Current Events > Is this all there is to life...? Go to work, go home. Rinse. Repeat.

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MFBKBass5 posted...

vbty3 posted...

What do you do?

Im a teacher. Specifically, my job isnt awful. I get paid pretty well. Dont teach a core subject either so I dont deal with most BS regular teachers have to mess with.

Not so much about my job specifically. More like...should the vast majority of my life be dedicated to making money so I can pay off student loan debt. I just feel like a slave to the system. As cheesy and cliche as that is.

That's because you are essentially an indentured servant. To the banks and the state.
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It's the same thing for everyone man. I'm on disability and every day I wake up trying to realize my dream of having financial freedom which is essentially freedom in the 21st century. I watch TV, am on the phone, have no friends who want to associate with me, I have a fiance that's a + but I live with my parents and I think she has a bit of a problem as well. At the end of the day I'm on repeat, slowly getting older, taking meds to keep me sane because I'm a puppet to my psychiatrist. I have money, but I've pretty much done a lot of the cool things I've wanted to do already minus a few things that seem unachievable. I really don't know what to do with myself to be honest. I'm lonely as hell, and it's only getting worse. I get so happy at the sound of a notification on my phone, but they're usually updates for an app or something which end up making me sadder. You can usually work on disability, but if you work SS finds out and they give you a bunch of extra work to do you're better off not working at all on disability or doing cash jobs, but I can't work anything right since I get a suffocating feeling and start dry heaving and throwing up if a situation is stressful. Sometimes I just want to take all the pills I have at once, mix them with the vodka I have in the fridge and down it and hope for the best, but I've been down plenty of times in since my mental illness kicked in and I always get back up, but yeah, I can't for the life of me find purpose or something to really motivate me to keep on this routine that's going to last at least another 40 years.

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SaithSayer posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

"Why can't I just sit at home and play video games all day! It's not FAIR"

This is what happens when parents don't make their kids work a month or so out of each summer vacation. That shit should start at 13 or 14 and stay that way. I'm talking about a JOB and not household chores. Those start sooner.

If you don't have to work any the whole time you're growing up and then you graduate, move out and get a job, you're gonna think "THIS is what life is?! I'd rather be fuckin' dead!"

That's a bad thing.

I have bad news for you

That wouldn't make a difference because guess what? Nobody likes working

Plenty of people enjoy their jobs, but even still....being used to it so it doesn't bother you is better than being thrown into being employed and having to do something you can't stand several hours 5 days a week.

Earn enough from a 9 to 5 that you can invest and then have a much more exciting if difficult life. Basically if you dont inherit a solid chunk of money or have the odd knack for continually making money from entertainment, thats your best bet.
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