on your face. its incredible how much ive aged since working 60 hour weeks the past few years. All that cortisol bloates and tires your face. no amount of cardio or dieting will fix it. the lifestyle you live will reflect on your face

[Anonymous No.57151504]

>>57150226
Ok, get a part time job. 25hrs is called a part time job, what’s the problem?

[Anonymous No.57151509]

>>57151225
you too!

[Anonymous No.57152517]

>>57150226
40 hours isn't shit dude. I work in public accounting and I have to do 55+ hours a weeks for the next four months. I'd actually kill for a 40 hour a week job.

[Anonymous No.57152560]

>>57150226
Unless you have a long commute (in which case you should move) this just sounds like a skill issue. How many hours per week do you spend on 4chan or other internet bullshit?

[Anonymous No.57152562]

>>57150226
Tradie here, I want to kill myself everyday doing this shit job.
I'm jealous of all you who are able to work from home.

[Anonymous No.57152570]

>>57150226
What an embarrassing fucking post. Waah boo hoo I have to work to make money. I can't relax all day and play video games. You sound like a child. Welcome to the real world.

[Anonymous No.57153034]

>>57152517
Same here man. These dudes don’t get it

At least I’m remote now but as a staff last two years I was doing 50-60 a week and living alone, literally no free time only made 60k too. Went back in with my dad trying to make it with BTC

[Anonymous No.57153048]

>>57150226
I do 40 hours a week but I can do it whenever I want 24/7. I will do 10 hours some days. 4 hours some others days. Oh ya and I split up when I can do it throughout the day no set in stone 8 hour workday timeline. It is wfh

[Anonymous No.57153088]

I’ve worked 363 days in a calendar year before when I was 24/25 working on a pig farm. You’ll get through this

[Anonymous No.57153981]

>>57150226
Yeah, im downshifting too. No kids, no wife, no mortgage. Got a very favorable rent due to nepotism, I think I might just go for an easy, uncomplicated life instead of all of that normie bullshit. Work 25 hours, make plenty to cover expenses and some savings, already have a decent pension locked in etfs and 100k in savings. Never been happier, more relaxed. Feel in total control, can say fuck it to anyone or anything at any moment. Feels good. Only worry is health, which I have time and energy to take care of, no stress is very good in that regard too.

Fuck obligations, it aint worth the squeeze anymore.

[Anonymous No.57154173]

>>57150391
no one should ever listen to you, we would be better off hearing a pig squeal and oink

[Anonymous No.57154202]

>>57150226
That's because unlike previous generations we went from cosied up insulated housing with amenities they had never seen and instant access to the world's best and brightest living up their lives to a cold reality upon entering adulthood. We were sold a dream unlike any other generation and now we're being cursed with reality.

That and the "40 hour work week" is a literal meme crafted by companies to exploit you to the utmost extent, I say we're the first generation to experience the idealism rugpull but we're not in actuality. If you were to show a medieval peasant the working hours and purchasing power of the modern man they would likely think you were living in hell.

[Anonymous No.57154212]

>apply for a new job
>"Wow we're impressed with your resume! Just pay the 1500 dollar membership fee and you can work from home and find your own clients and we'll just take a small portion off the top"
This economy is fucked my man don't quit your job, all that's out there right now are scams.

[Anonymous No.57154441]

>>57150226
>1 post by this id
I guess you will be reading this tomorrow or at work.

I felt similar to you, I first worked 40 hours, but knew I couldn't remain sane. My employers were decent, you could even talk to them without fear, my co workers were good as well there. Its just that each day I could feel the dread growing, as though I was nearing death.
6 months in I spoke with them about my intend to leave, but I would be willing to help train my replacement and stayed another month to do so. I also asked to reduce to a 30 hour week, but that was not feasible for them.I am very capable and set up some more efficient workflows and wrote documentation that ended up being in use years after i left.

After that I found a Job doing 30 hours a week. 4 day workweek. tried to get friday off, but it ended up being a Wednesday. I even came an hour later each day by rigging the timekeeping software. That was much better, as you may imagine. However I still felt dread creeping in. I left this one as well after 7 months. If you go this route be a bit flexible and offer that you are willing to do overtime and come in on your free day if an urgent matter requires it. Be just as firm saying though, that you want the time off later. co workers may look at you with jealousy as you leave earlier or are not present on some days, but its only a few.
This employer was pretty decent as well, i showed management and employees some helpful tools and prepared excel and erp templates.

Every time I left, I didn't have another job lined up, but with enough perseverance you can find one. So keep saving and never remain holed up in a job you don't like just because you don't have another one yet. Better to use all your time to find a good employer.
Be skilled, be smart and apply your unique set of knowledge to nail your interview. If you can talk well and appear likeable, that will be much more valuable than your willingness to work "full" time.
Hope this helps as you read this while waging.

[Anonymous No.57155350]

>>57154173
he is right

[Anonymous No.57155386]

>>57152570
this is literally a r3ddit post today on /r/antiwork. go look for yourselves. yeah I browse r3ddit when I get drunk sometimes. you all took the b8. good post

[Anonymous No.57155397]

>>57155386
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/XSVRoV9Riw

[Anonymous No.57155444]

>>57155386
>>57155397
lmao, I do feel like OP redditor though

[Anonymous No.57155554]

>>57150226
40hr+ work weeks are satanic

[Anonymous No.57155693]

>>57150948
You don't hate entitled gym rats like this enough. These incessant hamster wheel runners have zero self awareness that the number one reason they don't enjoy is because they're boring and don't actually do anything fun. I guarantee I enjoy my exercise sports more than you enjoy dragging your gay bitter ass into the gym. And I work more than you. Just admit you are gay to your dad soon, that will probably improve your life immediately.

[Anonymous No.57155700]

>>57150744
agreed

[Anonymous No.57155719]

>>57155350
for you

[Anonymous No.57155742]

>>57155719

[Anonymous No.57155749]

>>57155444
>What happened when the work force doubled
Are lefties truly incapable of contemplating supply and demand?

[Anonymous No.57155755]

>>57150226
Cry more dickface. It will get worse, you will have less energy, more problems, fewer friends, dead or dementing parents and nothing will be quite as much fun as it was.

[Anonymous No.57155775]

>29
>haven’t worked in three months now
>day/swing trading to try make a few hundred to live work free
>no gf/family/friends

If I don’t make it trading I just might end it all. This life was not supposed to be made of this much suffering with so little reward.

[Anonymous No.57155778]

>>57150226
WFH and work part time with high base salary. I'm currently working mondays and taking care of my son the rest of the weekdays. Going to start working 24 hour weeks in the fall and having a four day weekend (fri-mon)

[Anonymous No.57155926]

>>57150226
>>57150285
>>57150320
>>57150407
>>57150724
>>57152517
>>57155778
You guys ever feel like you died a long time ago and the life you're living now is some sort of ethereal hell you've been trusted into where every day is a fucked up groundhog day? I don't even feel like myself anymore.

[Anonymous No.57156746]

>>57155926
Yes. Days are getting shorter and shorter. Even going on a hike gives me less vibrant and real emotions than playing a video game did when I was in my late teens. Every activity not related to the job still becomes only a background activity for the job foreground. You can't escape the fact that your entire existence is tied to being a wagecuck. I'm WFH and I do like 3-4 hours of real work per day, far better than being in the office but it's like choosing between stepping into bull shit and horse shit.

[Anonymous No.57156798]

>>57156746
>Yes. Days are getting shorter and shorter.
that's because it's winter

[Anonymous No.57156800]

Absolutely pathetic, 40 hours is nothing. My wife and I both work 50+ hours a week on irregular schedules, we still have a nice well kept house, go on fun dates, fuck a lot, work out, go on trips with friends, and sleep very well. You are just a faggot.

[Anonymous No.57156821]

>>57150334
Based.
>>57150447
Good boy :)

[Anonymous No.57156822]

>>57156800
>My wife and I both work 50+ hours a week on irregular schedules,
Imagine bragging about being a good goy wage cuck LMAO. Couldn't be me

[Anonymous No.57156831]

>>57156822
We make a combined $240k a year, going to retire at 40

[Anonymous No.57156845]

>>57150334
>nooo in order to be enlightened and based you need to be more tired and do nothing at all after work and complain about having to work at all

[Anonymous No.57156849]

>>57156831
good goy, now get back in the cage before you boss catches you shitposting

[Anonymous No.57156859]

>>57156849
I work from home

[Anonymous No.57156867]

>>57156859
>claiming to do 50+ hours of actual work per week at a WFH job
obvious LARP

[Anonymous No.57156904]

>>57150226
Society can't function without at least half of men working several dozens of hours a week. Machines are progressively making it easier but it's still a vital condition. NEETS and other parasites like multi-millionaires and richer folks live off the leverage of millions of people working for them. Because that's what they do : they work and produce something while parasites sit back and relax. They watch the hive do the work for them. That would never happen in a tribe of like 50 people. That only works because millions are unaware they are actual slaves. Or they are aware but can't rebel.
I'm not saying being a parasite is a bad thing, I would say it's the rather the smartest thing you can do. And the Internet and crypto has been the easiest way to "cheat out" of the slave zone.

[Anonymous No.57156940]

>>57150226
It's called adult life of poor person, deal with it

[Anonymous No.57157062]

>>57150226
why do you hate capitalism and america?

[Anonymous No.57157385]

>>57156904
>crypto has been the easiest way to "cheat out" of the slave zone.
Crypto do far has been nothing but gambling for the younger generations. Millions throw their peanuts in and a few thousand make a bunch of money at the expense of the other 99,9%.

[Anonymous No.57157477]

>>57150925
Based

[Anonymous No.57157497]

>>57157385
It’s natural selection. Those who are supposed to make it do

[Anonymous No.57157519]

>>57150226
LOWER.YOUR.VOICE

[Anonymous No.57157552]

>>57157385
>Millions throw their peanuts in and a few thousand make a bunch of money at the expense of the other 99,9%
Name one system where every participant reliably wins. It's always some sort of gambling where skill, intelligence, good genes etc only tilt the odds in your favor rather than guarantee any kind of success.

[Anonymous No.57157647]

>>57157552
The work system

[Anonymous No.57157656]

>>57157647
Not everyone can reliable “win” with that you always need a big slave class

[Anonymous No.57157680]

>>57150320
>Stacking shelves at the supermarket is "backbreaking work"

lol no

[Anonymous No.57157688]

>>57157647
You would have to add enough disclaimers that ultimately the rule would have vastly, vastly more exceptions than situations where it applies. Work, sure, but don't be in the third world, don't be in east or southeast europe, don't have children or family members you need to support, don't work for minimum wage etc etc.
Now mind you I'm not opposed to low quality and unlucky individuals being filtered out by whatever sort of system and I do recognize that social mobility in the modern world (in first world countries outside of the crab bucket underclass) is at an all time high but to pretend there's an everyone wins situation would just be wrong

[Anonymous No.57159200]

>>57155926
maybe but also no. things are a lot better now for me than when i was a poor student, but i have more responsibility and cant just fuck off to somewhere if i feel like it. i think its just a consequence of getting older and having more responsibility in general. though having long vacations and not working full time helps to alleviate the depressive tendencies of waging

[Anonymous No.57159380]

imagine how much better the planet would be if the weak like OP would just die? we spend so much resources or these dead weights, and we aint doing them any favors either

[Anonymous No.57159414]

YWDS

you will wage for Jews and you’ll be happy. You will work 40+ hour weeks just like the boomers and greatest generation all did. Lazy kids will get off their asses and uphold our glorious capitalist system and you will pay for the boomers retirement like a good little slave. You don’t have the balls to challenge boomer authority and your brains are too fried from screen time. Get off your ass and get to work wagie, my pension isn’t gonna pay me to retire without your lazy asses working.

[Anonymous No.57159438]

>>57155926
this is me

[Anonymous No.57159505]

>>57150655
>makes up some bullshit about obesity
>acts like he’s a man despite needing time for his feelings
You’re too lazy and stupid to kys. Just your pussyless broke existence.

[Anonymous No.57159878]

it doesn't have to be this way

[Anonymous No.57159916]

>>57150285
>>57150226
Nowadays, you have tons of resources to automate passive income. If you really hate your situation, but you can't figure out how to break out of the wageslavery, then you're retarded and you deserve being a slave. You're slave material.

[Anonymous No.57160039]

>>57150389
>bro you'll be less tired if you expend MORE energy
This is a stupid meme that literally makes no physical sense.

[Anonymous No.57160083]

sorry friend. i recommend you find work that allows you to work part time.

[Anonymous No.57160088]

>>57156746
> Even going on a hike gives me less vibrant and real emotions than playing a video game did when I was in my late teens

That's called depression anon. You don't get nearly the dopamine hits like you used to. I've been there before too.

[Anonymous No.57160620]

>>57150226
>relationships suffer
It's because for our parents work was social hour. They met friends and possibly even each other at their jobs.
Meanwhile if a youngin has a good job he probably is surrounded by boomers and pajeets that he can't relate to at all. Even then you can't actually let loose because someone will stab you in the back. And even aside from all that employers are more jewish than ever about extracting as much perceived work (perceived because it might even be bullshit busy work) from you as possible.

I think commuting is what really makes people miserable bastards. There is so much anger now whenever I'm sharing the road with wagies and I can't even be mad or fault them for it.

Basically the world is unraveling before our eyes and boomers are willfully blind to it as long as they can go out to eat and take cruise vacations.

[Anonymous No.57160715]

>>57159414
>capitalist system
Lmao you communists are in a religious cult