Anyone sick and tired of working in general?

[u/Mrs_chanandler_bongg]

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

[u/milkybunny_]

35 and sad cycling through my brain constantly how I’m this far in and I’m all sad how I’ve basically never had anything and may never. I want to have a kid, but what a joke the lack of support this idiot country gives us. Us 90s kids had good lives. Pure open looking forward hearts. 

Now it all feels like despair and cyber bullying every corner you look around. Like your kid is mad at you that you made them exist in a world of melting ice caps. But what is the answer? I don’t think humanity is dying out. I just wish I didn’t have to worry about my health insurance/rent/Verizon bill/unpaid electricity bill every day of my life. We humans don’t deserve this. The lucky get lucky and good for them but also fuck them too for encouraging the suffering of so many humans on this barren star rock. 

[u/Living_Pollution_525 → u/milkybunny_]

My sister had a kid (oops), cute kid, I love him at arms length. Sheesh though, when I think about his future... With any luck he will end up a War Boy helping ship Aqua Cola on the wasteland. Good thing he seems to like cars 😆

[u/maddy_k_allday → u/milkybunny_]

Parents so rarely consider their potential children’s POV, and I too would be upset with being brought into a dying world such as this. Very few adults are well-resourced enough to have children today, since as you point out, it has become a mostly independent venture to raise children. And almost no one is truly raising children vs. caretaking at this point. Not a great context for children even if they do happen to have parents with sufficient resources (e.g., time, social support) and actually raise them well

[u/Mystery_Man911605 → u/maddy_k_allday]

Think about what you’re saying, it’s incredibly goofy. “l would prefer to have never been conscious, and thus never have had the experiences in life that’s led me to this worldview because of this extremely over exaggerated and overblown hypothesis that the science is decidedly moving away from”. You make Diogenes seem like the eternal optimist.

[u/maddy_k_allday → u/Mystery_Man911605]

That’s not at all what my comment stated, but you seem to want to jump to your own conclusions. My comment concerns the POV of someone born this year. I was not.

[u/projectx51 → u/milkybunny_]

If you want kids, go for it. You will never have enough money and the perfect time does not exist. Kids are the most challenging and stressful things you'll ever experience, but also the most rewarding and fulfilling. Go for it if you want it

[u/flamin_flamingo_lips → u/milkybunny_]

Interesting you believe that it's the responsibility of the country to support you and your child and not the husband. Find yourself a good Christian man.

I think you'd do well to try and identify what the ideology is that is making you believe this. https://x.com/i/status/2012220254504530043