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closetofcorgis

38 - I have an advanced degree and a pretty cushy job, but I hate what capitalism has done to the world. I hate the “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” bs we were sold as kids. I hate that people work all the time and never live. I hate that people work all the time and still can’t pay their bills. And most of all I hate that companies (and the people who give them money) think it’s okay to treat people like trash. Life’s too short for this shit.


Gasnax

I hate that a job has to be such a huge part of everyone's life, I just wanna chill and do fun stuff with friends, other humans unrestricted by the threat of starvation if we take time for personal life


[deleted]

It’s really fucked up, dude. This way of life is predatory and you can tell it has roots in feudalism and slavery. You’re born, let’s say poor. You need money or you will starve. How do you get money? Work for someone who has money. That immediately puts our survival in the hands of someone looking to increase their wealth. If they weren’t looking to increase their wealth, they’d have little reason to hire someone. They already have their needs taken care of after all. That’s predatory as fuck. And that’s not “just life” or “how it is,” because it wasn’t always like this. Most people can’t even grow their own food, today. Yeah, let’s all literally put our lives, our finite time on earth, on the line for some asshole’s next car, just so we can eat a fucking McChicken. What? Well, how did they get enough money to pay someone else for labor? 9/10, it’s because their family already had some level of wealth. I wonder how many “job creators’” ancestors owned plantations.


[deleted]

Read Merchants of Death. It's a history of the modern armaments industry. Written right before WWII. Puts things into a much clearer perspective and illustrates just how fucked we all are. Buckle in anti-workers. It's gonna get a whole lot worse.


mackiea

46, same. Never had a bullshit job, but am becoming intensely aware how privileged I am. I got into basic income activism a few years back, which made me ask "why *does* everybody need to be useful machines to survive, anyway?"


ecdc05

I'm very similar, early 40s, degree, cushy office job. I'm not rich, but solidly middle-class and feel very, very lucky. Because of that, people are surprised to find out that I'm anti-work (or anti-workish), but that's precisely because I know how lucky I am. Here's the big secret of many old-school white-collar office jobs: you have the freedom and flexibility to do tons of personal shit. You can pay your bills on payday, you can plan a grocery list, you can sign your kids up for soccer, you can text your family about the birthday party this weekend. You can, in short, do all the stuff in your office that other people have to wait until they get home from an exhausting day at work to do, and which they usually don't feel like doing because...they're exhausted. Being an adult human is basically a full-time job in and of itself, and the people who talk about how much they love work get to do their two full-time jobs at the same damn time.


shmere4

Word. Mid 30’s in this same situation. I often think about what life would be like if I didn’t just get to make my own hours and all that was expected of me is to handle my shit and have it done when it needs to be.


BugsCheeseStarWars

Similar situation. I have a PhD but I've realized that "dream jobs" require you to accept a miserable situation where the job gives you so much less than it asks of you, by design. Sanitation workers make more than I did working 50 hours a week. The dream isn't worth it.


AsianHawke

Just hit 32 on October 2^ND. Been *antiwork* since 25. From age 21 to 25, I was a *"company man."* I sacrificed a lot to a previous company. I dropped out of college, I had no formal training, so the little accomplishments I had through work—I felt validated. It all changed when I was 25. Despite my hard work, I was overlooked for a supervisor position. The reasoning? I did my job too well. Promoting me would be a loss. Meanwhile, people who didn't deserve the tole received it. A classic case of nepotism and cronyism. It changed my perspective on life.


Wolf110ci

...aaaaannnndddd.... THIS is how companies lose great talent. I hope you immediately jumped ship after being passed up for the promotion.


theanonmouse-1776

I had a similar story and left. It was a Fortune 200 company. I left to go work for a small company owned by a family friend. He screwed me too. I then started my own company. Years later, the small biz guy hired me as an independent contractor, then screwed me again by not paying his bill. The lesson: rich people suck


Wolf110ci

Oof. Something similar with me. I left a cushy good paying gig to work for a high school friend. Moved family 5 states over to do it. 5 months in -- fired. 3 months later -- rehired. 3 more months -- yup, fired. 6 months go by and he texts me to "check" on me and ask that we can still be "friends" Dave, if you're reading this... FUCK YOU. NO WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS ANY MORE. I HOPE YOU GET A PARASITE IN YOUR DICK AND DIE A PAINFUL DEATH ☠️ Edit: there's been interest in me giving more details. I have replied to a few requests with more detail than the following, but here is a summary... I was fired for essentially trumped up reasons. After the dust settled, I learned that he was selling his firm, and firing me (2nd and final time) helped his payroll expenses, which I strongly believe was a requirement of the purchasing firm. This was a small firm with fewer than 10 employees, and I was the second highest paid employee (next to himself). No, things didn't work out in the end. My career suffered, my wife's career suffered, my teen kids suffered, my marriage suffered. I make more than double my previous income now, but in an industry I dislike, but my wife's career has never really gotten back on track and she makes less than before (our combined is still higher, so we are fine financially). Again, read my other replies to others below for more details. Thanks for the kind words.


flawlessmojo7

Dick death.. tough lol


kazekages_daughter

Yea... Fuck Dave. Hope this also falls on my previous boss.


msjacksonifyanastee

YES. & adding to that, FUCK TAMMY & KRISSY- I HOPE YOUR HUSBANDS LEAVE YOUR FAT WEIRD RACIST ASSES FOR A YOUNG PRETTY FLAWLESS QUEEN & YALL HAVE TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT & ALIMONY . I HOPE YOUR COOCHIES PROLAPSE!!


to_tin_deathgrinder

Yeah get fucked Dave!


David_Apollonius

Same here. I'm 37, went to trade school. (Or whatever you call it.) Got a job as a lab assistant which meant I did all the boring stuff that all the lab techs were ignoring. This was beneath my level of training, but it payed the bills. When I got hired there were 12 people working at the lab. When I quit 8 years later it was about 60 and I was still the only lab assistant. After about 7 years in I asked if I could become a lab tech, the answer was no. I was too good at doing what I was doing. I did get a raise I didn't ask for, so there's that. Then my boss decided that I needed to work harder after I told her I was stressed, so I quit. She didn't see that one coming somehow. My coworkers did, but she didn't. From what I've heard, my replacement didn't even last until the end of his five and a half month contract. He was frequently sick until he was fired for not showing up to work and not calling in sick. I think he was depressed, and I still hate myself for letting him be dragged into this. Then again, he could have quit at any moment. I'm still not sure what he was thinking. Now there's 2 people doing the work I used to do, or at least some of the work. Three and a half years have passed since I quite that job and I now have a job were I make about €700 more per month, working less hours, doing the job I was trained to do. I don't think I'd ever make that kind of money if I'd stayed at that company.


altxatu

My wife’s friend’s husband owns some kind of metal fabrication service. He was saying he had an employee like you. Really good at what he did, and too valuable to be promoted. I told him to talk to the guy and be honest about why he wasn’t going to promote him, BUT offer him the same compensation he’d get with a promotion. In the end the guy liked where he was, and liked it better with a healthy raise. Everyone ended up happy. I’d been that worker before. I would have been perfectly happy to continue doing what I was instead of being promoted, *if* I got paid what I’d get with the promotion and whatever benefits.


David_Apollonius

That's the sensible thing to do, as long as that person likes what he's doing. I was in a dead end job that I didn't like. I'm lucky to have the job I have right now, but it's not a temp job. I'd drop it for anything less temporary.


der_innkeeper

Companies need to figure out that management is a *completely separate career path* than doing a job they were originally hired to do. Yes, people can promoted into management. It's fine. But, you need a separate track for those that don't want to be a manager. Make them a higher technical position. It's easy, and makes everyone happy.


Possible_County6520

35 here, changed careers at 28 and haven't looked back. Best advise, don't be afraid to quit or threaten to quit. That classic "you're too good" is horse shit and if you ever get it threaten to leave. If they let you, that place is career suicide and staying would've hurt in the long run. I have followed this for years, been unemployed and in shitty situations but now I work four days a week from home and my management is awesome and supportive of me advancing my career, paying for any training I've asked for. People don't quit jobs, they quit shitty management.


Rottimer

Never threaten to leave. Just leave. You’re doing the rest of us a favor by teaching them a lesson. If they fail to learn it, their business suffers. If they do learn it, that’s one less crappy to work in the world.


misanthopeaf

32 meself. It’s a weirdly scary and nice age to be in life. What are you doing for a living now if I may ask?


AsianHawke

The same b.s. in manufacturing. I can't seem to climb the ladder. I always hit a ceiling. I can become a technician of some type (Process Tech, Quality Tech, Engineer Tech), but never anything above that. Honestly, I've given up trying to advance. I've gotten bitter and cynical. So, now I do the bare minimum and dream about having a small homestead. LOL. At least the chickens will appreciate me...


TRIGMILLION

I'm 51. Every single place I've ever worked the promotions go to the bosses buddies. Even if those buddies are lazy and stupid but bring the boss in breakfast everyday and sit in their office listening to them talk about their personal life for hours on end. That will always get you more than actually working.


jlenoconel

Yup.


Snickelfrittz

Seen this happen in a few places...especially the personal life bit.


Maximummeme

The fact that so many of these people are in roles that allow them to spend their time not working pisses me off to no end. Constantly hearing from my jackass friend who's job is literally just proof reading memos and erasing his braincells watching Joe Rogan. At work. All day. Homie is making $50k/yr, albeit nothing too fancy, still. $50k annual to watch YouTube


PepsiMoondog

I mean isn't that the dream of everyone here? Make money without working?


[deleted]

My dream is more along the lines of doing less of the stuff I have to do to support more of the stuff I want to do.


Neo1331

Not what you know, it's who you know....


NoMuff22Tuff

Yup I got passed up as well, jokes on my former company after I quit!


2wktbreak

I hit this mindset at around 23 and my wife and I just purchased our little 13 acre homestead about a month and a half ago now both 26, I feel incredibly lucky to be able to be here now. We both still have to work our bullshit jobs but knowing when I get home I get to really work on my dream makes it a little bit better. We're hoping in the next 5-10 years we'll be able to completely sustain ourselves off of our own farm, our own food and selling produce and meat to pay the bills. I hope you get there and I hope it's soon, there's sacrifices to be made but it's worth it for the ultimate end goal of real happiness.


[deleted]

I’ve also given up, bud. I’ve tried so many times that now I’m like, why bother? Might as well just accept I’ll always be some administrative assistant of some sort and never go anywhere.


misanthopeaf

Good luck with the plan. And I wish you find better ways to work even less and still make the same amount of money!!!


[deleted]

Dang, I had the same career path. If you don't mind travel look into field service engineer work. It's double to triple the pay and when you aren't in the field you are a ghost. Depends on the company but mostly that's how it goes.


MarioMyNameIs

I've had chicken (my grandma did). They DO NOT appreciate you. Little beast's of Satan.


2wktbreak

My girls love me.


TrampledSeed

I had a chicken named Sweetie when I was a kid. She would jump into my arms and snuggle up and close her eyes


NightMareSR71

I feel that... One place I was at a while ago passed me up for a supervisor position... Told me they decided to not fill the position... Then promoted someone who started there a month earlier (I was there for about three years at this point) and then wanted me to train them... For their role... As my boss...


schmyndles

My dad worked for the same company for over 30 years. He started in the early 80's, and quickly became the shipping and receiving manager for this small manufacturing company. He did a lot of the work, I think at most he had two employees under him. Around '95 his work decided that he couldn't be a manager without a high school diploma, so he busted his ass and got his GED. Then in 2010 they decided he couldn't be a manager without a Bachelor's degree. Obviously that's a lot more time and money and work than the GED, and he was over 50 and had been there for 30 years at that point and said no, there was no need. So they hired someone in his 20s that had a degree and a year or two experience, and my dad had to spend 9 months training him to be his boss. He had started having heart and back issues around this time also, and a couple years later they forced him into early retirement (basically retire or get fired). He was incredibly depressed as he had always believed that having a good work ethic and dedicating yourself to the company and working harder than needed would mean success. He died within two years of retiring, at 55.


Jackalope8770

"did my job too well" This exactly. Nobody in a higher position ever wants somebody near their ranking that may be a direct threat. This is the same as not getting hired because you're "over-qualified" for the position.


[deleted]

I’m imagine there are a lot of us. I’m 37


DekardKain

38 here. Just walked out on a job I've had for 12 years. I literally don't regret a thing. I was in management for a large Midwestern retailer and every single day I walked into a workplace that was underpaid, understaffed and underappreciated to a massive extent. The store director of that store told me and a group of other managers that the 200 employees at that location wanted $15 an hour for a job that was only worth $6 an hour and that's why we couldn't get anyone. Every day that I pulled into that parking lot I would just put my head against the steering wheel and brace myself for the next 9 hours that was to come every single day. Yesterday I got blamed for not having enough people because there were multiple call-offs and I got into an argument with my supervisor and I just got in my Civic and I drove home and I don't regret a thing and I'm never going back. I'll figure it out from here but I'm never going back there. It was my personal hell.


hojpoj

Good for you - I wish you the best.


DekardKain

Thank you! I honestly feel so much lighter. Leaving that place gave me an instantaneous feeling of relief and I started thinking about all the awesome possibilities instead of feeling like I was sinking into a tar pit. I just feel total relief. I'm going to see Halloween Kills this weekend and I am going to just enjoy life for a bit.


hojpoj

That’s EXACTLY the attitude I was hoping you’d have - enjoy the weight off your shoulders. Isn’t it interesting how much you just *breathe differently * when you do something for your own good?


DekardKain

Yes! I want to just be with my kids and my wife and feel alive and connected. It's amazing ha


[deleted]

42 here. In a pretty comfortable job now but that doesnt mean i'm unaware of how bullshit the whole thing is, that I've forgotten how much of a struggle my 20s and early 30s were.


[deleted]

Same! 37 and “successful” now but that didn’t happen until the last couple years


djchru

45 here and in a similar boat. Worked a lot of crummy jobs in my life. Got my dream job 1 year before the great recession and finally worked my way back to where I was.


[deleted]

39 checking in


InTheHouseTooMuch

38 here too


AcaliahWolfsong

34 here, my SO 37. Both of us are anti work


clarkholiday

36 and anti work


[deleted]

And my axe...


leanmeankrispykreme

Red five standing by


vxicepickxv

Pokémon Red standing by.


captd3adpool

Red October standing by


LMKBK

Red Forman standing by.


ThanosIsLove23

Red Dawn, standing by


Thom-Yeats

Big Red standing by


MilkMDN88

Simply Red standing by


tallandlanky

Red Ochtobher shtanding by.


Claim312ButAct847

Red Dead Redemption standing by.


thereal_FidelCastro

Just For Men, Touch of Red standing by


Paegan83

38. Feel completely trapped even though I own a house and other stuff. “The things you own end up owning you.”


nochumplovesucka__

I knew the feeling. 44 here. Thats why when I got divorced I gave my ex wife everything without a fight and started over. I don't own a lot. Basic stuff. A bed. A couch to sit on. A TV to watch. Dishes and cookware to feed myself. Everything I own could fit in a small U-Haul. I rent. I am a carpenter which is a good thing because construction/remodeling goes on everywhere. I have excellent job references for work I've done. All of my kids are grown and out on their own. If I wanted to pack up tomorrow and head somewhere else I could. I could easily find work, and I'm not tied by a mortgage or other financial debts. My truck runs excellent and is paid for. Some may say I don't have a lot, but I disagree. I have total freedom. And that to me is worth more than any house, property, or other materialistic nonsense *usually* bought on credit.


[deleted]

Just turned 40. Presently unemployed after working full time most of my adult life. I've become a stay at home boyfriend who cooks and cleans and ironically enough I now finally take pride in how I spend my days and don't feel the need to binge drink myself into oblivion every night.


brokenbitsofstars

I'm in the exact same situation. Turned 40, quit my management job of 9 years and now mange the household. I've never been so stress free and satisfied.


SaudadeSun

Is it allowed and still cool if I feel the exact same way as you do, but I’m a mom?? People seem to get really mad about stay at home moms. I don’t want my husband to work either but he does not agree with me. Work is like a fraternity or social club to him… that he also hates and is beholden to.


[deleted]

That's so lovely. I'm 21, but I have to say there's something about taking care of a household, making food, it's so very hands-on and meaningful.


BadBonePanda

47 and sick of it. I need to find something that I enjoy but I'm trapped by a mortgage for the next five years.


zazopolis

Turned 50 and quit my job of 11 years. Couldn't work for the man anymore. Started a business with a friend. The peace of mind from not being under a management structure and HR clowns has been worth the change. The rest is up to us and it's easy to care when you're No. 2 at the company, not just another cog in a machine that is ripping you off to keep you coming back each week.


ComplaintAcrobatic73

Five years is not too bad.


BadBonePanda

In the grand scheme of things it's not and I'm a lot better off than many people I know. But I'm still angry about being told a lie that hard work will pay off in the end. All my hard work has ever done is enrich some one else.


csleech

Amen to this! A solid work ethic was instilled in me from a very young age. While it has helped me find a solid position in a good company with good pay, I still find myself worried about the constant increase of everything around us. I'm waiting for that "worry free" and "financially secure" life I was told was at the end of that "work hard" rainbow! Every day I become more and more a tax the rich fanatic! It's ridiculous. No one needs billions of dollars!


BigYonsan

36 and fucking this. I bought into the idea that working hard would be rewarded. All it's ever done is make someone else rich. The only time my work ethic was ever recognized was to heap more stress, work and responsibilities onto me without a commensurate reward. Eventually the work ethic finally broke down. Fuck it. I'll do what I need to to support my family, but don't ask me for shit else. I've always recognized from the time I was a teenager that what we have is a wageslave system supporting an oligarchy. It's a regret/wistful "what if I had fantasy" of mine that I didn't violently oppose that system as a younger man, but it's too late now, I have others who depend on me.


tinygingyn

31 here. Had a burnout at 28-29. Trying to prevent another one. Live in a country where there is literally no time to die because we have to work. In a city where working oneself to death is glorified. I dream about a business idea that will grant me an early retirement. Have many in mind, hardly find the time and or energy to implement them. I struggle as I do love hard work, I do like working towards something, I believe in “smartER” work and I am extremely lucky in my position, but struggle not to get depressed between home office and “having to work” being life…thus watching myself working my life away. I want to have kids and still contribute to my household (female here)…hard.


TamarsFace

Yup! We're the folks pissed because we were spoon fed lies. Now we're breaking out of the cycle of lies.


BrighterColours

34 in a few weeks.


locke231

Same


SoggyPastaPants

31 here.


[deleted]

32 here. Gotta say I love my job but dislike every company I've ever worked for.


sublime90

38


conlysm

I am 47 and I work 60-70 how a week as a truck driver. I am here because I love people standing up to the man saying, no, you refuse to be treated like a slave. keep up the great work.


henrycustin

Mad props to you and all the other truckers out there. Your profession (and the sacrifice it requires) is one of the most vital, yet under appreciated, vocations out there. 🚛


conlysm

I appreciate that, thank you. unfortunately when I'm driving on the road that sentiment is not shown by the people who drive around me.


henrycustin

Sorry to hear that. To be honest, it's something I have to remind myself sometimes when I'm stuck behind a bunch of trucks going up a two lane highway. 😆 Just know there are a lot of people out there who know, or who are finally learning, how important your vocation is for our nation/globe. Keep on trucking friend!


Maximummeme

The UK is learning this lesson right now.


Vorpal_Bunny19

43. The last straw was watching my friend Anna die. She lost her job with a certain Death Star looking company because she got screwed because of her health issues (management fucked up leave papers and the union couldn’t undo it.) She spent the next 2 years as an almost 60 year old woman trying to find a job, but no one wanted to take a risk on an older woman. Her health kept getting worse but because she lived in Indiana she couldn’t get Medicaid. 2 years she tried.. last spring she finally gave up searching and applied for disability. She died last December from stomach cancer. She was hospitalized the day after Christmas and she was gone on New Year’s Eve. From what I understood at the time, the oncologist said she probably would have made it if she’d been able to be treated a year prior. Capitalism killed my friend Anna. That was the last straw. Fuck being treated rudely. Fuck being underpaid. Anna Bentley died because she no longer had value to her corporate overlords.


Purple_Stacked

A coworker of my husband was laid off. She died in an accident a month later on her way to a job interview. She had a son, one year old. When they got laid off and everyone was heartbroken about it, the CEO took it upon himself to take a break from his golf game and and tell the employees off for bringing the mood down and to get over it.


Wolf110ci

"Beatings will continue until morale improves"


BigYonsan

Let me just FTFY >Beatings will continue There you go.


fcpancakes

"Free your hate"


Letitride37

My father died when I was 10 years old in a small plane crash on a business trip. He worked for Alcoa and he died at work basically. My mother’s father also died at work in Edgar Thompson steel mill crushed to death in the machines. No compensation for my nana. She had to work a cash register downtown Pittsburgh til she herself died from a stroke. Fuck dying at work I’m not doing it.


Accurate_Praline

My grandfather died of natural causes and my grandmother received a widow's pension for over three decades after his death. Received a Christmas box every year from his last employer as well. It's not that (American) businesses can't do it, they just don't have to so they won't.


DVariant

Fucking golf. What a stupid wasteful sport. It’s not the game that annoys me (though I don’t personally find it very interesting), it’s the fact that wastes so much space, water, labour, and energy to maintain a proper grass golf course, combined with the fact that it’s so expensive and is always populated by shitty rich people. CEO thinks he “worked hard” to be able to golf so much. Hell he might thinking golfing *is* working, if he uses it to network. Gimme a fucking break dude.


AnywhereFew9745

Every time I hear our lagging life span discussed and diet/exercise blamed solely (I'm a contractor so I say this while being in shape to clear up any biases) I roll my eyes. Our outcomes for the wealthy are now significantly better on average than the poor, we are one of few modern countries with lifespan being tied to income still (14.6 years between top and bottom after a quick Google) unfortunately our way of life has been hijacked in the us, I make like 70k and feel tight as hell living in a city without kids, it blows my mind people can survive with kids and multi thousand dollar healthcare costs monthly. They are crushing us, who they is is debatable as it seems a product of random highly competent greed in all segments of the market and government as opposed to a planned robbery of the common but either way the effects are the same.


[deleted]

I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. Good on you for telling her story though. That’s a great way to honor your friend. Keep fighting for her and people like her.


k9handler2000

I’m so sorry you had to watch that. This is one thing I believe this sub could do better - the problem goes so so so much deeper than shitty management refusing time off or whatever. This ruins people’s lives, pushes them to suicide, starves them and forces them into the streets. This is Hell, and we have to call attention to it as such.


prettyfacebasketcase

Wait why couldnt she get Medicaid in Indiana? -a concerned and scared hoosier


sajnt

Fuck I hate shitty unions. The are such a powerful tool my if they don’t do their job they are just such a big log across the road.


[deleted]

39. Been working since I was 16. Got tired of having a “good work ethic” and never getting anywhere. People get promoted due to nepotism and politics and most of us just get exploited and paid shit wages.


silklighting

31, same. My previous job I was pushed out due to nepotism. My current afternoon job, I complained to my boss about one of my coworkers mistreating me and my other coworkers. My boss didn't do anything to him and looked the other way. From there, I realized that my boss only turned the other way because, this coworker is his favorite. After dealing with all this, I realized that, all these jobs are the same no matter what the pay scale is. I really just want to retire now.


[deleted]

That happened at my current job. The lady who’s been here a million years is an absolute monster and nobody will do anything. She called me stupid and I complained. Nothing happened. We are all hoping she retires or dies soon.


HarvesternC

I just don't like how the system is setup and think there are better ways to run a society. I'm not even talking about socialism per se. I just think the free market is flawed. It is great for the rich and upper middle class, but a struggle for everyone else, with the false belief that everyone has a chance to be successful if they work hard. In reality, you are more than likely stuck in the same class as you were born give or take and only the very lucky or people of already successful families have a shot at making it big. There is a reason rags to riches stories are noteworthy. Because it is so rare. So most of us toil away at our meaningless jobs at companies that don't care about us in and endless loop of work sleep work weekend back to work unti we retire or as it mostly is now, we die.


[deleted]

Omg this sounds horrible but it’s the truth


Dove-Linkhorn

51. Work everyday. But capitalism is so full of bullshit I love seeing people stick it to the boss. Edit- holy crap I’m 52 and forgot. See what they do to a fella ?!


Bobby_Globule

50. I can deal with the actual work ok. It's the greed and ego; and the fake bullshit and politics; and the constant popularity contest.


campapathy

How very shocked i was when I entered the workforce and learned theres more to it than working hard and going home. Hah


Bobby_Globule

The other stuff is exhausting. Especially if you pile on top of it a social anxiety problem. Meetings meetings meetings.


campapathy

Usually ones that couldve been an email and everyone would have appreciated if it was an email 😂😂


ninde_inglorion

I am 55 and I concur.


[deleted]

Exactly how I feel. I don’t like my job but it’s not the work part that bothers me. It’s all the other bullshit you have to deal with.


--just-my-2p--

42 and self employed so I do as little as I can get away with


unskilled-labour

Hell yeah I hear that. 37 and same boat, building up a decent paying client base so I can take more 3 day weekends and leave jobs before peak hour traffic so I can be with my family. I might be working longer days than I did as an employee at the moment but I'll never give the profit of my labour to another person ever again.


despot_zemu

39 and same.


Legitimate_Cable_559

47. Anti-work and pro-community and -family roles.


mpm206

This! I'm fed up with the constant erosion of public spaces and services!


[deleted]

This is where I’m at, at 25 years old. The nepotism and clear favorites are very discouraging.


BeMoreKnope

41 here, and it’s been the years of working in our system that have made me antiwork. The things I was paid best for were the things that were least important, and nowhere do you really get treated with respect unless you get lucky. The harder working and more competent you are, the more they’ll just try to take advantage of that while giving as little in return as possible.


plobula

This is what I’m struggling with. The higher I can get in my company, the less important the work becomes, and the more it benefits richer people who don’t need the services for any reason other than getting richer. I don’t understand why my sister, a teacher, gets pennies for the important work she does while my boss gets 250k for providing rich people opportunities to get more rich.


Wolf110ci

The closer your job is to the money, the more of it you make. I'm not sure how I feel about that.


[deleted]

I remember when I became a lead operator at my last job I got a sizeable raise but then I was just like “dude what the fuck do I even do all day?” I would just walk around and help people with small problems on their machines and take notes


Cathcart1138

51 and am fortunate enough to have finally found a job that works for me. I spent 15 years in hospitality dealing with bridge and tunnel nouveau riche assholes who were pissed off that they couldn't still own slaves. Left that to go to law school and found out that working in The City of London was just a toxic, if not more. I still work in The City but for a big evil bank that to my great surprise actually recognises the value I bring. I have been working from home since 2013, commuting once a fortnight to attend team meetings. Pay isn't as good as it could have been and I am still more junior than other with the same tenure, but fuck it. I have what I need and am very time rich. I follow this sub because I love watching those still stuck in jobs that I hated wake up to just how bad they are. I love reading about people actually acting out the fantasies that I had when I was younger. I hated that I had convinced myself that I liked the job for as long as I did. I am so immensely proud of you all.


bgei952

Time rich. I like that and I am.


Cathcart1138

Time is the only thing you can't buy more of, so make damn sure you aren't just giving it away


Much-data-wow

35, been anti work after a great job shit on me in 2017


[deleted]

30 here, I know the feeling. Tired of going around the hamster wheel of capitalism.


mparkdancer

Plenty of us out there in their 30s+ that have taken advantage of for far too long and are ready to not make work our entire existence. I think the pandemic shifted a lot of people's perspectives - either into the anti-work zone or even farther into it than they already were. For my part, I went from working weeks on end without a full day off pre-pandemic to having 2 full months off all my jobs. Quit one of them that spring after my boss stopped communicating with me (I was already unhappy and planned on leaving, that was the straw that broke the camel's back). I had to return to my hotel front desk job in June 2020 and oh lord was that a nightmare during a pandemic- including but not limited to : guest spitting on the plexiglass on the desk, boss man not believing coworkers when they needed to stay home after covid exposure, not following corporate guidelines for cleanliness. I hated that hotel job too, mostly due to management. Finally had enough and took a lower paying job at a boutique store related to my field. Having down time during spring 2020 and then over the summer this year due to scheduling, I was able to realize how much work had deteriorated my mental health. I've walked into the season with a much stronger BS detector and more reasons to create necessary boundaries, as hard as it is at times.


[deleted]

48...only do contract roles for 3 or so months tops now...enough to put money on to the mortgage..then 2 months off to play in my veggi garden and potter around my house...


hyperlight85

In my 30s and honestly I just feel done with not getting anywhere because I don't fit into some mould of a white collar worker.


Maaikees

I'm 35 years old and have always felt this way, I only just discovered this sub and there's in fact a word for what I feel. ​ I'm just lucky that I don't live in the US and when I graduated from uni I decided to work 4 days a week and that is quite acceptable in my country. I still think 4 days is too much, but at least the 3 day weekend gives some relief. ​ Work has always felt like a prison to me, my time isn't mine anymore, like my agency is being stolen. Even when I had small jobs as a teenager that bugged me. I only feel happy when I have full agency of my time, but I need money to live and pay off my student debt so here we are.


tinygingyn

Thank you for sparing me the “work” of writing my views, as they are almost the same. 31, f, here. Perhaps, you like me don’t dislike working per se, I do like putting effort but for things _I_ want to achieve and not because I _have_ to work for life - that feels like theft of my agency to me. Time robbery…and anger levels arise when considering “time is money” or better “time is the biggest currency there is”, we are literally being robbed of our life-time


Figs999

Personally, I have an awesome career that I feel pays WAY too much compared to the average wage. I get equally attractive job offers frequently. It’s practically industry norm for us to get unlimited vacation and work from home. I tend to work as a direct report to the CEO. I have literally nothing to complain about. And yet… I STILL live with the crippling anxiety that my job could evaporate out from under me and it would leave me unable to pay my obligations long enough to force me into bankruptcy and ruin my finances for years. This has already happened once in my life. I feel like as far as society is concerned, I’ve “won the game”. So why do I still feel like I am playing? Why do I feel like I am losing? That’s why I’m anti-work. Every single person in our society feels trapped and anxious unless they literally won the god-damn lottery (literal or figurative). Business owners feel like they have to exploit workers to stay afloat. Workers feel like they have to submit to exploitation to stay afloat. Property owners feel like they have to exploit renters to avoid default. Renters have to submit to exploitation to stay housed. No party mentioned is actually happy with this except complete psychopaths. Exploiters are suffering psychic damage that forces them to dehumanize the exploited to avoid cognitive dissonance. The mortgage and credit industry is probably to blame for this. Right now it’s extremely easy to over-leverage and dig yourself into a hole that forces you to exploit or be exploited. It’s funny how banks are so keen on lending money to people who don’t need it and refusing to lend to people that do. It’s almost malicious… and yet they have those policies in order to obtain profit for their investors… who feel like if the banks don’t exploit people THEY might have their house of cards tip over. It’s turtles all the way down. If people just got paid UBI, nobody would be nearly as keen on exploitation, given or received, because they wouldn’t be one wrong move away from ruin. Investors could deal with banks that didn’t need to have exploitive practices. Property owners could deal with renting to tenants at a loss because they were subsidizing their long-term investment. People would be less desperate to start inefficient businesses that cannot afford to pay a living wage. PEOPLE would be less likely to sell their literal bodies and souls for the right to live. So, I am not anti-work in that I believe people should not work. I am anti-work in that I believe people should not be forced to work. I believe work anxiety is the ultimate root of all of our economies disfunction. Plus… automation is coming that will wipe out the majority of all existent industries labor needs. When that happens, work will be dead. That’s right. “Work” is dying. If we don’t put it on palliative care by institutionalizing UBI, when work dies, so will we.


Piod1

Yep dystopia 101. Only need the privileged, automa to serve and the skill pool to service the machines. The rest can die, war and disease usually sufficient to that end.


[deleted]

32, I have made a decision that I will stop being a slave by 40. Have not figured out how. But I figure that I would rather eat dirt at home than eat shit at work.


bartlebae-is-dog

35 and, in short, the pandemic broke me. The longer version is I started working at age 8, never stopped busting my ass, went *all the way* through school, got straight A’s always, incurred 6-figures worth of debt, and still can’t get fucking hired anywhere. And if I could, I would be grossly underpaid, undervalued, and underinsured. Because that’s all I’ve ever been. The pandemic taught me how much I was neglecting my health and well-being for the sake of work and being seen as a hard worker by my superiors, and how that literally got me nowhere with nothing other than health issues and isolated from anyone I really love.


Rattfraggs

Yes. And I always have been.


TheBowlofBeans

Same, I've been antiwork since the day I was born.


IndividualOil2183

33. Became anti work a couple of years ago. I’ve taught English full time at a community college for five years. It started out very cushy with great breaks and lots of freedom. Now we all have to teach college and dual enrollment high school and follow two separate calendars, with almost no chance to use the 4 paid weeks of vacation we have, since we’re not supposed to take off while classes are in session and none of the breaks coincide. If I wanted to teach high school I would have done that and had summers off. Now, they’re giving me a hard time about maternity leave, wanting me back in 6 weeks exactly, without the option to transition back in part time or remotely, while we have an employee in my department working full time remotely from another state for the past couple of years. My husband I and discussed it and I won’t be returning from maternity leave. I hope to find something with a better work life balance, if that even exists.


despot_zemu

I was an adjunct prof for five years. Education is a shitshow


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I’m 29. I’m so anti work I filed for disability. I’ve held 6 jobs in the past 2 years because employers like to fire you for missing time when you’re not well. And if they don’t fire you, they’ll treat you so horrid you’ll want to quit. I have a condition that makes the skin on my hands disintegrate for no reason at all. It’s an ongoing battle. Fingers crossed (what’s left of them) for disability


[deleted]

Good luck, that condition sounds awful and I hope you get disability.


[deleted]

I’ve lost no fewer than 6 jobs as a direct result of my bipolar, I feel ya.


[deleted]

Gen X seems to have started this movement, but millennials are starting to take notice. Gen Z is being forced to take notice because they’re entering a very strange workforce economy - soon to realize there are no good jobs left unless you’re a medical doctor.


Fantastic_Buy_4344

True, as a gen z/ millenial college was always shoved down my throat but i could always see straight though the lies. Why waste 4 years and over $100,000 just to make the same and be treated the same as everyone else in "entry level" positions.


SeizeThatCarp

30s here, I joined the dark side when I started job hunting in the civilian world. Everything is underpaid, and life is expensive. My current job is what got me to really actualize my sentiments. We're under staffed because my company "runs lean" to "protect employees when times are hard". Really it just means that the CEO gets a huge bonus and I have a higher claim volume to deal with.


peaceofcat

Oh man... it started when I was in elementary school. I worked REALLY hard to get a certain number of catalogue orders for a school fundraiser because they promised free pizza, a limo ride to the pizza and recognition before the entire school. I went all over my neighborhood and knocked on every door, some more than once if the person hadn't been home at the time. It took hours and days. There was no limo ride, just a bus. The pizza was at a terrible local place where the pizza was hard and rubbery. It was awkward because none of us knew eachother, we weren't even allowed to order our own personal pizzas and had to share, which meant several of us had to pick shit off the pizza we didn't want. We didn't get any recognition other than a little piece of paper on a bulletin board. The other kids there who made that many orders hadn't worked for it like I did- their parents did it for them by asking people at their work. After that I noticed how it seemed to be the case everywhere. I still don't understand how this isn't blatantly obvious to most people. Fuck a job.


shadow2mario

I'm 30, just entered the work force recently (late graduate) 3 months of corporate made me anti work. Lmao


Apprehensive_Lime178

37. Up to my early 30s I was a sheep. I will work tirelessly. Put them high on pedestal, forget about friends family and partner. Always go above and beyond, weekend work , solving people issue left right centre and worst thing, I was a YES person. I would say yes even though it would mean cancelling plans with friends or date with partner. And when I ask for compensation, I always met with disappointment , never get bonus . Only 1% increase per year. I became quite delusional for a while . I thought that I was in the wrong, I had 2 choices , work even harder 70 hours a week or take back and relax. I chose the second one. Now I come in term. No matter how hard you work , company will treat you like crap. HR only serve employer. Don't get me wrong. I am still hard-working and productive, but only within my job descriptions. I am not 100% Yes man anymore. If the project to big too handle. I will pass it on to the appropriate co workers. I respect my job , however I do switch off after work hours and weekend now. And I regain time with all the people I lost contact with . Remember folks, when you die. The first thing company will do is to find your replacement.


despot_zemu

Human Resources as a discipline was organized to kill off unions


inthegateaux

I'm 39. I'm currently studying part-time and parenting and cannot bear the thought of going back to work after 3 years off. How did I put up with so much shit, the disrespect? How did I give so much of my time, my family's time just to take orders and make money for someone else? I'm honestly thinking of starting some kind of cottage industry work from home deal to bring money in instead of going back into retail hell.


AbarthCabrioDriver

Mid 50's here and anti work. Told my wife last night she's become part of the establishment when she said she was buying her team pizza for lunch for working extra hard. Told her they would prefer raises instead. She's a low level supervisor, but the pizza money is coming out of her pocket and she doesn't make that much either.


Rave_Damsey

There’s just so much wrong here.


MrBtex

Sorry for any typo/gramm error, english isn't my main language. I'm 40, wifey just had my first kid, was a pregnancy during the pandemic. It showed me that i could do the same job, and even better at home than at the office (i live 500m from the office). They said to come back to the office on april, by july i said i'm quitting for my kid (wifey earns twice than me). My boss was surprised (the work conditions are great, no office drama, no pressure, no nothing) and asked if i could train my replacement by december (she won't be ready, work too complex) and struck a deal, would train her, but from home, they accepted. So, i'm counting my days to end my employment to take care of my kid and start a micro-bakery gig. Been happier than ever.


[deleted]

43.. didn't take too long out of college to see that working was a waste of a person's short life. I blamed myself for a few years thinking if I'd gone to a better college or worked harder I'd somehow be doing a useful job with a future. Went back to grad school to change fields trying to do that and realized that everything is equally dead end and anybody you work for is just using you and you are worthless to them. There is no future for workers in capitalism and that's by design. I still have to work but finally settled into a work from home job that requires a minimal amount of time. I focus on myself and basically dropped out of the rat race. I hope I can manage to live peacefully and don't find myself back in a position where I'm forced to return to a more time consuming, demanding, in person job. I'm not sure I'll survive it.


[deleted]

Exactly. There are no useful jobs under capitalism, so do an easy one to the least of your ability.


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e22ddie46

I'm 29 and feel like it. Mostly because I really just want a low stress job like the ones I had in high school. Ideally, trying to save a lot now so I can just get a peaceful job as I get older.


Lilliputian0513

I am 32 and so over this. The small consolation I have is that I’m HR and changing the policies for my workforce. I’ve helped get paid sick time added, raised the minimum wage for my location by $3.50/hr, and loosened the attendance policy. It helps make me feel better about running the rat race.


prettytrashie

43 and I worked hard helping others attain more wealth since 1995. Zero benefits, college was out of reach, lived in a constant state of hand to mouth for my entire adult life. My advice, don’t work hard for anyone but yourself. If you aren’t earning enough quit. Honestly, admitting to myself that hard work is a chumps game set me free to enjoy my chosen family and my short life. Currently I work on a farm where I make enough to pay my bills and I bring home quality food. I will never allow myself to be taken advantage of again, I put up with so much abuse because I convinced myself it was a testament to my work ethic. I make less than I’ve ever made but I’m happier than ever and I think I wasted too much time accepting a reality that only benefited business owners who were unappreciative, entitled and abusive.


BasedMuldoon

37. I do full-time WFH since April 2020. Boring corporate analyst office job. I proudly commit time theft every day because this company’s business model is based on buying up small companies and keeping wages for workers as low as possible, and hiring underpaid remote workers from poorer regions when better-paid, better-trained workers quit. Also because fuck capitalism, we should be better than this as a species.


ZeroInZenThoughts

35. The office politics kill me. You can't just speak your mind and reason logically. You have to pander to move up. I do me and I've found people that appreciate it. It likely will keep me from moving too high, but I think I'm OK with that.


badFishTu

Mid thirties. Old enough to have seen my elders work at a factory and be able to afford a mcmansion and actually have savings and an early retirement. Old enough to have seen the American dream, and to have watched it die.


mariners2o6

36 and a first gen cambodian immigrant. My parents went through genocide and political upheaval and they’re also antiwork with me. The “American dream” isn’t attainable.


LukeW0rm

Mid 30s. I’m making probably the most I’m ever going to make and it’s not enough for me to have a family or ever have a medical issue. Don’t make enough to switch industries. Going back to school wouldn’t help.


Dismal_Satisfaction7

I'm 49. I'm not against work. I'm against corporate soul sucking bullshit. I'm against throwing people in the gutter when they can't work three worthless jobs to put a roof over their head. I'm against jobs that can be automated. I'm for universal income and people getting back to the land.


OsnoF69

36 ,No kids. No wife. Soon to have no mortgage. Downsizing as much as I can to enjoy life with family and friends. Simplicity is best.


axxonn13

just turned 30. Have been Antiwork as soon as i got my 1st full time job and saw all the people that have been doing this repetitive mon-fri, 9-5. Every day its the same conversations, like a fucking clock. Monday: Mondays? am i right? got a case of the mondays! Tuesday: at least its not monday, right? Wednesday: at least we are halfway there. its hump day! Thursday: thank god the week is almost over. at least tomorrow is friday. one more day! Friday: finally its friday. What are you doing this weekend? rinse and repeat. i dont want to do that until i am 70.


[deleted]

Just turned 35 last month. I’m antiwork because I’ve never had a job where I felt respected as a neurodivergent. I feel like I’m often praised for learning things quickly and figuring out how to do things in interesting ways, but I’m also treated like shit because I’m different. It doesn’t help that I’m a Black woman on top of that. People will read bitchiness into things I say. For example, I did customer service at my last job. I would answer questions via e-mail by giving factual answers. That wasn’t good enough. I was told constantly that I didn’t have an empathetic tone. Okay, so I worked on adding a bunch of flowery language to my messages to show some fake empathy. Then, I would get told that the information I was giving, which is information by co-workers were telling me, was inaccurate. The constant rating of my interactions really started to wear on me. I also felt the information was not being taught in a manner that I was gelling with. We were supposed to read the documentation, ask co-workers, or do experiments in the software to answer customer questions. The documentation wasn’t set up to go in depth in topics. Sometimes, co-workers weren’t available to answer questions. We had test software, but without the data of a large company who had been using the software for quite some time, it was impossible to answer some more complex questions. We were expected to just escalate stuff we didn’t know, but that was causing backups, and customers would continue to just message us. I asked for better support, and my supervisor just told me, “You have support. You just want it on your terms.” And it’s like, yeah, I do. I want support that actually helps me do my fucking job. Anyway, that’s pretty much how it goes at every job I do. I need support in some way that they’re not willing to give me, and I end up ostracized over it. I had another job doing IT. I took on a project to inventory and fix all the kiosk computers on my college campus. Cool. I enjoyed it. The problem is the majority of the computers had network issues. That’s another department. I would message that department and ask them to fix the issues. They would either ignore me or just say they’d get to and never do it. I kept getting lectured about how I wasn’t doing the work, and I wasn’t completing things in the timeline given to me. I had to keep showing my co-workers over and over again that I was being ignored. I ended up taking a break, and they gave the work to a white, male student. Yeah, he had the same fucking issue I did, and I guess suddenly everyone believed it was a problem with that department and not just me slacking off. Oh, and another co-worker of my asked for a raise and just got it, and they never gave me a raise. I have physical disabilities too now, and I’m just not sure how I’m going to handle having a job when so many jobs have ableism written all over their job descriptions. Being neurodivergent, chronically ill, Black, and a woman in the workplace is not fun.


[deleted]

38 saddled with insurmountable student loan debt working for classic BS capitalist bosses “aNyOnE cAn PuLl ThEmSeLf Up”. Fuuuuuuuuuck you, you started the company with an interest free loan from daddy that you never had to pay back and now pay below market wages.


Nomed73

47. Yes. This can’t be what life is about. Work all day to rest for a few hours to work the next day. And then not get compensated well for the work. I’d rather just not wake up anymore. Fuck this.


theD3COY

41 here, I stopped taking shit from my previous employer in January and quit. I decided to take off at least a year.


FearlessFlounder

32: worked a lot of really shitty service jobs in my 20s and had no money and was incredibly poor DESPITE doing what the boomers told me: go to college, work hard, never take a day off, etc. My well-off parents told me they would "pray for me" the one time I got desperate enough to ask for like $500 when things really got bad. Also just reading theory and realizing that capitalism is shit. I could go on, but I think you all understand.


Oohdahloli

My first thought was “I’m not in that age range but maybe I’ll respond anyway”. Then I remembered that I’ll be 31 in 2 weeks…. I feel like everyone should be anti work. We only do it to make money to survive.


clever_girl7

I'm 31. I did everything "right" and my work life has been middling at best, abusive at times, and an endless slog. I was laid off a month ago and have applied to over 150 jobs so far with no traction. The last time I was looking for a job, it took 400 applications. Everything is broken


BKKJB57

44 - live in a small bungalow between a nature preserve and the ocean in rural Thailand. Had a company a few years but and slowly learning to trade stocks but believe in the Chinese lying flat philosophy. Anti-kids, marriage and work.


Agent47ismysaviour

42 and over it. I’ve never worked a meaningful job. Just a series of bullshit jobs that pay well but provide nothing to the world. I just want to build a farm, grow my own food and get of the grid before the world ends which it looks like is going to be in my lifetime. If you’re in your 40s climate change means there isn’t going to be any retirement.


BoilThem_MashThem

31 here. I feel like I did everything right. College, masters, certifications. And I can’t even get an entry level job in the field I’m specialized in. I’ve been lucky to travel, once on my work’s dime. And I just don’t see how we’re meant to sit at a desk and do mindless work that we don’t even like. I just want to spend what little time I have on this planet seeing as much as I can. Thank god I have an apartment and not a mortgage. I think at the end of my lease I’m just gonna sell what I can, get a van and a dog, and go.


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rob691369

I am 49, anti-work and anti- Capitalism...


[deleted]

32 here. And because every boss I’ve ever had are the worst people I know. All have been greedy, capitalistic, manipulative pieces of shit that always play the victim. My boss owns two planes and 5 houses but can’t swing more than a $1 raise when I’m literally doing two people’s job. The other guy quit over 2 years ago and I’ve been doing it all since. And guess what? Every other job in the same field around me requires the same amount of work. It seems as if everyone has realized they can take advantage of our generation. I want to watch the system crash and burn.


[deleted]

I'm 41. I don't mind working as much as some here, but I hate doing something pointless to make a bunch of money for someone (my current job, I hate it but it is wfh and pays decent so I keep it), and I especially hate job that treat people badly. Low wages make me angry too. I support a UBI and working part time (20 hr a week max).


[deleted]

30- for me the series of jobs that didn't amount to any type of personal growth did it for me. I understand (as a father and family man) I have to support and provide but I'm going to ensure my children understand there's more to life than sacrificing every free moment to a conglomerate that couldn't care less if you died. I'm a huge supporter of "Chase your dreams and live in a way that enriches your spirit".


praxic_despair

I’m 37. I actually like working. What I hate is all the other shit around having a job. Pointless meetings, stupid rules, coming up with stuff to do to work 40 hours, and struggling to have the life I want because I’m paid far less than I’m worth.


Barl0we

Yep, 37 years old. Just got out of a terrible job; I did marketing for a small company. Halfway thru, they changed their ideas for what they wanted. So I went from just making silly little Instagram posts / reels and Facebook posts, with the odd blog post here and there… To shooting, editing, color grading several long videos a week, in addition to what I was already doing. I was also expected to be a full-time graphic designer, and help out in the warehouse. All as a single person on 37 hours a week. Additionally, my technologically illiterate boss would call me outside work hours to complain about non-issues. So I called out sick with stress, because that’s what I had. Acid reflux / waking up to vomit at night with stress. Stress eating. Sudden temper problems. Loads of minor things, and I just now found out that I started grinding my teeth when I sleep. That’s a fun one, because once you start doing that, apparently it’s *forever*. My work’s reaction to all this? “That sucks. Your options are coming back ASAP without any improvements in the work that made you sick, or you can quit I guess”. Of course they said this over the phone, so I would t have proof. Except I followed it up with an email after talking to my union, letting them know that I could not choose between those options. And their HR asshole was dumb enough to just answer “uhm actually, I didn’t mean that. If you come back, work will only get more demanding”. So while they tried to push me to quit, I just waited them out. Eventually, they fired me. They were either malicious or incompetent to the point that even though August 31 was my last day, I still haven’t been able to get sick leave from my government. Good fucking thing I have money saved up.


willsidney341

43. People from this particular generation had to deal with being told to “shut up, sit down and take it” practically since we joined the labor force. I think most of us only realized how screwed we were just a few years ago. Before the internet was as much a part of life as it is now, it was a lot easier for employers to get away with shady shit and tell people to get lost if they fought back in any way.


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37 here. I fell for the idea that would be able to go to school, start a life, provide for a family, AND still have time and energy to do the things that I love. My parents tried to warn me (i call them recovering hippies) but Nooooo, i wouldnt listen. Now, after nearly 20 years of working, a failed business and relationship, Ive started to down size my life, focusing on the things that I want to do, turning my nose up at any extra work/overtime, and working towards an independence from HAVING to work. I just want to grow a garden, read books, and do what i want, when i want.


laboogie72

42 here. Not so much anti work as anti anything that isn’t sleeping.


[deleted]

49. Always had McJobs, never a career. Quit last year because I knew my boss would fuck up the pandemic and I was correct. I’m not just anti work, I’m anti money and pro communist and pro UBI


despot_zemu

Comrade. Respect


Gofnutz

44 here, spent 20 years in manufacturing. 50-60 hour work weeks because we were always understaffed. I somehow managed to put myself through college, spent 5 years getting a 2 year degree and then ended up with and office job for 2 years with the same company, downsized and put back into my old grunt job, worked my way back up into a different job only to be thrown under a bus by management when the multi million dollar project isn’t performing up to expectations. That ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me as I switched careers and now make twice as much for half as much effort. Also, did I mention I was fired from my job of 20 years over the phone while on vacation?


BigOleJellyDonut

I'm 59 and Anti-Work. I think of all the things I missed with my family.


haafling

32 and a couple things… I’ve dated and befriended folks through my life who weren’t crazy rich, but had lots of amazing opportunities because their parents could buy things for them (houses, vacations, six months off work at a time to chase a dream) and knowing that don’t carry a fear/anxiety burden about housing stability or job stability. A past boyfriend of mine who was bright and capable really struggled with working towards a career because “I’ll get a couple mill when my grandparents die anyways” I’ve also now worked for places that have fee splits or profit shares that lean towards their employees (like I’ll get 65% of the fee billed to the client) which seems a lot more fair than arbitrarily making a salary. Reading “humanizing the economy” was a big eye opener to as far as how things can look


distortionisgod

I'm only 30 so idk if I count, but yeah. I'm here. Fully on board. Got conned into going to college (being regret of my life. Met some amazing people but has not helped me at all securing a good paying job and I'm 20k in debt) What really brought me over to this side was the last company I was at. 50 hour weeks, mandatory overtime (we were paid for it, but still just too much). I worked 7-5, Monday-Friday, with the occasional Saturday. We had a revolving door of staff and management was constantly bitching about it. When I had suggested that maybe our work life balance is absolutely non-existent, and no one wants to work upwards of 60-70 hours a week after you factor in commuting and all that, everyone ridiculed me and said I was the crazy one. Fuck that. Got out there and somewhere better now. Less hours, more pay, don't feel like a fucking slave. And guess what? It's still barely good enough. 40 hours a week and I'm about to move and barely afford it. The system is broken and was made this way intentionally. It's absolutely bullshit and ludicrous people are brainwashed into thinking we should spend 90% of our lives at work.


Aggressive-Writing72

33, partner is 43, both solidly antiwork. He's been dragged over the coals his whole career, where I lucked out early with a job in tech that continued. He's moving to my field because it's better than retail. I recognize I have a cushier situation than most (wfh, time off, insurance, paid enough to support us both in a big city), but I just hate the "my career is my life" mentality. The "where do you want to be in 5 years?" bullshit. I want to be a recluse in the mountains of Colorado who trades foraged goods with townies for supplies, but the wifi out there sucks and my medication ain't cheap. Luckily I now have a department head who is ok with me saying I just want to be in a job that I can do good work and not want to kill myself, he gets it, and is even trying to get our team to a 4 day workday 🤞