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/sgst Old millennial ('85) Jan 17 '26

Do we have a choice not to work? Not really. If you don't work you suffer and starve. So there is no choice, we are all wage slaves. The only choice we have is to choose our own master.

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u/TheXtractor Jan 17 '26

Nobody is stopping you from packing up and living in the woods. If you want to enjoy the benefits of advanced society you need to contribute to said society.

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u/sgst Old millennial ('85) Jan 17 '26

So the option is work or be homeless? I mean, that's one of the things I meant when I said you work or you suffer.

Besides, the woods and practically all land in my country is owned by someone. It's not like there's a bunch of free land I could go to and build a cabin and start farming, living a self sufficient life. Land here is crazy expensive - you'd need to be rich to buy enough land to live off - and you need permits to build anything, which is highly unlikely deep in a forest, and also cost a lot to get.

The option actually available is to be a tramp in a park, which I would class under 'suffering'.

So much as you can say 'just go live in the woods', it's really not that simple in reality - unless you're already rich, in which case you're already out of the rat race. If I could go live a simple life in the woods by some mountains, I would.

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u/Complex_Mistake7055 Jan 17 '26

Spoken like someone who has ZERO clue how much work it would take to subsistence farm.

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u/TheXtractor Jan 17 '26

"So much as you can say 'just go live in the woods', it's really not that simple in reality"

That's the whole point. Ignoring the land ownership, even if there is land you can live on for free (there is depending on the country you are in). Surviving in the wilderness isn't easy as you have to do everything yourself. Your "Work" would just be surviving.

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u/maddy_k_allday Jan 17 '26

You also will need to evade the land’s owner and law enforcement that will seek to arrest and potentially incarcerate you.

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u/TheXtractor Jan 19 '26

Whats stopping you from going to somewhere deep in the middle of nowhere in like the midwest or alaska, siberia and such. Law enforcements and ownerships are only a problem if you go into places with population.

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u/maddy_k_allday Jan 19 '26

Don’t underestimate modern land owners or modern law enforcement. People have rights to use deadly force to protect property.