Why You Hate Modern Work

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[@justinfreeman4614]

You mentioned chasing achievement is only giving not receiving. Depending on the achievement and the why for it that may not be accurate. Many of my achievements make me feel proud because I know I made a positive difference in the world.

[@Superrdicer]

@unsolicitedadvice9198 How can I improve and properly apply my English vocabulary ? Your vocabulary impresses me!

[@fatsacktony1]

You need to learn about and work on your sound levels.

[@robertagren9360]

It's not art. It a money laundry scheme

[@iantherealg]

Why do you cut after every sentence? Is it because you want to sound coherent and smart, but fear you arent as coherent or smart as you would like?

[@nineten9011]

I’ve reached a point where I hate competition, I just wanna live my life without scheming around to get ahead of people.

[@wdf70]

Likewise. It's to the point where I don't even bother with any type of PVP games because I don't want to deal with sweat lords who treat the game like a 2nd (or 3rd) job when I just want to enjoy a game.

[@nineten9011]

@@wdf70 and sadly I am surrounded by extremely competitive people, and an environment that will gladly see my downfall It’s getting mentally draining, I really hate work.

[@cameronjadewallace]

🤷 in my business I don't have competition.... I just do my job and apparently that sets standards. To be fair, washing dishes isn't hard...

[@FactsCountdown]

The only goal of life on this planet is compitition of survival of genes. It's so pointless survival game with no end goal.

[@macflod]

Me too. I just started working as a contractor and now i just do my own thing, im my own boss and i go in , do my work and get out. If people getting into disagreements on wats to do things i merely advise and if they don’t listen i don’t care, i just do what they want.

[@denedennie1516]

When i tried to start leaving at 6 ( they only pay me 8 to 5) this was frowned upon. Not by management. By my colleagues who wear their burnout as a badge of honor. Working weekends, evenings,60-70 hours a week for FREE does't make you a hero. It makes you a clown.

[@CaptainSeaDog_]

When I finished High School I got a job at a compounding pharmacy as a helper. I had a co-worker who would wear burnout like a badge of honor. She claimed she was the hardest worker in all the pharmacy. Funny thing is she’d been doing the job for almost 16 years and never gotten a promotion despite being such a “hard worker” even coming in on weekends plus working an extra two hours each day. She would always claim young people never worked and were lazy. Meanwhile my part time self going to college while I worked managed to get both a raise and promotion the first year. All I did was the bare minimum too. I think that was the best lesson anyone can receive is… going above and beyond for a corporation isn’t worth it. If you want a promotion just become the boss’ buddy its more lucrative.

[@MatthewKelley-mq4ce]

I think it's fine if they want to do that, but expecting others to do the same is ridiculous.

[@asayasartworks]

I remember I used to be a clown in a system that replaced me instantly during 2020 layoffs

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

​@@MatthewKelley-mq4ceNo its not, they are the type of bootlicker that management uses as excuses that others should do it also. Such people deserve to lose their jobs making it harder for others.

[@MoonPhantom]

I also started to read a book about sleep by a sleep professor, it expressively states that if you sleep less than 8 hours it absolutely reduces your productivity and consistency, even if it's just one hour less... So not sleeping is actually really stupid because it just makes you LESS productive and you'll end up making the same amount of work regardless, heck you may even do less work if you don't sleep those 8 hours a day.

[@williamarthur4801]

I've always taken the view an employer pays me just enough to stop me leaving and in return I do just enough to avoid getting the sack.

[@robinpage2730]

The Soviets had an expression that perfectly encapsulates this: As long as they pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

[@paulhiggins105]

Minimum wage, minimum effort.

[@LinBeReal]

​@@paulhiggins105 fair

[@erubin100]

Except "just enough to avoid getting the sack" usually means putting in 200+% and making less than zero mistakes.

[@MatthewKelley-mq4ce]

Those places are doomed to even worse turnover than retail and fast food.​

[@FarmingUnclear]

In a job interview, they ask you what you do in your free time and they expect you to say that you spend that time learning new skills that make you a better employee. Update 10/17/24 (2 months later): my boss just asked me to start reading books and videos for work on my own time.

[@Tecolote41]

Better be a good little slave-robot or you aren’t worthy of a job

[@Arejen03]

Y it's crazy

[@vetulamortem]

As if id have the time for that, 8,5 hours at work 8 hours of sleep 2,5 hours to get to work by bus and metro,theres only like 5 Hours left for life, 1 of em to eat the rest for having an existential crisis.

[@practicallyprinz]

Say what free time?

[@who_is_dis]

😂😂😂 Honestly, it’s such bullshit. I love the “don’t bring up salary first, and also don’t make it seem like it’s all about the salary”… BITCH, WHY THE FUCK ELSE WOULD I BE THERE?!? 😂 The one thing that gets me about this mass delusion is how much people bullshit themselves and others, and how almost everyone is aware of it and thinks the same thing yet rarely if ever are honest.

[@Kyrgizion]

As a 40-year old with two degrees and still working an "entry level" job, I kinda needed this. Thank you.

[@J31]

If you had to guess, what percent of 40-year olds with two degrees are still working an entry level jobs?

[@ginebro1930]

@@J31 yes

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

@@ginebro1930 That wasn't a yes or no question.

[@Yungkhalifa14]

@@theintrovertedaspie9095100% right man

[@davidstaffell]

​@@theintrovertedaspie9095he knows

[@asloii_1749]

It really sucks for creative people. I feel so empty and void when I haven’t written any music because I need to work to just stay alive. Life fucks all of us in the ass

[@SurpriseMeJT]

I studied art and politics only to fall back into IT and I literally cried in my car the first few weeks of work because it was so depressing from what school felt like. I did this for 9 f****ing years. I made it worth it by investing but it's all that investing I did which is forcing me to work ever harder again in soul sucking work.

[@stutisingh7205]

I don’t think there are specific “creative people”, we are all creative and we all are fulfilled by using our imagination and ingenuity albeit in different ways. We all feel a void, not just “creative people”

[@edcomettant]

I feel you, same here, but I think all are creative people but there are people who wanted to live on its creativity and for that people I believe it’s getting harder and harder. My vision is that we need to join us in a collective and find ideas together with other creative people but also not just for work but for sharing emotions and help each others in these times. Alone we can’t change too much but together I believe we can. I’m here if anyone think in the same way. Big hug to everyone reading this

[@SC-gw8np]

@@stutisingh7205 Sorry, but you should ask yourself why you felt the need to make that comment. Everyone isn't the same and everyone isn't 'equal'. We are not all creative and we are not all intelligent.

[@spookyacti0n45]

very much so.

[@cherryhazard8002]

I truly don't like how modern work has made people lose their visions, their hobbies and soul. Imagine how different and lively everyone would be if they didn't have to work on a 9 to 5.

[@williamarthur4801]

9 to 5 ? if only.

[@deathreaper-rf6xz]

Real I work even more than that and is exhausting because I barely have time for my hobbies anymore

[@kevinsayes]

@@deathreaper-rf6xzyep…that was the point of his post…we understand that

[@killjoyredux8361]

These days it's a 7 to 7. 9 to 5 is leisurely

[@ghostcloud7853]

And all of this just for profit (I mean who says on their death bed: "oh I made that much money, I have come so far in life")

[@AnaViolinViola]

I think the pandemic was quite badly planned in that sense….everyone, while staying at home, realised that life is not only about work and started thinking a lot about work-life balance. Because, in order to start thinking, you need to stop what you are doing for a moment …and this is what happened

[@shiptj01]

I agree. I had a feeling that COVID would change everything psychologically and philosophically.

[@goon5544]

Covid in that regards has been a blessing for me. I work a lot less and am less stressed.

[@lynnfisher3037]

​@@shiptj01And the people behind it are exstatic.

[@theLowestPointInMyLife]

ones you get a taste of not working, its hard to go back

[@andrew5222]

@@goon5544how do you work less and still afford to be alive?

[@Thebeekeeper568]

I quit my job because it was making me an angry person. I wasn't myself. My salary was 70k a year. Now I don't have much but I'm happy.

[@lynnfisher3037]

That may work if you live alone. Try doing that if you have four other people sucking the life blood out of you.

[@mistermoo7602]

​@@lynnfisher3037 Nothing more detestable in this world than someone who sees their own family as some kind of burden.

[@Filotus]

​@@mistermoo7602I think that's just the way you interpreted his words. We don't really know what he's going through.

[@jadestory8410]

​@@mistermoo7602 There's a reasonable amount of 'burden' that a family can be. Kids, and the elderly cant pay for themselves, and they shouldnt have to. But we as a people are making less, and less to the point that an extra mouth to feed without extra income is so strenuous that if you werent struggling to put food on the table before, you are now. And thats sad. I should make enough to take care of my dad and take him to the doctor. I should make enough to be able to buy a house. But I dont. And many people dont. Its all too much. And its not our family's fault.

[@ithmiths]

The baby boomers made sure that the American dream died wifh them thats for certain

[@ChakatStormCloud]

"is work slowly killing us" No, no... by all accounts it's actually quite quick about it.

[@TheMrEcks]

"what do you do?" "Perpetually fight to survive in the face of insurmountable odds"

[@stateofchrysalis5483]

"Suffering builds character"

[@JeffCaplan313]

​@@J31 Because we're trying to make women happy?

[@stateofchrysalis5483]

@J31 it isn't easy being built for greatness, and being expected to participate in a world of averages.

[@jimmcd5660]

I am stealing this, and using it the next time I’m asked what I do. Thank you!

​@@J31Easier than all times that will follow... no... easier than the preceeding...not by any real numbers. In a failing state created by optimistic idiots who act without thinking ... yeah.

[@Iron_Wyvern]

I've always said it is literally *insane* that we have normalized working at LEAST 40 hours a week, 5 days in a row. That is so much time taken up to just pay for shit with fiat currency. Then, oh wow, the weekend. A whole two days that are spent ALSO WORKING on stuff around the house, maybe a second job, doing chores etc etc. barely any time whatsoever to do anything else or actually rest. This is lunacy. Also, the concept of "vacations", where you must spend thousands for a few days, stress about packing, stress about travel, stress about itinerary, stress about check ins and check outs etc. Hardly relaxing. Modernity is essentially just a stress simulator.

[@stateofchrysalis5483]

The stress definitely isn't simulated. It is real. It is the purpose.

[@killjoyredux8361]

Stress generator and amplifier. It's madness.

[@seetheious9879]

Why do you oblige yourself to conform to this norm? You are free not to and that is the virtue of our system. The problem with other systems is that they take away this freedom not to conform to the norm.

[@Iron_Wyvern]

@@seetheious9879 How am I to afford basic necessities of I don't work, though? That's the thing.

[@seetheious9879]

@@Iron_Wyvern Who said anything about not working? You could not do 9 to 5 by working freelance or part time, you could immigrate to a country with a lot of wilderness and be a hunter or a fisherman. You could go to unstable countries and work as a mercenary. You could work on ships which is a few weeks/months on and a few weeks/months off. You could start your own business and work whenever you want. You could be a volunteer or work for room and board in all sorts of countries. You could join an archeological dig. etc etc

[@dzaesonp8599]

Man this helped me realized that I am being cruel to myself. Thank you

[@ghostcloud7853]

Not just cruel, but you blindfold and handcuffed yourself from pursuing your dreams and wishes in life (the things that make you happy)

[@Eventzz0]

⁠@@ghostcloud7853no, we’ve been handcuffed by capitalism.

[@FactsCountdown]

The purpose of weekend is not us to give time to enjoy life but to recharge for week ahead.

[@charinaviljoen6415]

Thats so damn depressing

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

I watched a video talking about the lost art of leisure time.

[@GirtonOramsay]

It's pretty freaking true when you hear about how so many people describe their weekend by doing chores and having the "Sunday scaries" at the end. As a grad student with remote work, that sounds like a crazy concept, but makes sense for a 9 to 5 worker

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

I REALLY noticed the difference in how people treated and interacted with me. When I went through several years of depression, I often encountered a "get your shit together"-mentality, getting judged for how unproductive and "self absorbed" I was. That drastically changed after graduating from university into a "respectable" field of work. And you know whats the common nominator? In both cases, I am not judged for the person I am, but the role I play in society. With the difference being that I learned to not give a fuck about people who think that way and instead hold my true friends close.

[@CaliNic30]

​@@LostSoulchild89I feel this.

[@badart3204]

I mean yeah. People do not like free riders which is likely an evolutionary trait for group survival. Also some people might find that they don’t like you as the person you are independent of role. They saw you as a sad self absorbed wreck which would not be beneficial to associate with. People don’t just naturally care about those they don’t know

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

@@badart3204 I get where you are coming from. However, I do not know if you meant to insinuate that people with severe depression are the same as a-social people. It's not like most of them don't want to live a better live, stand on their own two legs. However, judging and shaming them for that (wich i would consider "free riders" to be) does not help - quite the contrary. It usually makes things getting worse. Also, I am not suited to properly judge how I may have come accross to others, or what they thought about me. All I can say is, that I do still feel like "me", but without depression. My humour is the same (wich, by the way, makes me wanna throw in that depression does not always manifests in deep sadness that is open for everyone to see), my hobbies are the same, my partner is the same. The difference is, that I can feel how people simply react differently to me now when I tell them my job versus before. Most people can't handle other peoples mental problems. It's hard for them to handle, usually considered a mental defence mechanism. (If you do not empathize with suffering you don't have to imagine it yourself.) I can kinda understand that. Those shoes do not fit me anymore though. Also, I don't think I agree with your last sentence completely. I rather put it this was: People tend to care more about people who potentially can fulfill a beneficial function to them.

[@hollyrich8169]

You are right: your role in society is the judging factor.

[@Ironwizard42]

Society is terribly cold towards those that form it. I feel like it's gotten slightly better after the pandemic. Hopefully we can collectively "get our shit together" and learn to build a society that is kinder towards itself.

[@aeixo2533]

"Is being a slave bad for our health? The answer is definitively yes" ...Shocking 😮

[@oscard9429]

Do you think working conditions were better 100 years ago?

[@Gen0cidePTB]

​@@oscard9429Nice working conditions are not the difference between slavery and employment. Choice is. That's well more than gone already.

[@oscard9429]

@@Gen0cidePTB There was even less of a choice back then, unless if you were a stay at home mom. Children used to work in factories they didn’t have a childhood like we do now. It’s just funny people complain about this stuff, then go home every night and watch Netflix for hours without doing anything to improve their situation

[@Gen0cidePTB]

@@oscard9429 You weren't there so couldn't say, but let me point out that most towns didn't have factories nor the means for people to travel daily to factories from satellite towns, so I find your expectation that everyone was in factories highly unlikely. I would imagine it was only the truly destitute that were in the factory, unless they had authority over the destitute. It was the city equivalent to being a miner. Dirty and dangerous work for the poor. Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers chose their own conditions mostly, and were the old world middle class. Whilst their children might have started learning the trade at the age of 12-14, they certainly had enough choice to experience more freedom than we do today, as they owned their businesses.

[@oscard9429]

@@Gen0cidePTB “You weren’t there so couldn’t say” My guy 100 years ago is well documented history, you probably also don’t believe dinosaurs existed🤣 If you’re over the age of 12 I feel bad for you bud. Go back to history class then we can speak again, because to me it’s clear we are living in the easiest times in history, but people fail to realize the terrible conditions people had to live in 100+ years ago

[@alexkaen1701]

My parents are Excessively Positive, and raised me this way. My whole life has been a race with a finish line ever moved out of reach. Nothing has ever been good enough, no success or victory ever worth celebrating, because there is always a higher peak to reach. I live miserably in hell, where my nightmares are lived out while awake.

[@ReactiveTraction]

Such a dramaboy. You'll shake it off soon enough and maybe you can forgive your parents. Maybe even yourself one day.

[@alexkaen1701]

@@ReactiveTraction This is the sound of someone who missed the point of the whole video

[@madalinradion]

​@@ReactiveTractionchoke on your oh too beloved work slave driver

[@mistermoo7602]

​@@ReactiveTraction You're brainless.

[@ellyneil8219]

Side note: You comment sounds like poetry or a mantra and I love it.

[@starboard7082]

I quit my job this week. It was a well paid, high status job. It was everything I could wish for as I set up for this career, yet I was extremely unhappy and unfulfilled. I don't know exactly what I'm doing next, but I decided to give myself some time to rest and think.

[@SurfingSerpent]

I like this giving yourself time to rest and think. That's the phase I'm in, after being worn out doing music lessons in the daytime while working a night shift to supplement my income. Right now, I'm in the vibe of slowing down to see if there's something I'm missing.

[@hollyrich8169]

God bless you draw close to Him.

[@ryanlaws4713]

Best you can do for yourself as we all need a breather and time to reflect. God bless, follow your gut!

[@dogeared100]

Courage

[@brainybananaproduction]

I did too! The stress was literally killing me. But now its been 4 months and I don’t know what to do!

[@gamergator2919]

The problem is that i feel like this doesn't actually work in real life. If i take a week off of work to recharge, i know that that means my next paycheck is going to be half as much, which put me behind on bills, which means i have to pick up extra days to cover for the lost money. Life is just a giant con. It makes me angry when people talk about the "nice things" in life. I promise im not an asshole, just sad.

[@connormcgee4711]

In this case you are not the taskmaster, you are being forced to work. This is not the case in your life indeed

[@nifftbatuff676]

Maybe you could try to reduce your expenses? How much of your expenses are related to work and that you pay yourself?

[@GirtonOramsay]

This sounds exclusively like an American problem, where we get zero mandated PAID vacation days. At least the rest of the world gets paid on their time off.

[@klausschwab11]

I just quit a job that gave me zero training, zero pay, and it was somehow my fault for not performing. They were all snakes that pretended to be nice. They paid me literally no money and complained when I decided not to work anymore.

[@poppipoppipopoppipoo]

the burnout society actually starts the moment you attend school, slowly and one by one, middle school, high school, college, and university, and at the very last, a corporate 9 to 9 job. it's so frustrating. i do study stem in college and i appreciate how it improves society, but i miss art and literature terribly. i often think i have sacrificed my passion and love for literature for the sake of some economic relief. i love this channel on youtube; i love how you talk about classic literature and philosophy. it feels so close to home in the heart, nurturing feelings. personally, i am also depressed by how modern companies are so boring. nobody wants to sit down and read poetry. it makes me feel so sad every day, as if i am self-wrecking my true personality and passion. i wish i had a person like you in my life who would make me feel inspired and help me get back to my roots.

[@AnimeFridays]

Modern companies look and are so boring by design. To crush creativity in the world and create a bland corporate world where money is power. And power is control. Hate the way how things are unfolding and it feels like nothing can be done about it at least alone. People can't really join together either because the family value is being abolished and people are trying to escape reality by using their smart phones and not engaging with the world. It all just feels like a big evil plan where we all are the ones getting the short end of the stick. Awesome pfp btw I love Toro Inoue. I used to play as him in All Stars Battle Royale. Was my favorite character in that game

[@bird-illeri]

if u don't mind me asking, what are you studying?

[@poppipoppipopoppipoo]

@@bird-illeri i study computer science

[@bird-illeri]

@@poppipoppipopoppipoo dayum, im gonna start cs studies this autumn too😔🤝 hopefully we'll get bearable jobs

[@poppipoppipopoppipoo]

@@bird-illeri good luck buddy 🤍 !

[@kayleighdriessen]

Now I understand why I've generally always been a little jealous of my pets' lifestyles like no bills or soul-sucking 9-5 or feeling burdened by modern society's suffocating expectations.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

You’re jealous of a pet? Do you wish to be a domesticated animal that lives at the mercy of your owner? One of the best lessons my father taught me was that everyone, EVERYONE, has a master. It may be a parent, a spouse, a boss, a politician, a customer, whatever. The beauty of modern life was that we get to choose our master. You can even change them as you see fit. But what you don’t get to do is claim you have none, and live as though their half of the relationship is still required but yours is not. That is emblematic of today’s society. My parents owe me shelter, freedom, cell phones, education, food, clothing, a car, but I owe them nothing. They get none of the authority, but all the responsibility. That’s a recipe for disaster. I chose God as my master. And then my wife, then my children, then the rest of my family. It is they that I work for, and it is I they work for. If you want to be free of modern society’s claims, I respect that. Turn away from the hollow lies of wealth, sex, drugs, and materialism. Choose a different master.

[@GonzoJohnny]

@@TheSpicyLeg The only master in my life is me. My parents, boss, politicians all tried to be my master and failed miserably. Nobody owes me any thing and vice versa. Your father taught you authoritative thinking but all that does is limit your thinking. We do agree on the lies of wealth, sex, drugs and materialism.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

@@GonzoJohnny Sure, you can ignore all laws, not pay taxes, agree to provide a service or labor in exchange for money and refuse to honor it but still get paid, etc. I totally believe that. If not true, then you have a master. Goethe said, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

[@GonzoJohnny]

@@TheSpicyLeg I can sell what i create and produce for money or barter without being anybody's slave. If they want what i got and they have something i want its a simple trade without any master. I don't need to break any laws as YOU suggested (criminal much?), why would you wish to break laws? Do you break your imaginary gods laws? that would explain your empty assumption since most people accuse others of what they constantly do them selves.

[@lynnfisher3037]

Hey there's always TEMU where you can shop like a billionaire😂

[@chonkychonk]

This made me realize how cruel i’m being to myself, again. Just because I watched a video on it doesn’t mean I’ll do anything to fix me. It’s like a snake squeezing my heart.

[@tinyfreckle]

The worst part is, we all know this internally. We all know we are too hard on ourselves, that our self flagellation is making us miserable, and that we should be more self compassionate. But we're all so indoctrinated it feels impossible to break out of, so we just add our failure to escape this mindset to the list of things to punish ourselves about.

[@infernob00m]

As a Canadian I hate modern work because if I stop being productive or take one too many sick days at any point I'm getting replaced. Every single job opening around here has literally over 300 applicants. It's the fear and knowledge that at any point you can and will be replaced, and you better have saved up a big enough safety net to carry you to your next job because competing with over 300 people is a nightmare.

[@T-KRD]

KPI's - the goal put in front of you is to meet, beat, compete; no level of achievement is enough. The cost of housing is a lifetime sentence.

[@SurpriseMeJT]

I definitely went into a job where everyone was going above and beyond but during performance reviews, nobody except the very most important knowledge folks got any raises.

[@jdogg1793]

A life sentence and then some i say, As someone young who financed a house with inheritance money from my dead parent (never would have saved enough otherwise..) I'd like to say that buying the house is only the first barrier for entry.. there are so many things you're going to stress about and worry about fixing given the outrageous prices of services and goods these days.. if you're going to buy a house, you better learn to be a contractor or have enough money (10's of thousands of dollars) saved to afford the maintenance on it. And before i get a litany of comments saying to just "youtube how to fix everything" sure.. if A. You have a TON of time to work on your house and B. Are okay with things not being done right, or finnished at all. And C. Provided you still have the money for the 500 trips you're going to make back and fourth to the store trying to get the right supplies to do the job, which is going to constitute most of your time. Or you can just get screwed and pay someone 50k put some cabinet and tile in your kitchen 😂 i cant afford a house, i most people cant these days, its just a fact of life. So here i am, my house is falling apart, i have no desire or means to fix it and shits just getting more expensive. RIP 💀

[@archieese9176]

One thing I've realised from the recent Internet blackout in my country is that time moves 10x times slower without it. Time is indeed relative 😂

[@Iwwilolnatchu]

Which country is that ?. Algeria ?.

[@richardrothey1725]

I have unbecome a " human doing" so I can become a "human being".

[@lynnfisher3037]

Nice platitude

[@EquestrianKatz]

Same here! Been the happiest I've ever been and Ive been making genuine connections with others.

[@ravenmage1859]

Scatman John reference spotted.

[@TheAnswerisSugar]

Welcome The Scatman's World (:

[@CosmoRyan]

As a high school teacher of 15 years, my job isn't one in pursuit of economic status, but more of personal fulfillment and enjoyment. After about 10 years is when I finally started to feel like I was doing a good job... not because I started working harder, but because I had begun to set boundaries with myself, started going home by 5, and didn't think of work for the rest of the evening. Once I did this, my improvement in mental clarity helped me make my decisions more easily and see the big picture of what I was doing, rather than constantly worrying about small details and increasing effort with diminishing returns. I'm an AP teacher, and my students results improved when I finally set boundaries with myself, put more responsibility on my students instead of all on myself, and stopped worrying too much and was able to make calm decisions from collected thoughts. Even so, there's still those who, intentionally or not, try to shame you, "leaving so early?"

[@awolgeordie9926]

I taught A-Levels (UK version of AP) from 2007-2022. I disliked the perpetual wheel of professional development. The idea there is NEVER a point at which you'll have arrived. An asymptotic destination always just over the horizon. You'll never be good enough. Boundaries are essential in the Ed-Biz.

[@94jmbottaro]

I dont care anymore about money, being the best, wanting to become famous , and everything society tried to tell us we should aspire to achieve. I just wanna live the day as normally and as zen as possible

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

You have your priorities straight. Seriously. 🙌🏽 ❤

[@TheDutchGame]

Yeah, that is what I am gearing up to as well

[@geode9512]

When a person becomes a means to an end they are dehumanized. This applies to ourselves. Don't dehumanize yourself.

[@FactsCountdown]

Humans are just a resource to be exploited for profit just like natural resources. The system Dehumanize us from the very beginning when we were children so that we get used to slavery.

[@BoboMagroto26]

Too late

[@justalostlocal]

​@@BoboMagroto26 Good thing about human beings are that they can learn. Never said it's easy to relearn, but it's doable.

[@munkymunk]

Kant was right

[@shadeaquaticbreeder2914]

9:30 my gawd son! The idea of a real community is so beautiful. I wish we had real community again, society today is So isolating and therefore also keeps you anxious bc you literally can't even trust family members.

[@adiab.5576]

This video came at the right time for me…I’m currently dealing with burn out from a job I dislike :”) Thank you for your videos!

[@unsolicitedadvice9198]

Ah I hope things get better soon! Thank you for watching them

[@VolkColopatrion]

Will first we have to ask the question is it the work that is running you out or is it the job environment? And if so can you use the means to an end of your work and employment as ways to fund things that actually give you life?

[@adiab.5576]

@@VolkColopatrion it’s the work environment…or to be more specific, the management in charge. I am in the middle of looking for a different job, but I haven’t found one that will allow me to cover my college expenses. Other times I don’t get a call back from jobs that I apply to. In the meantime, I am trying to make more time for my hobbies/interests outside of work and school so I don’t drive myself insane 😅

[@J5L5M6]

Awareness can go a long way, and you seem to have such. Late last year, I burnt out at a role and company which I loved and as result of which I resigned. Thankfully, I've bounced back and again feel like 'my personal version normal' again. After learning how many people were experiencing the same crisis, I now deem it "Requisite Burnout." Little things, performed regularly really helped me to regain my mental constitution... frivolous conversations with friends, family and even strangers. Sharing laughs, and being vulnerable with people (and myself) increased my ability to value my time and cherish things for the sake of simply being and getting to ponder and write about things and concepts. I took up sketching _and_ _I_ _suck_ at it, haha, but it's been great and rewarding! Keep going Adi. i'm sure you've got a lot to offer to your community and most importantly, to yourself. You're not alone in this!

[@adiab.5576]

@@J5L5M6 I’m sorry you had to go through such a difficult time. Thank you for the encouragement! I will keep it in mind.

[@vg6548]

22:57 I've always hated the word - human resources.

[@annasavchenko7592]

Yessssss

[@SuperLloyd84]

I appreciate the honesty of it. They're evil, and they're not shy about telling you so.

[@johnfreeman2956]

@19:36 bills are the gun to our head, and also time constraints are an issue. How am I supposed to do my laundry, wash my dishes, go to work, buy groceries, and cook those groceries, and then also have time to relax? I legitimately don't have that answer, and I wouldn't even know how to relax even if I could manage my time.

[@BudgetDiety]

I stopped at exactly the same point and looked down to say exactly the same thing. The "gun to our head" is just capitalism. We quite literally will have armed men remove us from our homes with force and take everything we have ever owned and the possibility of many other things from us if we try to take a break from this cycle.

[@devinkipp4344]

Personally, make more money to hire people to do it for you. Probably not very helpful but when me and my wife both worked we made a lot and I was actively looking for a maid. Also things like walmart pickup is nice for groceries. Haven't found the optimized way to cook other than just ise canned everything and dump it in a crockpot.

[@BudgetDiety]

@@devinkipp4344 I gotta be honest man, the advice to just say make more money is like, incredibly out of touch.

[@Bunny11344]

Ya that’s why my bf saids I have no home hobbies lol I see the gym as a hobby and lifestyle. Otherwise I’m busy cleaning cooking and prepping for the next day at home

[@uikmnhj4me]

Relaxation the way we consider it is a modern luxury. In the past, people would consider sitting around the fire at night relaxation, but they would spend that time reading or darning clothes or twisting rope or doing some other small task. You had to in order to survive

[@saintsword23]

I think this actually paints an incomplete picture about why modern work is disagreeable. There's three reasons that I think are the real culprits: 1. We've subtly made it required (and too much of it is required at that); modern workers are slaves-with-extra-steps. This might sound hyperbolic but hear me out. Lately inflation is burning hot and grocery costs have dramatically risen, but housing has done the same and has been doing the same for years. The older generations have choked housing supply for decades to drive up their own property values through a variety of policies: zoning requirements, building codes, amenities requirements, square footage requirements (tiny homes are literally illegal in most places because of this), HOAs, gentrification, rejecting affordable housing initiatives, and etc. I think most adults learn that material things really aren't all that great. It's a minority that never learns this. Most of us would be content with a small homestead. But you can't just go buy 1.5 acres, build a shack on it, and work the land. You'll be hit with all sort of building codes and ordered to vacate except in some extremely remote places that don't have such requirements. We also require property taxes or the state will confiscate your property. And this is if you can even afford 1.5 acres of arable land in the first place and you have the skills to do this escape (although I'm sure YT can teach you that). So despite your aspirations, you're required to earn enough to pay for the land and the minimum house you can put on it as well as the property taxes. This will be, at bare minimum, about $125,000 up front investment + the taxes, which is absurd compared to putting a $15k shack on $20k of land and being content. Few people can afford this except after a couple decades of work, and thus you are required to at least put in that couple decades of work. For lower income workers, they'll never be able to afford this and are required to work for someone else for life. 2. None of it is for a good cause. People, particularly men, can endure poverty, harsh conditions, and even the threat of death - as long as it's for a good cause. But the three things that we traditionally were willing to sacrifice our lives for, family, religion, and society, have all turned to garbage and aren't worth it anymore. Families are really hard to form and literally half the time end in heartbreak and failure. Religion has become a low brow, tribalized political machine and has little to do with reaching for the transcendent so much as preaching about how this group is bad and wrong and this other group is righteous and good. Society has become a polarized mess of radical ideology unworthy of defending or improving. Going to work just feels like feeding the machine. You're just toiling so the guy at the top, who was fired from his last executive position for having an extramarital affair with a subordinate, can give himself a $40m bonus in the same year as a 5% RIF where the rest of the company gets a 2% raise during 8% inflation. Because god forbid his yacht runs out of gas. 3. It doesn't get you much in terms of life satisfaction. This one is partially on people not understanding that materialism really doesn't make you happy and partially because we have a culture that expects you to be materialistic. I'm almost 40 and if there's something I've learned it's that contentment comes more from reducing your wants than fulfilling them. The materialistic teenage girl is a trope of misery and discontent for a reason! But we have a culture where it's "normal" to "want more," and maybe this is what the philosopher in this video is talking about. But the issue here is that working more and earning more can only buy you material things, at least after your basic life requisites are fulfilled. But this doesn't really increase life satisfaction all that much. Even worse, there are things that people think are "basic life requisites" that really aren't, and so feel required to do more work to fulfill those things. This goes hand-in-hand with point #1, where we've made a certain, very high minimum standard a legal requirement. It just means people are driven, both externally (point #1) and internally (point #3) to do too much work.

[@diablonemesis7962]

Well analysed brother.

[@DEadSpaCE211]

Here is Australia housing is the one thing you really need to be stable and have a family but it's the one thing they make it most hard to obtain. I'm not a materialistic person. I just want some fucking shelter. This is when you really see how sick it all is right now.

[@brokenrecord3523]

You are right that there is a conspiracy afoot to keep you enslaved, but you misplace the blame here, actually falling for the same bullshit that keeps us divided and fighting each other. Do you really think that "older generations" are the ones that made out? Boomers were turned into consumers, obsessed with possession, much to their misfortune, as you very eloquently describe. The Greatest Generation was killed in a world war and the Silent Generation had the Depression. All of these misfortunes were created by the greed of men and borne by the population as a whole. You have the opportunity to be aware that it is ALL BULLSHIT and it is, yet you bemoan that the system sucks because you can't have the possessions that you want, as if you wanting it is ok or that what you want is ok, but others wanting it is not. There is no one that is going to solve this for you, but you. Those in power think the system is working just fine. Those that have achieved the goals foisted upon them think they have won and are not going to change. Those that have nothing and cry "unfair!" might be incentivized to change the system, but lack the will. There are ways to live outside the system, but it is scary and you don't get to keep the security that others have traded their lives and happiness for. I'm guessing that you would be happy to live on a little plot of land in the woods and be care free, until you break your leg or your wife gets cancer, then you'll be singing a different tune as to how the system that you refuse to buy into won't take care of you. I'm guessing you're American, as am I. There are other societies around the world that might fit you better, because I do agree with you that America is one huge soul-destroying mess. If you let it.

[@MatthewKelley-mq4ce]

Add on to how much of it is just pure waste, like being paid to wait around and do nothing effectively. Or the reverse, having no freedom to have a break.

[@neilmcdougall4927]

@@DEadSpaCE211 I am in limbo paralysis - as all humans can't build their own shelters in nature

[@GriefTourist]

Due to mental disability I have not worked since 1984 and from the outside it looks absolutely hellish how people work now.

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

it's not that bad....I've been unemployed, self employed, and working regular job. The regular 9-5 is the superior one IMO. The purpose lise within the individual. I love what I do therefore, I dont dread going into work.

[@ROFLgator1]

​@JohnSmith-fo5cx how is working a 9-5 superior to being your own boss? I have my own business & have employees who work for me. I wake up whenever I want during the week, supervise whenever I'm needed & pick up a check after the job is done.

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

@@ROFLgator1 I'm not a child so the waking up whenever i want to part is sort of irrelevant. I wake up same time of day without an alarm and the consistency is most welcomed. it's a guaranteed paycheck as opposed to self employed where I can possibly not get paid. I currently supervise when I'm needed as well with a 9-5. Not quite sure how that is a boon unless you're afraid of responsibility.

[@karansena]

​@@JohnSmith-fo5cx It's not about working hard but working smart.

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

@@karansena lazy much? why not both? getting alot done and working hard == good and satisfying day.

[@sarawilliamson5420]

The worst part is; this drive is to afford basic needs.

[@darthvader1494]

Only becouse one is reliant on companys & the goverment to provide basic needs. Look at the amish big strong family and community providing everything for one another. Without going to the extreme, if a family 3 generations support one another instead of doing everything solo the family unit would be so strong.

[@DampONion]

I spent 2 years in my mid 20s working part time, 9-3, 4 days a week and living at home after a total burnout from 4 years in London. I remember living in London and waking up with a perpetual feeling of bottomless dread every single morning. The feeling touched me to my core. I would feel breathless or like an elephant was sat on my chest. This was all induced by being massively over worked. The 2 years I spent working part time or not working were absolutely amazing and I was able to reconnect with that authentic state of childlike joy that I had lost for many many years... Life should not be about work.... It is slavery with extra steps. We need massive reform as a species into what our life force is put into... share holder value or "GPD" is not one of these things...

[@williamarthur4801]

I've always found it concerning when I hear parents say, 'i tell my little boy / girl (etc)" they can be whatever they want, when its quite obvious they all can't, I wanted to be everting from a trapper for the Hudson bay co. ( think revenant) to a diver on a North sea oil rig, neither of these were an option by the time I left school.

[@stevesmith4901]

Though my parents didn't explicitly tell me I could be whatever I want, the culture I was part of did tell me I could be anything I want, and I wholeheartedly believed. And now that I am past my prime, I find myself no where close to what I wanted. This makes me ask the question: If I could've been whatever I wanted, what explains, me not getting what I wanted?

[@whitesamurai]

​@stevesmith4901 the answer is you didn't want it badly enough. Well, that is the stock answer. The religious answer is that it wasn't meant to be: men make plans and the gods laugh.

[@NyaAnimeMangaLuv]

The “Gods” if there is any can fuck right off and get their slimey hands out of my life.

[@opticalraven1935]

​@@stevesmith4901you didn't fight for what you wanted. That's why.

[@kora4185]

My parents never really said I could ‘be’ anything but did so I could ‘do’ any job I put my mind into, and I remember thinking without even knowing how to formulate my thoughts yet that while that was great, that was not really interesting as all I wanted to learn to do was how to take care of myself, have a family and explore the world, and I genuinely waited for that answer in school. And once I realized it wasn’t about that AT ALL I started to panic and run away from it and every other professional would tell my parents I was running away duo to social anxiety and being too attached to my mom… lol I can’t continue to type cus I’m gonna start to cry, but my point is that the world was all wrong, and I noticed that early on, and everyone tried to point something was wrong with me and my family instead, even advising them to put me into a boarding school (!) and take add meds, to make me accept our situation in modern society..

[@kevinberkoh7243]

You may be the greatest KZbinr I have ever watched, no cash grabbes, no duplicous nature, your also not just riding on any trends, just genuine passion for the things you do, a true philosopher 🙏

[@DeJect_music]

It seems like society has made productivity become a weapon to the self, a gun of judgement pointed at the head everyday, but being too exhaughsted and numb to feel the bullet, so they carry on being worn down. I create something everyday, drawing, painting, writing, poetry ect. And though enjoyable, there is a certain feeling of burnout numbness that runs parallell to an enjoyment fuled compulsion. Interesting stuff, thanks Joe, always look forward to your videos.

[@sirg-had8821]

I bolt shit to trucks 8 to 12 hours a day. My shop doesn't have an HR department. When I clock out at the end of the day, my work stays at work. Office jobs pay better, a shop job brings greater peace to my life.

[@drvren030]

I had a breakdown last year after getting laid off, and since then I've taken all the time off to literally live only with myself and listen more to what's going on internally. It's allowed me to dig up a lot of the roots of the mental health issues I've developed over the years, including depression, anxiety, and how those have seeped into my physical health, one example being MTD. I developed severe premature greying in the last 3-4 years due to excessive stress , and I've been working through that. Came across this video and your channel during this transformative time in my life, and feel more affirmed and heard than ever! 😊

[@hinatachibi7223]

I was thinking about the work burn out and how ridiculous it has become to even get basic needs met since the cost of everything is so high. That we have to work for our entire lives which then lead to the dark thought of: "We only retire when we die."

[@bruho3556]

Ex employer of mine convinced me to take my laptop on my honeymoon. Worked ridiculous hours overtime for free regularly. Worked there 7 years overall. She ended up hiring a few family members. I only made it a year putting up with all the shenanigans. I was her money maker, no doubt. Over the course of that last year, I brought up several concerns with what was going on including legal problems -all ignored. That finally day, after I had beyond enough. I went into her office and told her I'm quitting. She tried her best to offer more money and begged me to stay. I explained how nepotism was the final straw. I shocked how pissed that made her. She told me it was my problem that I saw it that way. I've gotten to where I just hate everyone.

[@xenoblad]

I don't care about working really hard. It just bugs me to know that I'm enriching a billionaire family buying their 20th 100 million dollar yacht, while I'm struggling to pay rent that enriches another billionare family buying their 15th 100 million dollar yacht. I get getting skills to get a better job, but it's mathematically impossible for most people to get jobs that can sustain them well, even if everyone did exactly as they were supposed to do. I'm okay with people making more than me. Brain surgeons should make 10 times what I make. Should some savvy business investor make 10,000 times what a brain surgeon makes? If I had to save the life of 10,000 brain surgeons or Bezos, I'd pick the 10,000 brain surgeons every time, but the market would pick the opposite every time.

[@bannedeverywhere]

There's nothing special in brain surgeons there are thousands of them and they're excellent at sucking money out of patients and government. People like Bezos are priceless because even if there's a slim chance to develop a robot to make brain surgeries it will be technically possible to get rid of your brain surgeons taking millions for their butchery. I say technically because medical lobby will buy congressmen and block such innovation anyway to keep their priviledges. 😥

[@laju6398]

No one forces you to work for a mega corporation. If you work for a small, local business or even self-employed you aren't enriching any billionaires. Why do you even bring that up?

[@plutonix5792]

​@@laju6398Not everyone gets a choice on who they work for. Sure, it's your choice to apply and your choice on which field to go into, but in the end, where you go depends on who replies to you. Going online and applying to 100 corporate positions is easier and cheaper than running around the city and handing your resume to every small business. Tldr; Beggars can't be choosers. Even if a job or company doesn't align with someone's morality, they still gotta eat.

[@extendicus262]

@@laju6398did you miss the point intentionally ?

[@schmecklin377]

​@@laju6398and when those small businesses do well and encroach on the massive corporations space they buy them out or do any number of anti competitive measure to make them go out of business

[@Corroderptor]

Imagine someone finishing a mundane task once and saying “that wasn’t so bad” before you tell them they’re supposed to do that all day 5/7ths of their abled life. Priceless reaction right there.

[@preciousdishwasher]

I have been struggling putting this all into words of my own, and this is so nicely laid out that I will start quoting from this video. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

[@erobwen]

The main problem is wealth inequality that is approaching Victorian-era levels. So many in the modern world cannot even afford to have family and children, so this shows how poor we really have become. The world taxes labour and income, but forgot about taxing wealth. So we are killing the middle class. We are becoming increasingly poor. The work we do are becoming increasingly unfree and coerced. This has nothing to do with work itself, it is just inequality! Check out Gary Stevenson for more info on this! And no, I am not a socialist, I am all for free market and low tax on labour and income, I am pro-capitalist. But I am just against modern world feudalism! For us to have a functioning market economy, we cannot have monopoly and oligopoly! And by the way... I think the reason why we burn out is because of love of our children, or unborn children. When we see that our children are in danger of being poor, or in the case of incels, not having children at all, it is just rational biologically to sacrifice ourselves to save our offspring. So I don´t think it is as simple as saying that you could just stop. The only way to stop burnout society, is to make it easier to live a middle-class life so that people are not afraid that their children might suffer.

[@VBoo459]

You hit the nail on the head. IQ is deffo over 100. It reminds me of the movie Lucy, they made a statement towards the end where since we cannot replicate - we reproduce and this is an internal desire to continue our species. In the modern world it equates to exactly what you’ve said.

[@MotaTheBaptist]

They don't forget. They're in line of ppl who benefits from those "flawed" regulation and lnequaIities. They created the system. They ARE the system. And ofc, the system has to have the most benefit out of all parts of the society. They spend millions, billions to Iobby certain ppl. certain groups. so that they can reason with them behind the curtain to get under the Iaw radar, so that they can put more into their p0cket and share those extra with the one they reasoned with. That story will always remains in the darkness and blind spots in our eyes, since we're THE employees, the ever hard working mice of this system. That's why the most successful ppl in this world doesnt do the hardest work, they just know the best way to join the system, 3xpIoit it for their own gain, and happened to be in the spot to execute them all beautifully. Oh, and don't forget the praise and lies they gathered to cover as a myth for themselves, so that THE employees can look up to every once in a while, between their burnouts, to be the hope for the day of salvation - aka financial freedom, that never comes. The only way to get out of the rat race, is to break the loop, find one of the position they can fit in and join the system. That's why the world nowadays is full of hypocrites, full of sh 3Iit3s who look down on decent ppl working to their last day on earth, uneducated * who leads all the educated folks. Ask one person who happened to be your dream model of "hard work pay off" story about the current society, and you'll know the truth: Keep grinding and dont give a $%. Life is unfair, deal with it, until you cant anymore. It's alright to be sad. We're just a part of history.

[@MotaTheBaptist]

@@VBoo459 fyi, IQ 100+ means nearly 50% population on earth. It's not like nobody can point out some obvious sh. It's just, ****ship is becoming more and more 4ggr3ssiv3. Talking to thin air with no objective, nothing or noone to blame, and you can get scott free. While in reality, you know there are ppl who are responsible, and yet, every single thing you say in your realest moment immediately get deleted by "the big PC" Whatever, tmr work still needs to be done. Who cares about burnouts? (&!@*#&(*&!@*(#&*(& *censored* I can't even get my real feelings to you because of that "big PC". How.... happy.

[@robinpage2730]

Lol Victorian era wealth inequality wasn't nearly as bad as today.

[@Yellow.1844]

Ye it sucks, i worked in blue collar jobs, warehouses, retail during my studies and it was a dream for many to even own a home one day (in Canada) while I would meet people that would buy their first home while in college because their parent were rich. I met one girl tho that did it on her own by working full time while full time studying so theres that but even then she didnt pay rent because she lived with her mom so it helped her immensly

[@Emma_1721]

This video came at the perfect time, I’ve been under a lot of pressure recently and have been feeling really lost because I have just so much to do and haven’t been as productive. Instead of actually resting I would constantly feel guilty for not being productive. This video has helped me realize how much I valued other people’s opinions of me for being unproductive and how I much I feared I would loose value if I wasn’t constantly working to become better. Thank you ❤

[@gandalftheblonde770]

Use your PTO! I always had a terrible habit of waiting until I was completely miserable before I even thought about taking paid-leave. Having a random 3-day weekend always helps my sanity.

[@Accelerationist_Bolshevik]

hey! same dude for the pfp

[@gandalftheblonde770]

@@Accelerationist_Bolshevik real recognizes real

[@shploonsk]

I call those my eff it days... usually involves waking up in the morning, saying eff it, and no call no show. I make sure the boss is desperate for workers before pulling that little maneuver. Pay me min, you get min.

[@SeaSqueeze]

If one even gets PTO. Lots of job positions just don’t give any PTO. Even when they do it’s frowned upon to use it in too many workplaces. Even if you need it.

[@300thNPC]

​@@shploonsk Ngl thats a D-bag move. You're screwing your own colleagues when you can just give heads up

[@r2d2b3c4]

I absolutely hate my work too. I do just enough not to get too stressed. I genuinely couldn't give less shit how the company does. If I work harder - I get rewarded with more work. The companies success is not being shared at all. Also the office "life" with all it's gossip and pressure for absolutely no reason. To everyone reading - preserve yourself. No need to start being malign in your work - just do barely enough to stay afloat at your job and that's it. There is absolutely no incentive to work harder anymore. Let the shareholders pull the company forward, not you. I hate modern life. Fuck this shit.

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

"Rewarded with more work" Seriously! This sentance alone reveals so many problems

[@krischi2434]

Bro where do you work?

[@minniemoe4797]

I remember interviews that 1950's when the employees say "if you work hard, you get a pay rise" 😀

[@DRCRE99]

Agree with all of this. I’ve been saying for the past couple years that we here in America have a problem of hyper-individualism. That people think of others far too little. We’re still humans and social beings after all. Our actions as individuals do not exist in a vacuum. They do affect others in some way shape or form, whether for better or otherwise. And while people often say “as strong as the weakest link,” they just as often overlook that we’re linked together to begin with

[@Jake_The_Bake]

@@DRCRE99 cool

[@BrooksKricheldorf]

People hate working 9-5s is because your great grand pappy was only making .25-$2.00 and hour back in the day but you can live off of the wages back then. My dad was born in the 60s-70s right, making $3.50 and hour, roughly $235-$255 after two weeks but the thing is you could live off of $600-$700 dollars a month back then, today you can't even wipe your ass front to back with that. That's why people hate slaving away at companies that don't care about them. Besides 401ks and pensions being a trap now. Thank your government and society for letting it get to this point.

[@conlawmeateater8792]

401k is a cheaper retirement plan than pension.

[@BrooksKricheldorf]

@@conlawmeateater8792 it doesn't matter man, they're not worth it now.

[@kumaye9446]

​@@conlawmeateater8792if you can find a job that offers it. Ive worked 4 jobs and none had 401k

[@jamesjoelholmes4541]

I burned out years ago before I encountered Han. His words made all the sense in the world to me. In recent years I've made it my priority to value my relationships with others, more than my relationship with myself. And it has made all the difference. We live in an absurd world, and while we may not be able to change things on the grand scale . . . We may have a chance to make a difference right around us, with the people we love and those right within our vicinity. Thank you for these thoughtful philosophical insights. I love your essays.

[@ProtagonistsPen]

I just got back from work. And though I work as children’s writer, I still have no energy after to do anything productive with my life after getting home though in the morning I am always adamant of changing it! This video was a wake up call to go and study!

[@zippagraphics]

So how do you find the energy to go and study when you have to work yourself into numbness to pay bills?

[@ProtagonistsPen]

@@zippagraphics I have created a schedule where my study time is the time space I have before going to work. I wake up early and do it. Now, to be honest, I am so burned out, I have no energy to do anything. This morning though I did study a bit, It wasn't as much as I would like.

[@roberts7873]

Try working with your hands at an actual job. Then tell me how tired you are.

[@ProtagonistsPen]

@@roberts7873 There was never a compedition about who works the hardest. Doesn't everyone's work matter? Never meant to offend you. Have a good day, Robert! ❤

[@themaninabucket8365]

@@roberts7873Does your percieved greater suffering bring you some twisted kind of solace?

[@westonhodge5329]

People think I’m crazy for choosing a career in public school teaching, especially with a degree in computer science. But hear me out: teach at a high school where your principal is never up in your business, the majority of the kids want to get their work done as quickly as possible and not cause a scene, and their parents are mostly absent from involvement therefore are not constantly up your butt. I work from 7 to 3:30, then I can go home, not bringing anything home with me. I get all weekends off, a week off in fall, a week off in spring, and all major holidays off, PLUS 10 more discretionary days off to take as needed. I make $63k plus a stipend for teaching math. In my humble opinion, you can’t find a better work-life balance for that kind of money in today’s work culture!!

[@michalhaninec6230]

I am in love with your gesticulation and body language. Such an outstanding rethoric skills. Very rare to see. Good luck

[@skos-xn7pd]

This is why philosophy exists ❤ I appreciate this life-explaining applicable direction you took in this essay I quit this mindset, I am 23, happy to have a longer life after all those years

[@mikeking9373]

Joe, you're always good, but today, really good and spot on. Thanks!

[@unsolicitedadvice9198]

Ah thank you! That is really kind

[@Freethinkin14]

If I'm home , I can spend hours splitting firewood, milling lumber, working on my truck , and whatever other random labor intensive projects around the homestead that need to be done. I do it with joy ! I love working at home and for the homestead. The other 40 hours spent at my actual weekly job aren't necessarily terrible but there is absolutely no comparison to working at my home..... Maybe it's because I need to be running my own business. My mind gets burnt out very fast at working for others.

[@berniepina860]

I have suffered from perfectionism for a long time. It's a miserable life. You end up hating yourself no matter what you do and how hard you try. Do your best but understand there is more to life than being "perfect"

[@shenanikenz]

Thank you for this. I’ve quietly felt this way about labor my entire adult life. Hearing your perspective is both validating and infuriating. We all really do feel the same way and it’s time we do something about it.

[@lobsterwithhisshouldersbac8368]

Work is good for people. The problem is companies expect the world from you and give nothing in return. Day after day of getting screwed over and knowing you are getting screwed over but not having any other option but survival is tiring.

[@iLegionaire3755]

One of the most underappreciated videos on all of KZbin. This man is speaking facts.

[@T-KRD]

@23:37 true for me, and i'm exhausted, its not about achievement though - its about survival - keeping the job, the shelter, the family, not being a burden, cooperating within the structure of society

[@scoodler]

Same. I find it interesting that so many vloggers talk about overworking as a result of too much personal ambition and pressure from within, when in fact, the cost of housing and other basic necessities has made overworking mandatory. I guess we have the "choice" to go homeless, but that sounds terrifying to me..

[@harp-692]

good cut... you are not only eloquent but youre also able to convey it via video as clearly as possible

[@Wiggs75]

Listening to this on a Saturday morning, thinking about next week’s work…

[@themeekwarrior]

This puts into words what I have been feeling boiling inside of me for years. It is so eloquent. But it brings me no comfort, because nothing will ultimately be done to make things right.

[@thefoofanman]

Everyones is playing the same game, presenting perfect pristine porcelain versions of themselves in pixelated personal profiles! Perfectly put! :)

[@kw5961]

We question why birthrates are collapsing. Alienation and burnout. Overworked, underpaid, separated from everyone else.

[@asyaejderha8421]

i'm leaving a comment because i find Han's essay to be very interesting and true. I'll occasionally come back to remind myself that what we want in life isnt money to buy those things but rather TIME to actually enjoy them. Thank you for this amazing video!

[@tartanedRose]

17:50 that was a slap in the face. Because that's exactly what it is. It's just two days to "recharge" while still thinking about the next week, not even really relaxing because 'we've only got two days and on Monday this and that is due and this meeting and that email'

[@JA-bf9ph]

Crazy how this guy is able to consistently post comprehensive videos like these in a short period of time.

[@LeRoiJojo]

He must be really productive! 😎

[@zachbohemian]

We should unite and boldly declare our weariness with the status quo, just as the French once did. Many choose compliance over resistance, despite living in a society that cherishes the American Dream and Freedom. We shouldn't have to put up with this bullshit because of the hubris of the few that overshadow the many

[@fl-ri-]

The French revolution was a disaster bro you do not want it to reoccur.

[@harmonymoxham1719]

I'm in if you are. I just want to be able to take time off to rest without feeling bad

[@zachbohemian]

​@@harmonymoxham1719true that. I'm definitely in

[@iamreiver]

Back when my father first got an entry level construction job, he was paid 100 something dollars per week. That was enough to purchase an ounce of gold. Now, I have to work an entire month to be able to afford an ounce of gold. My labor is worth 4 TIMES LESS than my father's was. So, fuck it! I'm not going to work anymore.

[@extendedlimits]

I mean we're not on the gold standard anymore so I'm not sure what the correlation is😅

[@VideosNoOne]

​​@@extendedlimits he is probably talking about the price stability of gold. There is a really old saying that goes somewhat: "an ounce of gold can buy a good men's suit". Gold generally keeps pace with inflation and retains value. So in this case he used gold to describe the stagnating wages and how much less actual purchasing power people have today compared to the 70's and 80's.

[@Alex-tc5kh]

@@extendedlimits way to miss the point

[@extendedlimits]

@@VideosNoOne Except stagnating wages isn't the only reason we can't buy as much gold as our grandparents could. It's just not an example I would have used.

[@claydoub]

"we've gone further than making work a virtue, we've made leisure a vice" that one hit

[@jojn9082]

My New favourite KZbinr. Thank you for this video 🙏💙 This video explains why I hate the phrase " Have a productive day" While doing your work professionally and wholeheartedly is a must to justify the financial gain, it is just as damaging as it is significant, especially when you feel that you've become an automated person with no sense of time.

[@katie9545]

“We compete for attention as the currency of our self esteem.” 😮‍💨

[@floycewhite6991]

100% female response.

[@ripmasta4evr]

I feel like I can't stop though. I'm already working 50 hours with patients that don't give a damn about me and I want to go back to school, learn coding, and find something more suited to me. But goddamn after dealing with people for over 12 hours a day, I just want to lay down. I'm exhausted yet the voice in my head tells me to work harder, teach myself coding, no gaming, grind away until I make it. I'm exhausted.

[@mnk9073]

Funny thing is we have long reached the capability of being a post-scarcity society. If we only produced what we needed and distributed that equally we could easily work three 6 hour days and be done with it. The problem is corporations wouldn't be able to generate massive profits so they create artificial scarcity by destroying huge amounts of perfectly good products every day, from food to foot wear. Whenever the question arose should we use progress to benefit the few or the many, the answer was always the few. Automatisation is the perfect example: A textile factory employed 100 women on old school looms, producing 1000 shirts every 8-hour day, now you get them modern automatic looms who let 100 women produce 2000 shirts in an 8 hour day. What was the reaction? Employing them for 4 hour-days so they can enjoy life? Or firing 50 women so you could add their wages to your profit? Exactly...

[@alena-qu9vj]

The still bigger problem is that that with less occupation and exhaustion from work we could begin to ask the more important questions - like who owns the world and what could we do with it.

[@TrickerDK8]

What an awesome analysis. One of the best KZbin videos I've ever seen - you're so much on point. Thank you for your time for putting things into perspective! Cheers.

[@bryanpratt5850]

I think I’m going to have to watch this a few times. There’s a lot here and I’m grateful for it. Thank you for articulating well what so many of us are feeling.

[@darialifar]

I’m a psychiatrist. I live in a country where doctors make less than nail techs, that’s why I’ve been working 3-4 jobs at once during the past 1.5 years. No days off for months. And while genuinely loving my job, there’s lots of stress surrounding working conditions. This lead me to the state, where I had to be brought to the hospital by an ambulance due to the seizures and me stopping breathing. Imagine being a patient for your own colleagues. Not only this experience was scary, it was also very humiliating, like I’m not good enough to be an ambulance doc. So whenever you feel burnt out, please take into consideration my story and take a much needed break, otherwise your body is the one what’s going to break.

[@arenomusic]

How do you even have time to write a comment this well thought out

[@darialifar]

@@arenomusic why, thank you 😌 I guess, being a certified yapper extrapolates to foreign languages

[@JackShen]

Too many people are stuck in the loop of just barely making it to the next paycheck, so in your off time, you can't afford to do much. They aren't able to invest so there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

[@CyBunny05]

My father wants me to pursue Computer Engineering so I can get a good paying job and not have to worry about moneu, and I've hated every second of it. With this scholarship that is far from attainable at this point and the constant hammering that my free time should be spent studying so I can work more efficiently and the fact that I hate whatever it is that I'm doing really dug me into this hole where so many assignments ate overdue and/or up to quality. This video helped me understand why I feel this way, but surprisingly doesn't help me feel better about myself or my life. I need actual advice so I can live and not just survive

[@michellebudziszewski8242]

In America we have to work full time to be eligible for healthcare. Unlike other countries where healthcare is a human right here we must work to be worthy of receiving it.

[@jesterofwoe420]

I've worked for corporations for yrs in the food business. Moved to Florida. Ended up applying at a family owned furniture store that used to be a farm. I pick up sticks. I cut grass. I build furniture. I pet horse. Life is good. Way better than modern bs.

[@starvinmarvin7964]

Im beyond burnout and just ready to check out now. Im done with this reality, i never asked for this.

[@cioata_official]

yea... me too...

[@amampathak]

This is the BEST video I've seen in a long long time, thank you my friend!!

[@mischake]

I have a manual labor job, working a wrench and a blowtorch in a steel factory, it's mostly simple repetitive stuff and i am absolutely fine with that. You know what I actually do all day? Brainstorm the story I'm writing. Almost each day I am plotting out a new chapter. And i get home and a I have so much stuff to put to paper and it's great. I am buzzing daily with excitement worked up at my job as I'm doing a simple job that doesn't require too much attention. Put your mind to it no matter what you're actually doing

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

Love this video! Subscribed. I pretty much always hated work, except for a few years when I did something creative that I enjoyed - but even that turned into a grind. I've thought for a long time that productivity was highly over-rated and these people that brag about how many hours a week they work are insane (or mislead is probably a better word). I'm so glad my company "early retired" me ( a mass layoff due to our company being sold out). When you're over 50, you're pretty much dead meat. I took the memo and moved to Europe. Glad I was a saver.

[@mr.coolmug3181]

Treat work as a means to an end. Have a professional attitude. Remember that the people you work for are not your friends even when they pretend to be, to make you work more hours. Learn to say no. Don't allow work to become personal, or a substitute for an absence of relationships. A good relationship with yourself is the basis of all good relationships with others.

[@Dasharya]

Your videos just keep getting better and better. Keep at it!!

[@gerhardweiss34]

Talking about "The American Dream"! "'Because You have to be asleep to believe it!" George Carlin

[@maym8849]

Wow, that really clears up why i hate myself so much, can never do right in my own eyes, and constantly feel like a failure!

[@doom1509]

Short answer on "is work slowly killing us?" Yes. We no longer simply clock out and go about our lives. We take our work home. We think of work in the shower.. we complain about it on the internet... and then we're told that this is normal. There's a reason why everyone has a smart phone now. The only ones who are somewhat exempt of this are factory workers.. but the trade off is beyond inhumane working conditions. I would be ready to say that this is all in the effort of keeping big pharma rich. "Don't worry so much, here, take some pills"

[@Fear_the_Nog]

I'm essentially working 24/7. When I'm not working, I'm still running a subroutine in the back of my mind to canvas anything that can help me with coming up with ideas or bettering my project plans or finding some tool to leverage for a process that might eliminate waste or increase efficiency of a mechanism we're developing at my company. I do this even on my vacations and the Holidays. I'm also sometimes on-call for business during holidays, because not every country share the same Holidays and someone has to cover business needs, and I handle a couple regions. At some point, there is really no such thing as work/life "balance." It's really just trying to ensure the marathon doesn't devolve into sprints that will break my back.

[@Moodymuse60]

I have to admit I've had an addiction to my work at time's I've let it take over my whole life. I think I may even have mistaken my character as my job for many year's, thinking this is what I am instead of working on who i am. I'm working on who I am more . Thanks for uploading as always very interesting ❤

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

Yes working on self is work too