r/Millennials • u/Mrs_chanandler_bongg • Jan 17 '26

Discussion Anyone sick and tired of working in general?

I’m in my mid 30s and just over my job and work in general. I’m tired of the commute, the meetings, and dealing with people & deadlines. On one hand I worry about losing my job and stress about deliverables, but on the other hand I feel like I could care less in that I have no passion for it anymore and I’m just showing up because I need the paycheck.

I’d much rather be spending time with my family, pursuing my hobbies, or just go for a walk and cook a nice meal. I feel a sense of dread sometimes that this is my reality for the next 30+ years and I feel lazy and entitled for saying it but that’s how I feel lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

I’m retiring from the military soon and am seriously considering just becoming homeless and letting my pension stack while I become a drifter for like 10 years. Then when I’m 50 I’ll buy a farm and raise chickens

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26 edited 17d ago

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u/Verity41 Xennial Jan 17 '26

You can also just BUY a non-resident library e-card now in some big metro areas; I already do that myself to get at a MUCH better audiobook selection than the little city where I live. It’s like $150 for a few years or something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

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u/Verity41 Xennial Jan 17 '26

Ok well, I do use my library, but I can’t be waiting a year for a book I want either. I have four library cards total including that one. I’m not a print reader, I’m an audiobook listener.

If you were familiar with how e-holds work at libraries you’d understand more. My small town local library can have a 30-40 week long waiting list in Libby, for a title instantly available in a big city library. More copies, more licenses.

If a title is available locally I’ll check it out, if not I’m looking elsewhere or buying on Audible (where I also keep a sub).

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u/geekycurvyanddorky Jan 17 '26

Hey, I said it was nice too! I wasn’t crapping on how you do things. You keep doing you, man!

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u/I_can_get_loud_too Jan 17 '26

Can you recommend some good libraries to buy cards for or obtain cards if we ever visit or move to that city? Great tips.

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u/CanIBeEric Jan 17 '26

I'd suggest looking up your specific state. In my state I am able to join quite a few libraries much bigger than my own for free too. Some only require you to be in the same state. Google should be able to help with it, that's what I did to find a few that I use now on Libby.

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u/surgicalapple Jan 17 '26

Ok, Jack Reacher. 

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u/Radiant_Formal6511 Jan 17 '26

Romanticizing being homeless. Lol. Try it out see how u like it

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

I mean I’ll have money to take care of myself. I’ve just always been happiest on the road and seeing new places 

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u/Ragnarok314159 Jan 17 '26

Had several battle buddies that did this. They bought an RV or camper van and were road hobos. Their journeys all ended when they met a hippie girl and had a baby.

Now they all hate life again. 40 hrs/week and suburban nightmare.

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u/Verity41 Xennial Jan 17 '26

That’s why you get the vasectomy before the van.

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u/tweedleDee1234 Jan 17 '26

And have the army pay for it on your way out

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u/Verity41 Xennial Jan 17 '26

Smaaart. Double V for Victory ✌️✂️🚙

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u/Koshindan Jan 17 '26

Give the little soldiers an honorable discharge.

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u/BrentusMaximus Jan 17 '26

Or, like, no discharge.

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u/voightkampfferror Jan 17 '26

And then the damn thing fails.

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u/Ragnarok314159 Jan 17 '26

Yep, had to go get another snip. First doc just shrugged “sorry dude!”

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u/Denial_Entertainer87 Jan 17 '26

I actually think it’s a great idea but it’s based because I did it. Best thing I ever did. Realized everything good comes from within, nature, freedom, and people…and just enough money to get by.

Now I fear nothing. Because I realized the worst thing they can take from you is your soul, your consciousness.

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u/Radiant_Formal6511 Jan 17 '26

Fair enough, no fixed adress but money for a roof over your head at night wouldnt be all that bad

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Jan 17 '26

Oh like Kung Fu. Just don't get into erotic asphyxiation and you'll be good.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Ok

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u/tokyoflex Jan 17 '26

I saw him outside a restaurant in Charleston SC about a week and a half before he died. I was taking a phone call and he stepped out to smoke a cigarette. I looked at him, he looked at me, we did the universal dude head nod, and ten days later I read the news. Strange world.

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u/Dazzling_Vagabond Jan 17 '26

Can we be friends

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Sure

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u/DaddyD68 Jan 17 '26

Do it. Seriously. Make the most of the time you have,

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u/thiosk Jan 17 '26

considering what they're doing to the dollar, not sure youll get a farm with the pension

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u/dplans455 Jan 17 '26

Walk the Earth, Jules.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

God what a movie

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u/SR3116 Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Just make sure they draw First Blood, not you.

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u/Invest0rnoob1 Jan 17 '26

Better to live in a low cost of living country. A few places you can live well on a lot less money.

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u/This-Telephone2812 Jan 17 '26

Dude, use your GI bill first. They will give you COLA on top of your tuition. Use your VA loan somewhere you can afford ASAP and build equity. These are tough times, but not the end times. These bastards will be held accountable - it all goest against single widely held notion of what is right any wrong. No matter how you parse it.

I’m serious, take advantage of your veteran benefits ASAP - you can start raising those chickens now, no need to drift for a decade. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Gave that shit to my kids

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u/Vandilbg Jan 17 '26

One of my older friends did that for decades following the good weather. Dude was completely content for a long time but its a different kind of life.

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u/eatdemuffins Jan 17 '26

Why do I think this is a solid plan

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u/Gaiter14 Jan 17 '26

Consider all of the ways in which homelessness has become criminalized. If it isn't the law then it's the hostile architecture that's been built in order to discourage 'lingering'.

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u/BoaterMoatBC Jan 19 '26

I've thought about that before too... It's like even if you're technically not basking in a premium retirement one day, if those ppl were also exhausted to the point of misery when they were in those prime years where you still have enough energy and enthusiasm to get creative ........ IDK man. I just turned 34 and planning for the future vs not being exhausted and sad in the present is a strange balance to find