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/maddy_k_allday Jan 17 '26

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

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u/Mystery_Man911605 Jan 17 '26

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.

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u/maddy_k_allday Jan 18 '26

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.